Fox, N.J. orcid.org/0000-0003-2037-2664 and Alldred, P. (2021) Economics, the climate change policy-assemblage and the new materialisms: towards a comprehensive policy. Globalizations, 18 (7). pp. 1248-1258. ISSN 1474-7731
Abstract
Climate change policy is a contested field, with rival perspectives underpinning radically different policy propositions: from encouraging the market to innovate technical solutions to climate change through to the replacement of a market economy with an eco-socialist model. These differing policy options draw upon a variety of economic concepts and approaches, with significant consequent divergences in their policy recommendations. In this paper, we consider policy as assembled from a wide range of sociomaterial components – some human, others non-human. Using a ‘new materialist’ toolkit, we explore four contemporary climate change policies to unpack these policy-assemblages, and assess the different uses made of economics in each assemblage. We conclude that none of these contemporary policies is adequate to address climate change. Yet despite the incommensurability between how these disparate policies use economic concepts and theories, we suggest a materialist synthesis based on a comprehensive climate change policy-assemblage.
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © 2020 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. This is an author-produced version of a paper accepted for publication in Globalizations. Uploaded in accordance with the publisher's self-archiving policy. |
Keywords: | Economics; climate change policy; new materialisms |
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Institution: | The University of Sheffield |
Academic Units: | The University of Sheffield > Faculty of Medicine, Dentistry and Health (Sheffield) > School of Health and Related Research (Sheffield) > ScHARR - Sheffield Centre for Health and Related Research |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Sheffield |
Date Deposited: | 25 Mar 2021 11:41 |
Last Modified: | 17 Mar 2022 01:38 |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | Informa UK Limited |
Refereed: | Yes |
Identification Number: | 10.1080/14747731.2020.1807857 |
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Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:172555 |