Urbanising climate justice: constructing scales and politicising difference

Kian Goh

Cambridge Journal of Regions, Economy and Society, vol. 13, issue 3, 559-574

Abstract: Central debates in urban studies often appear to neglect the most urgent issues confronting cities and regions. Discourses on generalised urban processes, historical difference and planetary urbanisation rarely take, as a primary object of analysis, intertwined global climate change and urban change. Climate change is often considered generalised, affecting everyone everywhere. But its impacts are unevenly distributed and experienced. It links generalised processes and particular impacts and actions with implications for urban theory. This article builds on theories of multiscalar research and the politics of location to develop a conceptual framework of urban change through the lens of climate justice.

Keywords: climate change; urbanisation; social justice; spatial politics; urban theory (search for similar items in EconPapers)
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