The limits of the loops: critical environmental politics and the Circular Economy

Hobson, Kersty 2020. The limits of the loops: critical environmental politics and the Circular Economy. Environmental Politics 10.1080/09644016.2020.1816052 Item availability restricted.

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Abstract

Circular Economy (CE) is now a key governance framework that aims to reconfigure how value is extracted from resources. Despite its widespread uptake, CE commentary to date tends towards descriptive and/or celebratory. In response, in this paper I outline some ways that environmental politics researchers have much to contribute to CE research, arguing that current examples of CE policies and practices potentially accelerate resource use into this century. A key weakness is how proponents frame us all as particular forms of ‘user-consumers’. Such framings fail to account for what is at stake for all of us as part of the CE project: and I conclude this paper by posing several key research questions, to encourage more critical environmental politics research on and around issues of CE.

Item Type:	Article
Date Type:	Published Online
Status:	In Press
Schools:	Geography and Planning (GEOPL)
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
ISSN:	0964-4016
Date of First Compliant Deposit:	8 September 2020
Date of Acceptance:	24 August 2020
Last Modified:	13 Oct 2020 12:56
URI:	http://orca.cf.ac.uk/id/eprint/134730

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