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Heterotopia and the urban politics of climate change experimentation

Edwards, G.A.S.; Bulkeley, H.A.

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G.A.S. Edwards



Abstract

Seeking to govern the city in relation to climate change is a political project that at once imagines the present in terms of the future and the future in terms of the present. The urban politics of climate change has brought multiple visions of the possibilities (and limits) of urban futures. In this context, we find urban responses taking experimental form – creating sites through which to explore and experience different futures. They provide spaces in which utopian visions can be imagined, enacted and contested. Conceptualizing urban climate change experiments as heterotopic sites seems fruitful in at least two regards. Firstly, it captures their provisional and ambivalent relationship with the broader urban milieu. Secondly, and even more critically, it opens up the dialogues between the future and present which are at the heart of the climate governance project, and highlights the spatial form of these politics. We examine both with reference to two examples of climate experimentation in Berlin and Philadelphia.

Citation

Edwards, G., & Bulkeley, H. (2018). Heterotopia and the urban politics of climate change experimentation. Environment and Planning D: Society and Space, 36(2), 350-369. https://doi.org/10.1177/0263775817747885

Journal Article Type Article
Acceptance Date Nov 21, 2017
Online Publication Date Dec 17, 2017
Publication Date Apr 1, 2018
Deposit Date Jan 4, 2018
Publicly Available Date Jan 5, 2018
Journal Environment and Planning D: Society and Space
Print ISSN 0263-7758
Electronic ISSN 1472-3433
Publisher SAGE Publications
Peer Reviewed Peer Reviewed
Volume 36
Issue 2
Pages 350-369
DOI https://doi.org/10.1177/0263775817747885
Public URL https://durham-repository.worktribe.com/output/1369093

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Edwards, G.A.S. & Bulkeley, H.A. (2018). Heterotopia and the urban politics of climate change experimentation. Environment and Planning D: Society and Space 36(2): 350-369. © The Author(s) 2017. Reprinted by permission of SAGE Publications.






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