2026/01/22 by Kajsa Lundberg · 1 voice
Social Sciences · #Australian History and Society #Commonwealth, Australian Politics and Federalism #Political Theology and Sovereignty
paper · doi:10.2458/jpe.7520
openalex publication_date 2026/01/22 · openalex created_date 2026/01/23 · openalex updated_date 2026/05/21
This is an accepted article with a DOI pre-assigned that is not yet published.This is the Capitalocene, an age characterised by death derived from capitalism’s endless accumulation, growth, and resource exploitation. In the Capitalocene, policies dedicated to climate change mitigation are intertwined with a capitalist logic, perpetuating a self-reinforcing cycle of validation and harm. Based on a political ecology approach analysing the Australian government’s climate change mitigation policies, I suggest, these policies promote the deferral of climate change action and the slippage into death-boundedness—subtly and over time. Policies designed to mitigate the harms of the Capitalocene remain confined within the framework of capitalism, rendering them entirely incapable of resolving the climate crisis, all while reinforcing the legitimacy of the Capitalocene. As such, climate change mitigation policy in the Capitalocene represents ‘necropolicy’, death-bound policy.