Abstract
This paper takes up recent calls to work ‘for and against climate capitalism’ to foreground the possibility of strategic engagements within capitalist structures that could destabilise its long-standing exploitative dynamics. In doing so, it locates prefigurative positions of an ocean counter-politics generated through novel blue financial instruments; positions that are, perhaps, able to orient us towards different political paradigms beyond prescribed modes of capitalist development. Based on extended ethnography in the Republic of Seychelles—an archipelagic country that has pioneered two ‘world-first’ climate finance deals in the last decade—I track how the operationalisations of these instruments have allowed for the formation of political spaces and subjectivities with, for, or against the country's ocean territory. Ultimately, I suggest we must hold the tension between climate capitalism expanding into a last oceanic frontier and the alternate futures that are simultaneously animating the current climate finance conjuncture.
| Original language | English |
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| Article number | e70146 |
| Pages (from-to) | 1-12 |
| Number of pages | 12 |
| Journal | Antipode |
| Volume | 58 |
| Issue number | 2 |
| Early online date | 4 Mar 2026 |
| DOIs | |
| Publication status | Published - Mar 2026 |
UN SDGs
This output contributes to the following UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)
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SDG 13 Climate Action
Keywords
- Blue Economy
- Seychelles
- Small Island Developing States
- climate capitalism
- climate finance
- ocean governance
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Geography, Planning and Development
- Earth-Surface Processes
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