Governing subjectivities in a carbon constrained world

Routinized ways of eating, flying, driving, warming our hornes, or consuming are 'regimes ofpractices' - relati vely systematized ways of doing things - within which our carbon emissions are generated. Many ofthese practices have recently been called into question because of their contribution to climate change. The contestation of these practices are highly suggestive that one of the central questions for climate politics has become a question of subjectivity - what types of people (what sorts of desires, daily routines, and so on) we are and need to become to address climate change. We argue that a Foucauldian approach to power and government is extremely useful to addressing this focus since it conceptualizes government precisely in terms of subjectivity - as the 'conduct of conduct.' We will outline and exemplify how this sort of approach can recast familiar questions about climate change policy and governance. Our aim is to offer a new angle on 'climate governance' - an increasingly detached and empty concept - as being about the governing of ourselves and others in the context of climate change.