Searching for ‘the political’ in environmental politics
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- Anneleen Kenis (UGent) and Matthias Lievens
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- Situating the 'post-ecologist turn' within the framework of post-politics, we not only investigate why environmental issues are so easily represented in consensual and technocratic terms, but also seek avenues for repoliticisation. We thereby try to avoid the pitfall of a voluntaristic or substantively normative approach to what repoliticisation can mean. By pointing to the subtle polemic on a meta-level which lurks beneath even the most consensual discourse, a potential starting point for repoliticisation is uncovered, which also enables a political rereading of the 'post-ecologist turn'. Finally, we argue that the same characteristics that make the environmental question liable to depoliticisation can also turn it into a field of politicisation par excellence.
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- Environmental Science (miscellaneous), Sociology and Political Science, the political, post-politics, post-ecologism, climate change, repoliticisation, hegemony, RESEARCH AGENDA, CRITIQUE
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Please use this url to cite or link to this publication: http://hdl.handle.net/1854/LU-8699881
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- Kenis, Anneleen, and Matthias Lievens. “Searching for ‘the Political’ in Environmental Politics.” ENVIRONMENTAL POLITICS, vol. 23, no. 4, 2014, pp. 531–48, doi:10.1080/09644016.2013.870067.
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- Kenis, A., & Lievens, M. (2014). Searching for “the political” in environmental politics. ENVIRONMENTAL POLITICS, 23(4), 531–548. https://doi.org/10.1080/09644016.2013.870067
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- Kenis, Anneleen, and Matthias Lievens. 2014. “Searching for ‘the Political’ in Environmental Politics.” ENVIRONMENTAL POLITICS 23 (4): 531–48. https://doi.org/10.1080/09644016.2013.870067.
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- Kenis, Anneleen, and Matthias Lievens. 2014. “Searching for ‘the Political’ in Environmental Politics.” ENVIRONMENTAL POLITICS 23 (4): 531–548. doi:10.1080/09644016.2013.870067.
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- 1.Kenis A, Lievens M. Searching for “the political” in environmental politics. ENVIRONMENTAL POLITICS. 2014;23(4):531–48.
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- [1]A. Kenis and M. Lievens, “Searching for ‘the political’ in environmental politics,” ENVIRONMENTAL POLITICS, vol. 23, no. 4, pp. 531–548, 2014.
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