Tomorrowland : Critical Social Theory of Planetary Politics
Manners, Ian LU
(2018)
International Studies Association (ISA) Annual Convention 2018
p.1-1
- Abstract
- We live in ‘Tomorrowland’; a land at the nexus of social science and natural science where the solution to our problems will be found tomorrow. The paper addresses the impossibility of international relations by proposing an alternative approach located in critical social theory. The paper utilises critical social theory to critique contemporary liberal assumptions and rationalisations of cultures of consumption as suffering from the challenges of living in Tomorrowland. In Tomorrowland the future is today, meaning that questions of pollution, biodiversity, and climate change can be addressed in a liberal sense by accelerating the transition to future technology today, no matter what the costs of consumption. Critical social theory will be... (More)
- We live in ‘Tomorrowland’; a land at the nexus of social science and natural science where the solution to our problems will be found tomorrow. The paper addresses the impossibility of international relations by proposing an alternative approach located in critical social theory. The paper utilises critical social theory to critique contemporary liberal assumptions and rationalisations of cultures of consumption as suffering from the challenges of living in Tomorrowland. In Tomorrowland the future is today, meaning that questions of pollution, biodiversity, and climate change can be addressed in a liberal sense by accelerating the transition to future technology today, no matter what the costs of consumption. Critical social theory will be used to analyse the way in which the Disneyfication of Tomorrowland does not render sustainability more likely through accelerated technological transition. To the contrary, the Disneyfication of Tomorrowland into easily consumed and culturally acceptable technological fantasies ensure that allocation and access will never be adequately addressed in international relations. (Less)
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- author
- Manners, Ian
LU
- publishing date
- 2018-04-06
- type
- Contribution to conference
- publication status
- unpublished
- subject
- keywords
- Tomorrowland, Critical Social Theory, Planetary Politics, International Relations, Global Warming, Climate Change, environmental politics
- pages
- 26 pages
- conference name
- International Studies Association (ISA) Annual Convention 2018
- conference location
- San Francisco, United States
- conference dates
- 2018-04-04 - 2018-04-08
- project
- Arrival of Normative Power in Planetary Politics
- language
- English
- LU publication?
- no
- additional info
- ISA 2018 Panel FC43: 'Intenational Relatons, Ecological Democracy, and Planetary Politics': Chair: Ian Manners (University of Copenhagen) Disc. Karen Litfin (University of Washington) Disc. Matthew Paterson (University of Manchester) Panel: Robyn Eckersley (University of Melbourne) - 'Ecological Democracy and the Rise and Decline of Liberal Democracy: Looking Back, Looking Forward' Annica Kronsell (University of Gothenburg) - '(Re)Thinking Human-Nonhuman Relations Through Empathic Rationality' Jonathan Pickering (University of Canberra) - 'Rethinking the Norm of Sustainable Development for the Anthropocene' Ian Manners (University of Copenhagen) - 'Tomorrowland: Critical Social Theory of Planetary Politics' Karin Bäckstrand (Stockholm University) - 'Ecological Democracy in the Anthropocene'
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