The Geoengine: Geoengineering and the Geopolitics of Planetary Modification
The Geoengine: Geoengineering and the Geopolitics of Planetary Modification
复制标题
地球引擎：地球工程和行星改造的地缘政治
DOI：
--
复制
发表时间：
2013
期刊：
影响因子：
--
通讯作者：
Kathryn Yusoff
中科院分区：
文献类型：
--
作者：
Kathryn Yusoff
作为对地球工程的政治和实践的主题问题的介绍，本文概述了一个框架，思考“地球引擎”，支持行星改造的概念。它回顾了地球工程学作为一种技术，治理和承诺话语的一些方式，并研究了其中一些框架内固有的矛盾。质疑的动机和形式的参与，是明显的地球工程的治理，其目前的挑战，现有形式的全球民主，本文推测在更广泛的地缘政治的影响，在地球的规模上运作，这意味着我们目前如何理解地缘政治中的“地理”。虽然围绕地球工程的有限决策过程与这些决策的潜在范围和影响之间存在很大的不匹配，但地理学家也有机会为这场辩论做出深刻的贡献，以改变地球工程是什么，并成为一种物质话语实践。本文认为，只有通过参加地球本体论的形成固有的工程地球的制造，可以容纳一个新的地缘政治政治思想，考虑到一个更活跃的“地球引擎”，正在开放的政治和物质的修改。关键词：地球工程，气候变化，地缘政治，地质学，人工影响天气，人类世
As an introduction to a theme issue on the politics and practices of geoengineering, this paper outlines a framework for thinking about the ‘geoengine’ that underpins concepts of planetary modification. It reviews some of the ways in which geoengineering has been framed as a technological, governance, and promissory discourse and examines the contradictions inherent within some of these framings. Questioning some of the motivations and forms of participation that are evident in the governance of geoengineering, and its current challenge to existing forms of global democracy, the paper speculates on the wider geopolitical implications of operating at the scale of the planet, and what this means for how we currently understand the ‘geo’ in geopolitics. While there is a big mismatch between the restricted decision-making processes around geoengineering and the potential scope and impact of those decisions, there are also opportunities for geographers to make incisive contributions to this debate to change what geoengineering is and becomes as a material–discursive practice. This paper suggests that only by attending to the geo-ontological formations inherent in the fabrication of an engineerable earth, can a new geopolitics be accommodated within political thought that takes account of a much more active ‘geoengine’ that is being opened to political and material modification. Keywords: geoengineering, climate change, geopolitics, geophilosophy, weather modification, Anthropocene