Dear all, I would like to draw your attention to the book The Politics of Carbon Markets, edited by Benjamin Stephan & Richard Lane and recently published by Routledge.
Carbon markets are in the middle of a fundamental crisis. A crisis marked by collapsing prices, fleeing actors, and ever increasing greenhouse gas levels. Yet carbon trading remains at the heart of global attempts to respond to climate change. Not only this, but markets continue to proliferate - particularly in the Global South. This edited volume helps to make sense of this paradox. It brings two urgently needed insights to the analysis of carbon markets. First, the markets must be understood in relation to the politics involved in their development, maintenance and opposition. Second, this politics is multiform and pervasive. Implementation of new techniques and measuring tools, policy development and contestation, and the structuring context of institutional settings and macro-social forces all involve a variety of political actors and create new forms of political agency. This book has assembled 12 contributions (including by myself - see below for more details) bringing together a variety of approaches (actor-network-theory, governmentality studies, hegemony and discourse theory, neo-Gramscian political economy, etc.) that focus on this politics of carbon markets. These study the total extent of the carbon markets, from their prehistory to their contemporary expansion and wider impacts. In total, this wide-ranging political perspective on the carbon markets is invaluable to an audience interested in ecological markets, climate change governance and environmental politics. You can find a flyer with further information and a 20% discount code if you order the book through Routledge here: http://bit.ly/politicsofcarbonmarkets If you are interested in reviewing this book please get in touch with Megan Smith at Routledge to receive a free review copy: megan.sm...@taylorandfrancis.com<mailto:megan.sm...@taylorandfrancis.com> With best regards, Richard Lane PhD Candidate Department of International Relations University of Sussex r.l...@sussex.ac.uk<mailto:r.l...@sussex.ac.uk> My new book The Politics of Carbon Markets<http://www.routledge.com/books/details/9780415707138> co-edited with Benjamin Stephan, is now available from Routledge. Peter Newell Professor of International Relations Department of International Relations School of Global Studies University of Sussex Brighton East Sussex BN1 9SN UK T: (0044) 1273 873159 E: p.j.new...@sussex.ac.uk<mailto:p.j.new...@sussex.ac.uk> Director of Research and Knowledge Exchange, School of Global Studies Director of the Centre for Global Political Economy at Sussex http://www.sussex.ac.uk/cgpe My latest book, Globalization and the Environment, is now available from Polity: http://www.politybooks.com/book.asp?ref=0745647227 -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "gep-ed" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to gep-ed+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
