One person's eu-topia, another's hell: Climate Camp as a heterotopia
One person's eu-topia, another's hell: Climate Camp as a heterotopia
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一个人的乌托邦,另一个人的地狱:气候营作为一个异托邦
DOI:
10.1080/09644010802624850
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发表时间:
2009
影响因子:
5.5
通讯作者:
Stephan Price
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作者:
C. Saunders;Stephan Price
Climate Camp, or, more properly, the Camp for Climate Action, has almost become an institution within the UK’s environmental movement. It developed from direct action networks, most prominently those brought together at Stirling by the anti-G8 protest in 2005, networks which increasingly realised the need to tackle the urgent issue of climate change in the face of policy promotion of ‘clean’ coal and airport expansion. In response, activists have organised and set up three well-publicised week-long camps focused on direct action targeted against carbon-intensive infrastructures: Drax, the largest coalfired power station in Europe (2006), Heathrow airport (2007) and Kingsnorth coal-fired power station in Kent (2008). Although these three infrastructural projects have been the main foci of the Camps, simultaneous, decentralised autonomous actions have taken place outside of the Camps. The objective has not only been to facilitate direct action motivated by a desire to prevent catastrophic climate change, but also to be an exemplar of sustainable living and a site for alternative education. Thus, the Camp manifests itself as a campsite that brings together between 800 and 2000 novice and experienced activists. It is run according to ecological and anarchist principles, replete with consensus decision-making, direct action training and educational workshops. A fourth objective, that of ‘movement building’, was new for the 2008 Camp. Despite these shared objectives, Climate Campers are far from being a homogenous group. In almost every sense, the Climate Camp is a heterotopia (Hetherington 1997, p. 41). It is a space of alternative social ordering through which participants seek to radically re-imagine and create an idealised society: a eutopia, or ‘good place’ (Hetherington 1997, p. viii). As with all heterotopia, it is