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Accepted Paper:

Localizing publics of urban climate neutrality (mobile) policies in Warsaw  
Anna Horolets (University of Warsaw)

Paper Short Abstract:

Taking Warsaw as a case study, I look at how EU initiated climate neutrality policies construct its publics, how particular groups are named, represented and targeted in them, and if activists become the publics in the particular local setting.

Paper Abstract:

Taking Warsaw as a case study, I look at the ‘mobile policies’ of green urbanism. For one, the global optics of climate policies suggests they are generic, relevant to all humans and carried out in the name of all. Specifically, the EU policies aimed at climate neutrality in cities declare that ‘no one will be left behind’. However, the concerns are raised that in a largely ‘post-political’ manner of climate policy making people are displaced ‘from the discourse on what counts as “sustainable”’ altogether (Rosol et al. 2017).

The proposed paper relies on the material from a comparative anthropological research on how cities translate EU urban climate neutrality policies (EU-URGE). As one of Mission 100 cities, Warsaw adopts EU mobile policies framings. Simultaneously, it has its own histories of environmental policies and action as well as the specific social and economic conditions. I focus on the policies' translations, and present how climate neutrality policies in Warsaw construct its publics and how particular groups are named, represented and targeted in them. I am also interested in how the grass-root groups that advocate climate mitigation may or may not become the publics of climate neutrality policies as a result of policy mobility.

Panel P54
Problems, policies, publics
  Session 1