Contested carbon: Carbon forestry as a speculatively virtual,falteringly material and disputed territorial assemblage |
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| Institution: | 1. UNEP DTU Partnership on Energy, Environment and Sustainable Development, Copenhagen O, Denmark;2. Institute of Environmental Science and Technology and Department of Economics & Economic History, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Spain;1. Department of Politics, University of Sheffield, Elmfield Building, Sheffield, S10 2TU, UK;2. Ekuri Community and Wise Administration of Terrestrial Environment and Resources (WATER), Calabar, Nigeria;3. Department of Geography and Environmental Science, University of Calabar, Nigeria;1. Institute of Social Ecology, University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, Vienna, Austria;2. Centre for Development and Environment, University of Bern, Switzerland |
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| Abstract: | Assemblage approaches are increasingly being used to understand new socio-natural formations arising in relation to the multiple crises of capitalism, climate change and environmental degradation. The valuation of nature is key to these new formations, which the creation of new ‘valued entities’, through calculative practices, that can be accounted for, costed and circulated in monetised and financialised forms in order to ostensibly ‘fix’ certain environmental outcomes in relation to contemporary global crisis. This paper uses an assemblage approach in relation to the global’ transnational project of carbon forestry offsetting and REDD+ in a particular place, Uganda, arguing that it has utility in this respect. While Uganda has been named by Lang and Byakola (2005) as a ‘funny place to store carbon’ due to its contested land politics and history of violence its weak governance context paradoxically re-enforces the imperative for intervention. The paper argues that carbon forestry assemblages are inherently ephemeral and fundamentally contested in three ways: exhibiting a speculative virtuality, faltering materiality and disputed territoriality. Such analysis has the ability to go beyond technical and managerial, or solely pollical economic critiques of carbon forestry, to point at openings for alternatives. |
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| Keywords: | Assemblage approaches Valuation Neoliberal environmentalism Forestry REDD+ Uganda Assemblage Market environmentalism Carbon forestry Spectacle |
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