Contesting Relations of Definition: Climate Risk and Subpolitics in Singapore
Contesting Relations of Definition: Climate Risk and Subpolitics in Singapore
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定义的争议关系：新加坡的气候风险和次政治
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2021
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Sulfikar Amir
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Belicia Teo;Sulfikar Amir
摘要近年来，新加坡出现了越来越多关注气候变化的民间社会团体，对政府采取的气候行动方向提出了挑战。本文采用乌尔里希·贝克的风险社会理论和布赖恩·韦恩对主导的制度化科学文化的批判来考察气候变化时代的“定义关系”，突出了在亚洲技术官僚国家表面上致力于应对气候变化的背景下，气候风险是如何构建和争议的。通过参与式观察、半结构式访谈和政府政策内容分析，我们认为，在新加坡，由公民社会团体组织的以气候为重点的次政治正在兴起。在本文中，我们描述了这种亚政治是如何不仅由专家知识之间的争论，而且由不同的道德和正义框架推动的。此外，尽管新加坡政府对外支持气候行动，但持续强调专家对气候风险的理解阻碍了这些气候民间社会团体与国家机构之间更有意义的接触。我们建议，为了有意义地参与一个“全民族”的方法，风险的更广泛的含义必须考虑在国家机构和民间社会之间的未来合作。
ABSTRACT In recent years, a growing number of climate-focused civil society groups have emerged in Singapore, challenging the direction that the government is taking for climate action. This paper uses Ulrich Beck’s risk society thesis and Brian Wynne’s critique of the dominant institutionalized culture of science to examine the ‘relations of definition’ in an era of climate change, highlighting how climate risk is constructed and contested in the context of an Asian technocratic state that appears outwardly committed to tackling climate change. Through participant observation, semi-structured interviews and content analysis of government policies, we argue for the emergence of a climate-focused subpolitics in Singapore organized by civil society groups. In this paper, we describe how this subpolitics is fuelled not only by contestations between expert knowledge, but by differing framings of morality and justice. Furthermore, despite the Singapore state’s outward alignment towards climate action, the continual emphasis on expert understandings of climate risk stymies more meaningful engagement between these climate civil society groups and state bodies. We suggest that in order to meaningfully engage in a ‘whole-of-nation’ approach, the wider meanings of risk must be considered in future collaborations between state bodies and civil society.