Interpretive Approaches to Global Climate Governance

1. Introduction: How and why to deconstruct the greenhouse Chris Methmann, Delf Rothe and Benjamin Stephan 2. Discursive Interplay and Co-constitution: Carbonification of Environmental Discourses Aysem Mert Part I: The Economization of Climate Change 3. Climate Politics as Investment: Understanding Discourse through Governmental Practice Simon Wolf 4. How to Trade 'Not Cutting Down Trees': A Governmentality Perspective on the Commodification of Avoided Deforestation Benjamin Stephan 5. Interpretive Openness and Climate Action in an Age of Market Environmentalism Larry Lohmann Part II: The Securitization of Climate Change 6. Climate Chains: Neo-Malthusianism, Militarism and Migration Betsy Hartmann 7. Apocalypse Now (And Then)! From Exceptional Rhetorics to Risk Management in Global Climate Politics Chris Methmann and Delf Rothe 8. (In)Convenient Convergences: 'Climate Refugees', apocalyptic discourses and the depoliticization of climate induced migration Giovanni Bettini Part III: The Technocratization of Climate Change 9. My Space: Governing Individuals' Carbon Emissions Matthew Paterson and Johannes Stripple 10. Governing Knowledge Through START and the Expansion of Global Environmental Change Research Ola Uhrqvist 11. Climate Engineering: Spectacle, Tragedy or Solution? A Content Analysis of News Media Framing Holly Jean Buck Part IV: Between De- and Repoliticisation 12. White Ponchos Dripping Away? Glacier Narratives in Bolivian Climate Change Discourse Anna Kaijser 13. 'Climate Justice', 'Green Economy' or 'a one planet lifestyle' -Hegemonic Narratives in Transnational NGOs and Social Movements Philip T. Bedall 14. Building Legitimacy: Consensus and Conflict over Historic Responsibility for Climate Change Mathias Friman 15. Democratizing the Global Climate Regime John S. Dryzek and Hayley Stevenson 16. Reflections Chris Methmann, Delf Rothe and Benjamin Stephan