Divisible Governance: Making Gas-fired Futures during Climate Collapse in Northern Australia

Despite widespread acceptance that their emissions accelerate climate change and its disastrous ecological effects, new fossil fuel extraction projects continue apace, further entrenching dependence, thereby enacting particular futures. In this article, we examine how is occurring in the case of a proposed onshore shale gas “fracking” industry remote Northern Territory Australia, drawing on policy legal documents interviews with an enunciatory community scientists, lawyers, activists, makers to illustrate what call “divisible governance.” Divisible governance—enacted through technical maneuvers temporal jurisdictional risk fragmentation—not only facilitates piecemeal entrenchment unsustainable but also sustains ignorance part wider public about impacts such manner which it both facilitated regulated. Such governance regimes, suggest, create felicitous conditions for governments defer, forestall, or eliminate accountability while regulating way into catastrophic change. Countering divisible begins, by mapping connections fragments.