ABSTRACT
This chapter sketches the existing scholarship on carbon governance as it relates to the 'conduct of carbon conduct', and signals the ways in which the scholarship is moved laterally by thinking. It draws inductively from the empirical audit of urban carbon governance in Australian cities to identify some forms of subjects and related forms of conduct being worked on through extant behaviour change initiatives – the rational actor, the reflexive, self-disciplining actor, and the materially-embedded actor. The chapter reflects on the potentials of the subjects and practices for low carbon urban transitions. It elaborates on the principal characteristics of each of the forms of subjectivity as modes of governing carbon conduct. The foundations of the chapter lie in a Foucauldian governmentality approach that directs attention toward the ways in which governance is a process through which programs and techniques produce desired outcomes through, inter alia, 'the conduct of conduct'.
