%0 Journal Article
%T Whose environment?: the end of nature, climate change and the process of post-politicization
%A Swyngedouw
%A Erik
%J Ambiente & Sociedade
%D 2011
%I ANPPAS - UNICAMP
%R 10.1590/S1414-753X2011000200006
%X the paper explores how the elevation of the environmental question, in particular the problem of climate change, to a global and consensually established public concern is both a marker of and constituent force in the production of de-politicization. the paper has four parts. first, i problematize the question of nature and the environment. second, the case of climate change policy is presented as cause c¨Śl¨¨bre of de-politicization. the third part relates this argument to the views of political theorists who argue that the political constitution of western democracies is increasingly marked by the consolidation of post-political and post-democratic arrangements. fourth, i discuss the climate change consensus in light of the post-political thesis. i conclude that the matter of the environment and climate change in particular, needs to be displaced onto the terrain of the properly political.
%K climate change policy.
%U http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_abstract&pid=S1414-753X2011000200006&lng=en&nrm=iso&tlng=en