Haste : the slow politics of climate urgency /: the slow politics of climate urgency. (2023)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Håvard Haarstad, Jakob Grandin, Kristin Kjærås, Eleanor Johnson.
• Editors: Haarstad, Håvard; Grandin, Jakob; Kjærås, Kristin; Johnson, Eleanor
• Contents: List of figures; List of tables List of contributors Acknowledgements ; 1 Why the haste? Introduction to the slow politics of climate urgency Håvard Haarstad, Jakob Grandin, Kristin Kjærås and Eleanor Johnson ; Part I: Climate apocalypse and radical utopias 2 'The apocalypse is disappointing': traversing the ecological fantasy; Erik Swyngedouw ; 3 From architectures of capital to architectures of care: the arts of dreaming otherwise in the Oslo Architecture Triennale Cecilie Sachs Olsen ; 4 Extinction Rebellion and the future city Emma Arnold ; 5 The urgency of hope and responses to contemporary crises Marikken Wullf-Wathne and Kristin Kjærås ; Part II: Learning the politics of urgency 6 Negation, imagination and organisation: rethinking sustainability transitions as a question of popular education; Keri Facer ; 7 ‘Right here, right now’: Immediacy, space and publicness in the politics of climate crisis Eugene McCann ; 8 Carefully transforming our institutions: how they change, how they listen Scott Bremer and Eleanor Johnson ; 9 Experimenting ecological civilization on the ground: the green transformation of a resource-based city in China Ping Huang and Xiaohui Hu ; Part III: Countering alienation under rapid change; 10 The good, the bad and the beautiful? The role of aesthetics in low-carbon consumption Jesse Schrage ; 11 Sustainability from the ground: urban gardening with children as means to environmental change; Sofia Cele ; 12 Refashioning the supercyclical city Eleanor Johnson ; 13 Environmental injustices unfold in urban sustainability projects in Istanbul Mahir Yazar ; 14 Inclusive sustainability: gaming as a tool for participation in urgent planning Tarje I. Wanvik and Håvard H. Bjørnstad ; Part IV: Contesting the speed of urban change 15 Small measures, large change: the promise and peril of incremental urbanisation; Andrew Karvonen and Jonas Bylund ; 16 Make way for efficiency: sustainable mobility and the politics of speed Jakob Grandin ; 17 The geography of the 'world greenest cities': a class-based critique Ståle Holgersen ; 18 Climate imaginaries for urgent urban transformations Håvard Haarstad ; Part V: Temporalities of infrastructural change 19 Periphery everywhere; AbdouMaliq Simone ; 20 Reimagining urban innovation Matthew Cook ; 21 Promises and contradictions of digital sustainability in the post-pandemic city Chiara Certomà ; 22 People’s Republic of Energy: rethinking the possible in energy futures Hannah Knox, Jonathan Atkinson and Britt Jurgensen ; 23 Solar spectacles: why Lisbon’s solar projects matter for energy transformation Siddharth Sareen ; Index
• Edition: 1st
• Publisher Details: London : UCL Press
• Publication Date: 2023
• Extent: 1 online resource, illustrations (colour)
• Subjects: 363.738742; Climatic changes -- Political aspects; Climatic changes -- Social aspects; Climatic changes -- Government policy; Sustainable development
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781800083318; 9781800083288
• Related ISBNs: 9781800083301; 9781800083295
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