Broto, VC;
Bulkeley, H;
(2013)
Maintaining climate change experiments: Urban political ecology and the everyday reconfiguration of urban infrastructure.
International Journal of Urban and Regional Research
, 37
(6)
1934 - 1948.
10.1111/1468-2427.12050.
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Abstract
Climate change governance is increasingly being conducted through urban climate change experiments, purposive interventions that seek to reconfigure urban sociotechnical systems to achieve low-carbon and resilient cities. In examining how experiments take effect, we suggest that we need to understand not only how they are made and assembled, but also how they are maintained within specific urban contexts. Drawing on literatures from urban political ecology and the specific debate on urban repair and maintenance, this article examines maintenance in two case studies of climate change experiments in housing in Bangalore (India) and Monterrey (Mexico). We find that maintenance is a crucial process through which not only urban obduracy is preserved, but also the novel and innovative character of the experiment is asserted and reproduced. The process of 'maintaining' experiments is a precarious one, which requires a continuous external input in terms of remaking the experiment materially and discursively. This process causes further reconfigurations beyond the experiment, changing the patterns of responsibility attribution and acceptability that configure the urban fabric. © 2013 Urban Research Publications Limited.
| Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Title: | Maintaining climate change experiments: Urban political ecology and the everyday reconfiguration of urban infrastructure |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.1111/1468-2427.12050 |
| Publisher version: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/1468-2427.12050 |
| Additional information: | © 2013 Urban Research Publications Limited. Published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd. 9600 Garsington Road, Oxford OX4 2DQ, UK and 350 Main St, Malden, MA 02148, USA. This is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. [This copyright line was revised on 30 May 2014.] |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of the Built Environment UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of the Built Environment > UCL Institute for Global Prosperity |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/1422565 |
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