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| DOI | 10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2015.09.008 |
| "It won't be any good to have democracy if we don't have a country": Climate change and the politics of synecdoche in the Maldives | |
| Hirsch E. | |
| 发表日期 | 2015 |
| ISSN | 0959-3780 |
| 卷号 | 35 |
| 英文摘要 | Critical attention has recently turned to the climate change "synecdoche": a place uniquely exposed to the environmental consequences of climate crisis, such as sea-level rise, that becomes a stand-in for the global crisis as a whole and a harbinger of more widespread disaster. The Maldives, which scientists, politicians, and activists predict could be completely submerged by 2100, filled that role between the 2008 inauguration of Mohamed Nasheed, the country's first democratically elected president after years of authoritarian rule, and his 2012 ouster. This ethnography of the Maldivian challenge to climate change asks how claiming a geopolitical identity as the world's "canary in the coalmine" fostered an emerging internal political culture. I argue that arming climate change solutions became a state-making device in the Maldives, whose fragile coral atoll ecosystem itself became the synecdoche of a young democracy. Between 2008 and 2012, how was environmental knowledge creation understood as a democratic activity? To answer this question, I draw on ethnographic interview testimony and participant-observation in Malé, the Maldivian capital, with politicians, activists, and city residents, as well as an analysis of the Nasheed administration's public rhetoric. The article centers on the case of Bluepeace, the country's oldest environmental NGO, which has seen significant international publicity. Following Bluepeace's efforts to help the Maldives achieve carbon neutrality by 2020-part of Nasheed's plan to end global climate change through exemplary national sacrifice-this article finds that climate problem solving and democracy were put to work for one another through small-scale mitigation and adaptation experiments. © 2015 Elsevier Ltd. |
| 英文关键词 | Climate change; Democracy; Environmentalism; Geopolitical identity; Maldives; Politics of knowledge |
| 学科领域 | atoll; authoritarianism; climate change; coal mine; democracy; environmentalism; ethnography; geopolitics; knowledge; nongovernmental organization; sea level change; spatiotemporal analysis; Maldives; Anthozoa |
| 语种 | 英语 |
| scopus关键词 | atoll; authoritarianism; climate change; coal mine; democracy; environmentalism; ethnography; geopolitics; knowledge; nongovernmental organization; sea level change; spatiotemporal analysis; Maldives; Anthozoa |
| 来源期刊 | Global Environmental Change
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| 文献类型 | 期刊论文 |
| 条目标识符 | http://gcip.llas.ac.cn/handle/2XKMVOVA/117442 |
| 作者单位 | The University of Chicago, 1126 East 59th Street, Chicago, IL 60637, United States |
| 推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | Hirsch E.. "It won't be any good to have democracy if we don't have a country": Climate change and the politics of synecdoche in the Maldives[J],2015,35. |
| APA | Hirsch E..(2015)."It won't be any good to have democracy if we don't have a country": Climate change and the politics of synecdoche in the Maldives.Global Environmental Change,35. |
| MLA | Hirsch E..""It won't be any good to have democracy if we don't have a country": Climate change and the politics of synecdoche in the Maldives".Global Environmental Change 35(2015). |
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