1st Edition
Climate Change Mitigation and the European Union A Lacanian Exploration of Desire and Enjoyment
1. Introduction
2. The EU’s climate action: policy at a critical juncture
3. Climate mitigation action and the EU: a Lacanian matter?
4. Climate change mitigation action: of knowledge and disavowal
5. Climate change mitigation action: the case of energy efficiency and renewables
6. The Lacanian case of the circular economy: a return of the repressed?
7. The Lacanian case of the (non) circular economy
8. Conclusions
Bibliography
Appendix
Index
Biography
Valeria Tolis is Lecturer in Climate Change Governance at the University of Leeds, UK. As a scholar of critical environmental politics, her research contributes to investigating the mechanisms that govern status quo and change in the production of environmental knowledge and in the formulation of environmental policies.
