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| Author: | Blok, A. |
| Title: | Clash of the eco-sciences: carbon marketization, environmental NGOs and performativity as politics |
| Journal: | Economy and Society
2011 : AUG, VOL 40:3, p. 451-467 |
| Index terms: | climate |
| Freeterms: | performativity of economics materialist politics of techno-science carbon markets transnational environmental NGOs climate justice |
| Language: | eng |
| Abstract: | The performativity of economics programme, pioneered by actor-network theorist Michel Callon, has emerged as an important theoretical intervention at the intersections of science studies, economic sociology and the anthropology of valuation. Exploring the case of contentious carbon market designs in global climate governance, however, this paper argues that performativity analysts have so far failed to pay sufficient attention to the political dimensions of marketization. Adopting insights from recent materialist approaches to the politics of technoscience, the article addresses this imbalance by outlining three modalities of technoeconomic citizenship, as these interfere with the shaping of specific carbon market designs. Drawing on web-based research tools and document analysis, each modality is illustrated via transnational environmental NGO practices of contestation, particularly in the global South. The performativity programme, it is concluded, stands to gain from conceptualizing politics as dynamic assemblages of collective actors, sites of contestation and technologies of witnessing. Re-framing performativity in this direction allows for a reintegration of economics into a wider political ecology of contested eco-sciences. |
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