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Understanding Chinas low-carbon transitions in theory

In: Conducting and Financing Low-carbon Transitions in China

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Learning from China requires a better understanding of how the state actors have tackled mitigation and low carbon transitions (MLCT) and the outcomes than what is currently available. It necessitates an analysis of governing strategies and practices. This chapter justifies, explains, and operationalizes the governmentality perspective. It first reviews three existing interpretative models of China's MLCT performance, focusing respectively on policy, politics, and governance, and their deficiencies. It then introduces the perspective of carbon governmentality, conceptualizing MLCT as an outcome of conducting the conduct of the governed through the art of carbon government aimed to promote MLCT. Key terms in the governmentality perspective and its analytical merits are explained. The governmentality perspective is finally operationalized by adapting Mitchell Dean's 'analytics of government'. An analytical framework is formulated for investigating the carbon governmentalities in terms of political rationalities and the governing techniques and technologies for MLCT.

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  • ., 2021. "Understanding Chinas low-carbon transitions in theory," Chapters, in: Le-Yin Zhang (ed.), Conducting and Financing Low-carbon Transitions in China, chapter 2, pages 11-36, Edward Elgar Publishing.
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