Feeling the Vibrations: On the Micropolitics of Climate Change
Published In
Political Theory
Document Type
Citation
Publication Date
2019
Subjects
Climatic changes -- Social aspects, Global environmental change -- Social aspects
Abstract
Climate change is more than a discrete issue demanding political attention and response. A changing climate permeates political life as material processes of planetary change reverberate in our bodies, affecting subterranean processes of attention and evoking bodily responses at and below the register of awareness. By way of example, I explore the register of bodily feeling to raise the possibility that proliferating anomalies in atmospheric, oceanic, and seismic activities are entering into subliminal experiences of time and confounding embodied expectations of how the future is likely to flow from the past. The essay concludes with a preliminary discussion of how micropolitical strategies to amplify visceral experiences of climatic changes might valuably contribute to larger programs for climate action.
DOI
10.1177/0090591719836195
Persistent Identifier
https://archives.pdx.edu/ds/psu/33992
Citation Details
Erev, Stephanie. “Feeling the Vibrations: On the Micropolitics of Climate Change.” Political Theory 47, no. 6 (December 2019): 836–63. https://doi.org/10.1177/0090591719836195.