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100 _aNyberg, Daniel and Wright, Christopher
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245 _aDefending hegemony: From climate change mitigation to adaptation on the great barrier reef
260 _aOrganization
300 _a31(2), Mar, 2024: p. 247-268
520 _aThe catastrophic consequences of climate change are now evident with extreme weather events impacting communities and ecosystems. Against calls within civil society for dramatic decarbonisation, the continued expansion of the fossil fuel industry is constructed by governments and business as ‘common sense’. By analysing the political process surrounding the 2016 and 2017 coral bleaching of the Great Barrier Reef, we show how a fossil fuel hegemony has been upheld against the counter-hegemonic forces of environmental critique and the catastrophic bleaching events. By distinguishing between politics (i.e. strategies, practices and discourses) and the political (i.e. the antagonism constitutive of societies), we explain what different hegemonic practices achieve in the process of establishing and defending hegemony. In our case, this resulted in downplaying emissions mitigation and emphasising local climate change adaptation. Through the political process, business solutions and self-regulation were presented as the logical response to the climate crisis. – Reproduced https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/13505084221115836
650 _aClimate change mitigation
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773 _aOrganization
906 _aCLIMATE CHANGE
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