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ephemera: theory & politics in organization
volume 12, number 1/2

The atmosphere business
Issue editors: Steffen Böhm, Anna-Maria Murtola and Sverre Spoelstra

The contributions collected in this special issue of ephemera question the underlying ideologies and assumptions of carbon markets, and bring to light many of the contradictions and antagonisms that are currently at the heart of ‘climate capitalism’.

Table of contents

Editorial

• The atmosphere business
  Steffen Böhm, Anna-Maria Murtola and Sverre Spoelstra

Notes

• Privatising the atmosphere: A solution or dangerous con?
  Mike Childs
• Carbon markets after Durban
  Oscar Reyes
• A dark art: Field notes on carbon capture and storage policy negotiations at COP17
  Gökçe Günel
• Durban’s conference of polluters, market failure and critic failure
  Patrick Bond
• The people’s climate summit in Cochabamba: A tragedy in three acts
  Tadzio Mueller

Interview

• Critiquing carbon markets: A conversation
  Larry Lohmann and Steffen Böhm

Articles

• Capitalizing on chaos: Climate change and disaster capitalism
  Robert Fletcher
• The prey of uncertainty: Climate change as opportunity
  Jerome Whitington
• Carbon classified? Unpacking heterogeneous relations inscribed  into corporate carbon emissions
  Ingmar Lippert
• A colonial mechanism to enclose lands: A critical review of two  REDD+-focused special issues
  Joanna Cabello and Tamra Gilbertson
• Mapping REDD in the Asia-Pacific: Governance, marketisation  and contention
  Rebecca Pearse
• Planting trees through the Clean Development Mechanism:  A critical assessment
  Esteve Corbera and Charlotte Friedli

Reviews

• The ‘third way’ for climate action
  Siddhartha Dabhi
• Carbon trading in South Africa: Plus ça change?
  Peter Newell
• Can capitalism survive climate change?
  David L. Levy

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