Regional geographies of climate change
Paasi, Anssi (2023-03-07)
Paasi, A. (2023), Regional geographies of climate change. Tijds. voor econ. en Soc. Geog., 114: 71-78. https://doi.org/10.1111/tesg.12553
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https://urn.fi/URN:NBN:fi-fe20230830113768
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Abstract
This essay is a commentary on Peter Taylor’s article ‘The geographical ontology challenge in attending to anthropogenic climate change: regional geography revisited’. Taylor’s article develops, in the context climate change, several themes that he has outlined during his long career. This commentary focuses particularly on the contested (discursive) regional, regional geographical and state-centric frames critically examined in Taylor’s paper. Despite the mushrooming literature on climate change, ontological issues related to regionality/spatialities explored by Taylor have been largely overlooked. He introduces a useful multi-scalar and multi-dimensional framework for problematizing the ontologies of the spatialities related to climate change emergency. This commentary focuses on this framework in the context of regional geography. Since regional/territorial, particularly state-centric frames are frequently taken for granted, Taylor’s proposal is very welcome and provides a valuable addition not only to the debate on climate change but also to the ongoing resurgence of regional geography and regional thinking.
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