@article{jpe 2242, author = {Franziska Müller}, title = {Can the subaltern protect forests? REDD+ compliance, depoliticization and Indigenous subjectivities}, volume = {27}, year = {2020}, url = {http://journals.librarypublishing.arizona.edu/jpe/article/id/2242/}, issue = {1}, doi = {10.2458/v27i1.23198}, abstract = {<p>REDD+ regimes are accompanied by capacity-building and educational practices, which play an important role in REDD+ governance. These practices address subaltern local and indigenous actors, seek their compliance and thereby contribute to the stabilization of otherwise all-too-fragile global carbon governance systems. In this article I analyze the governing effects of such practices by drawing on Robert Fletcher's concept of "multiple environmentalities" and Tania Murray Li's "analytic of assemblage." Empirically I focus on educational materials that have been designed for REDD+ projects in cooperation with one of the world's largest REDD+ funds, Norway's International Climate and Forest Initiative. I identify several strategies that aim at aligning diverse actors, seek to de- or re-politicize REDD+ concepts, authorize knowledge, and, most significantly, address local actors as responsible ecological stewards, who contribute to stabilizing REDD+ regimes on the ground. In total, these strategies promote programmatic subjectivities among indigenous 'stakeholders' and contribute to a new, 'glocal' understanding of nature-society relations.</p>}, month = {1}, pages = {419-435}, keywords = {capacity-building,environmentality,governmentality,REDD+,global environmental governance}, issn = {1073-0451}, publisher={University of Arizona Libraries}, journal = {Journal of Political Ecology} }