ABSTRACT
Resistance movements, postcolonial struggles and anti-globalisation agendas often cohere around ecological and environmental concerns. Environmental activism and radical democratic politics seem to go hand in hand. Climate change discourses can indeed be read as a mechanism of promoting democracy when the reworking of democracy and its promotion is factored in. Democracy is no longer primarily understood as representative form of public government but instead as an open-ended and encompassing process of self-transformation. The chapter argues that climate change policy framings and problematisations can be cohered as a concern with a similar problematic. The ontology of socioecological system characterising climate change discourses and the kinds of problematisations this enables indicates how this new democratic governance can be put to work. As this chapter revealed, the real complexity envisioned by new materialism does indeed come into view in climate change discourses. Central to the way climate change concerns are voiced is ontology of the complex socioecological system.
