Tina Sikka has written several other papers about geoengineering along similar lines: A critical discourse analysis of geoengineering advocacy - http://www.see.ed.ac.uk/~shs/Climate%20change/Geo-politics/Tina%20Sikkaa.pdf A critical theory of technology applied to the public discussion of geoengineering - http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0160791X12000073 Chris.
On Friday, September 27, 2013 9:11:25 AM UTC+1, andrewjlockley wrote: > http://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007%2F978-3-642-31110-9_35 > > Climate Change and Disaster Risk Management > Climate Change Management 2013, pp 535-551 > > An Analysis of the Connection Between Climate Change, Technological > Solutions and Potential Disaster Management: The Contribution of > Geoengineering Research > > Tina Sikka > > Abstract > > In this article, the author uses a critical political economy approach to > provide a basic topology of the current state of geoengineering research, > funding and testing. The central argument is that the material and > discursivemonopolisation of geoengineering research and discussion by elite > groups—political, economic and scientific-technological—has led to the > marginalisation of the public from this debate and has presented a > distorted view of its (geoengineering’s) need. Its connection to the main > theme of this conference is located in the very clear nexus between climate > change, the potentially disastrous outcomes of increased global warming and > an examination of the potentially equally dangerous consequences of > technologically intensive solutions (like geoengineering) that do not > address but disregard the core problem: overconsumption based a > resource-extractive and energy-intensive economic system. This piece begins > with a brief introduction to geoengineering technologies. I then outline > the critical political economy approach which is, at its core, a > historically and socially reflexive method that focuses on unpacking the > “production and reproduction of…structures” (Mosco 1996, 29) of privilege, > followed by a brief justification of why it is pertinent in this context. > Following this, the author delivers a critical snapshot of some of the most > striking, and simultaneously troubling, geoengineering research currently > taking place worldwide. The paper ends with a call for the public to get > aggressively involved in learning about geoengineering and engaging in > critically informed geoengineering activism, both online and offline > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "geoengineering" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/geoengineering. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
