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Carbon and Cash in Climate Assemblages: The Making of a New Global Citizenship

Arora-Jonsson, Seema; Westholm, Lisa; Petitt, Andrea; Temu, Beatus John

Abstract

Climate instruments such as REDD+ (Reducing Emissions by Deforestation and Degradation) promise a win-win proposition as villagers in Africa are paid for their efforts to conserve forests and sequester carbon. REDD+ assembles divergent interests at different scales-from bureaucrats to individual villagers. We argue that climate assemblages are shifting the space of the political by regulating practices that previously had local and national provenance. They are producing "state-like" effects that touch deeply on citizenship. Villagers are drawn into a shifting REDD+ assemblage and subject to new identifications as entrepreneurs and responsible environmental citizens, meant to look after a new global commons. We shift the discussion to deal seriously with questions of a "global" citizenship, not in its utopian sense, but by bringing into light the dark side of global citizenship already in practice in environmental governance. Forests and peoples are in practice made global-we must conceptualize the rights of this "global" citizenship

Keywords

carbon; cash; citizenship; climate assemblage; REDD

Published in

Antipode
2016, Volume: 48, number: 1, pages: 74-96
Publisher: WILEY-BLACKWELL

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        • Sustainable Development Goals

        SDG15 Protect, restore and promote sustainable use of terrestrial ecosystems, sustainably manage forests, combat desertification, and halt and reverse land degradation and halt biodiversity loss
        SDG16 Promote peaceful and inclusive societies for sustainable development, provide access to justice for all and build effective, accountable and inclusive institutions at all levels

        UKÄ Subject classification

        Human Geography

        Publication identifier

        DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/anti.12170

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        https://res.slu.se/id/publ/83102