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Lost in Translation: Climate Denial and the Return of the Political

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  • Gert Goeminne

    (Gert Goeminne is a Postdoctoral Fellow of the Research Foundation, Flanders, and is affiliated with the Centre Leo Apostel for Interdisciplinary Studies (Vrije Universiteit Brussels) and the Centre for Sustainable Development (Ghent University).)

Abstract

In this deliberately provocative commentary, I interrogate the relationship between two critical perspectives on the one-sided scientific framing of the climate issue: a constructivist interpretation of climate modeling on the one hand and the debate in political theory on the depoliticization of the public sphere on the other. I argue how they could be tied together in order to provide an enriched understanding of climate denial as a symptom rather than a cause of dysfunctional climate politics. It is my claim that in attempting to translate the universal validity of scientific knowledge into the contours of an inclusive, consensual negotiation model, the constitutive role of exclusion in the emergence of scientific objectivity is overlooked. © 2012 by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

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  • Gert Goeminne, 2012. "Lost in Translation: Climate Denial and the Return of the Political," Global Environmental Politics, MIT Press, vol. 12(2), pages 1-8, May.
    • Handle: RePEc:tpr:glenvp:v:12:y:2012:i:2:p:1-8
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    Cited by:

    1. Anneleen Kenis, 2019. "Post-politics contested: Why multiple voices on climate change do not equal politicisation," Environment and Planning C, , vol. 37(5), pages 831-848, August.
    2. Rolf Lidskog & Göran Sundqvist, 2015. "When Does Science Matter? International Relations Meets Science and Technology Studies," Global Environmental Politics, MIT Press, vol. 15(1), pages 1-20, February.
    3. Bård Lahn, 2018. "In the light of equity and science: scientific expertise and climate justice after Paris," International Environmental Agreements: Politics, Law and Economics, Springer, vol. 18(1), pages 29-43, February.
    4. Anneleen Kenis, 2021. "Clashing Tactics, Clashing Generations: The Politics of the School Strikes for Climate in Belgium," Politics and Governance, Cogitatio Press, vol. 9(2), pages 135-145.

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    Keywords

    climate denial; climate politics;

    JEL classification:

    • Q54 - Agricultural and Natural Resource Economics; Environmental and Ecological Economics - - Environmental Economics - - - Climate; Natural Disasters and their Management; Global Warming

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