Multilateral UN summits from Stockholm to Copenhagen have set
the pace and direction for the global governance of sustainable
development. The 2002 Johannesburg World Summit on Sustainable
Development (WSSD) was a key moment in the evolution of sustainable
development as a discourse and summitry as a technology of
government. It firmly established multi-stakeholder partnerships,
carbon-trading and communication strategies as primary techniques
for dealing with environmental crises. It was also a significant
event in terms of South African domestic politics, witnessing some
of the largest protests since the end of Apartheid.
Carl Death draws on Foucauldian governmentality literature to
argue that the Johannesburg Summit was a key site for the
refashioning of sustainable development as advanced liberal
government; for the emergence of an exemplary logic of rule; and
for the mutually interdependent relationship between 'mega-events'
(summits, world cups, Olympic games) and 'mega-protests' understood
as Foucauldian counter-conducts.
Analysing detailed and original research on the WSSD, Death
argues that summits work to make politically sustainable a global
order which is manifestly unsustainable. Paradoxically however,
they also provide opportunities for the status quo to be protested
and resisted. This work will be of great interest to scholars of
development studies, global governance and environmental
politics.
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