Haste : : the slow politics of climate urgency / / Håvard Haarstad [and three others], editors.

• TeilnehmendeR: Haarstad, Håvard,
• Place / Publishing House: London : : UCL Press,, 2023.
• Year of Publication: 2023
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (382 pages)

What does it mean politically to construct climate change as a matter of urgency? We are certainly running out of time to stop climate change. But perhaps this particular understanding of urgency could be at the heart of the problem. When in haste, we make more mistakes, we overlook things, we get tunnel vision. Here we make the case for a 'slow politics of urgency'. Rather than rushing and speeding up, the sustainable future is arguably better served by us challenging the dominant framings through which we understand time and change in society. Transformation to meet the climate challenge requires multiple temporalities of change, speeding up certain types of change processes but also slowing things down. While recognizing the need for certain types of urgency in climate politics, Haste directs attention to the different and alternative temporalities at play in climate and sustainability politics. It addresses several key issues on climate urgency: How do we accommodate concerns that are undermined by the politics of urgency, such as participation and justice? How do we act upon the urgency of the climate challenge without reproducing the problems that speeding up of social processes has brought? What do the slow politics of urgency look like in practice? Divided into 23 short and accessible chapters, written by both established and emerging scholars from different disciplines, Haste tackles a major problem in contemporary climate change research and offers creative perspectives on pathways out of the climate emergency.

Table of Contents

Part I, Climate apocalypse and radical utopias. 'The apocalypse is disappointing': traversing the ecological fantasy Erik Swyngedouw -- From architectures of capital to architectures of care: the arts of dreaming otherwise in the Oslo Architecture Triennale Cecilie Sachs Olsen -- Extinction Rebellion and the future city Emma Arnold -- The urgency of hope and responses to contemporary crises Marikken Wullf-Wathne and Kristin Kjærås -- Part II, Learning the politics of urgency. Negation, imagination and organisation: rethinking sustainability transitions as a question of popular education Keri Facer -- 'Right here, right now': Immediacy, space and publicness in the politics of climate crisis Eugene McCann -- Carefully transforming our institutions: how they change, how they listen Scott Bremer and Eleanor Johnson -- Experimenting ecological civilization on the ground: the green transformation of a resource-based city in China Ping Huang and Xiaohui Hu -- Part III, Countering alienation under rapid change.The good, the bad and the beautiful? The role of aesthetics in low-carbon consumption Jesse Schrage -- Sustainability from the ground: urban gardening with children as means to environmental change Sofia Cele -- Refashioning the supercyclical city Eleanor Johnson -- Environmental injustices unfold in urban sustainability projects in Istanbul Mahir Yazar -- Inclusive sustainability: gaming as a tool for participation in urgent planning Tarje I. Wanvik and Håvard H. Bjørnstad -- Part IV, Contesting the speed of urban change. Small measures, large change: the promise and peril of incremental urbanisation Andrew Karvonen and Jonas Bylund -- Make way for efficiency: sustainable mobility and the politics of speed Jakob Grandin -- The geography of the 'world greenest cities': a class-based critique Ståle Holgersen -- Climate imaginaries for urgent urban transformations Håvard Haarstad -- Part V, Temporalities of infrastructural change. Periphery everywhere AbdouMaliq Simone ; Reimagining urban innovation Matthew Cook ; Promises and contradictions of digital sustainability in the post-pandemic city Chiara Certomà ; People's Republic of Energy: rethinking the possible in energy futures Hannah Knox, Jonathan Atkinson and Britt Jurgensen ; Solar spectacles: why Lisbon's solar projects matter for energy transformation Siddharth Sareen.