Taylor-Aiken, GP (2014) (Local-) community for global challenges: carbon conversations, transition towns and governmental elisions. Local Environment: the international journal of justice and sustainability. ISSN 1354-9839
Abstract
This article addresses the narrowing interpretation of community when governmentalised: that of community's elision with local. First it surveys five broad academic and policy interpretations of the community implied in low carbon transitions. These demonstrate the persistence of community's broad and open-ended polysemy today. Second it looks more closely at the role community plays in UK environmental governance today, including specific evidence from two such government-funded community initiatives used to meet global environmental challenges: Transition Towns and Carbon Conversations. Third it provides a critique of community governance-beyond-the-state. It argues that community used to “jump scales” in response to global challenges like climate change, is often at its most narrow: local and governmentalised. Doing so helps contextualise the governmentalisation of (local-) community in UK environmental governance. Often it is localised in order to delegate (perceived) agency and responsibility onto individual actors at a local level.
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Item Type: | Article |
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Keywords: | Community; transition; localism; transition towns; governmentality |
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Institution: | The University of Leeds |
Academic Units: | The University of Leeds > Faculty of Environment (Leeds) > School of Geography (Leeds) |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Publications |
Date Deposited: | 04 Feb 2014 16:08 |
Last Modified: | 15 Sep 2014 02:05 |
Published Version: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13549839.2013.870142 |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | Taylor and Francis |
Identification Number: | 10.1080/13549839.2013.870142 |
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Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:77609 |