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Governing Sustainable Development - Partnerships, Protests and Power at the World Summit (Paperback)
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Governing Sustainable Development - Partnerships, Protests and Power at the World Summit (Paperback)
Series: Interventions
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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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