The World Trade Organisation and protest movements: altering world order?
In: Rethinking globalizations
In: Rethinking globalizations
Blog: Reason.com
Housing bats, buying an E.V., and planting trees sometimes end up being counterproductive.
In: Routledge explorations in environmental studies
Introduction: Myth and Environmentalism: Entanglements, Synergies, Openings Esther Sánchez-Pardo -- PART I: Myth, disaster and present-day views on ecological damage -- 1. The afterlife of Chornobyl: apocalyptic mythology and environmentalism in the Exclusion Zone / Haley Laurila -- 2. Myths of wilderness and motherhood in postapocalyptic narratives of the Anthropocene / Hope Jennings and Christine Junker -- PART II: Indigenous and Afro-diasporic myths and ecological knowledge -- 3. Boundless water, boundless ice-Arctic cosmological concepts in times of melting horizons / Sonja Ross -- 4. Revisiting the wild: mythology and ecological wisdom in shalan joudry's Waking Ground Leonor / María Martínez Serrano -- 5. Myth, Afrodiasporic spirituality, and the oceanic archive in independent comics / Paul Humphrey -- PART III: Artistic practices, myth and environmental resilience -- 6. "Giant by Thine Own Nature": Jean-Baptiste Débret and Antônio Parreiras' mythic Brazilian land(scape)s through a transatlantic gaze / Esther Lezra and Esther Sánchez-Pardo -- 7. New cosmogonies of waste negotiated in the art of Mohamed Larbi Rahhali / María Porras Sánchez and Lhoussain Simour -- 8. Death is life is death is life: continual regeneration in myth and the art of Maki Ohkojima / Keijiro Suga -- 9. Coda: a radical evocation of seed / Jeanette Hart-Mann
In: Environmental politics, S. 1-21
ISSN: 1743-8934
In: Mirovaja ėkonomika i meždunarodnye otnošenija: MĖMO, Band 68, Heft 2, S. 94-105
The article examines the prospects of an alliance between the ideology of environmentalism and left-wing ideological trends aimed at solving the problems of the poor and socially vulnerable. It is noted that although the "greens" have often been criticized for their focus on the interests of the middle class and ignoring the material problems of the social "grassroots", modern left-wing theorists increasingly associate the solution to the problem of global warming with the struggle for the material interests of the "exploited and oppressed" (representatives of the working class, precarious workers, poor residents of developing countries, minorities, etc.). It is assumed that the richest, not the poor, should pay for the energy transition; many jobs will be needed for such a transition; serious material climate damage will be prevented; residents of the poorest countries will benefit from the fight against global warming, because they are most vulnerable to droughts, floods and other potential catastrophic events. Today, it is also increasingly noted that "green" energy has already become competitive, and the main problem is in the selfish interests of capitalists. Nevertheless, as the author shows, despite the attempts of the "greens" to get closer to the "reds", objective realities indicate a fundamental difference between the interests of environmentalists and those who today need basic material goods at present. "Green" energy has not become cheaper than fossil fuels, and attempts to radically accelerate the energy transition can lead to an economic, not a climatic, catastrophe. Moreover, it is impossible to solve all the problems at once: a choice is inevitable between urgent investments in the energy transition and the achievement of other socially significant goals: affordable education, free and high-quality medicine, housing construction for all those in need, and much more.
In: Global environmental politics, Band 24, Heft 1, S. 155-157
ISSN: 1536-0091
In: Global policy: gp
ISSN: 1758-5899
AbstractWhile regionalism is highly relevant in many policy fields today, regional idiosyncrasies have been poorly understood in the literature on multilateral climate governance. This article explores regional ideas in climate governance by comparing the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) and the Council of Baltic Sea States (CBSS). As international climate governance has institutionalised a normative compromise of liberal environmentalism since the 1990s, the article further assesses ideational challenges to this compromise. It examines how these ideas have evolved over time and explains variation between the organisations through the advent of new knowledge. Relying on qualitative content analysis, the article finds that both CARICOM and CBSS have supported and reproduced liberal environmentalism in the past. More recently, CARICOM has started to connect climate change with notions of survival and justice, implicitly challenging liberal environmentalism, while CBSS remains situated within established discourses of sustainable development. The article then argues that the availability of new knowledge from both scientific as well as experiential sources explains the evolution of ideas in regional organisations. Problem definitions of climate change evolve within regional organisations when officials gain access to new scientific data and are able to combine or confirm them with experience from their day‐to‐day work.
In: Political studies: the journal of the Political Studies Association of the United Kingdom
ISSN: 1467-9248
Numerous studies suggest a relationship between women's political representation and improved environmental outcomes. Yet, the contexts in which this holds and the mechanisms through which it comes to be remain understudied. This study proposes that women's impact on political commitments to environmentalism and policy outcomes are moderated by states' corruption levels. Although women tend to be more environmental, left-leaning, and risk-averse than men, environments of high-corruption restrain, tokenize, and marginalize women representatives, thereby limiting the impact they may have on environmental governance. Time-series cross-sectional analyses of 58 democracies across 15 years show women's representation is correlated with better environmental outputs and outcomes, but only when corruption levels are low. These findings help broaden our understanding of the relationship between representation and environmental politics and suggest that the interaction of both integrity and inclusivity in governments holds a key to fighting climate change.
In: Party politics: an international journal for the study of political parties and political organizations
ISSN: 1460-3683
As globalisation continues, heated debates over immigrants' environmental behaviours in the U.S. have been prominent in recent years. While research has generally focused on the association between political affiliation and pro-environmental values, only a few studies have specifically explored immigrants' pro-environmental values in the U.S. Utilizing a pooled dataset spanning 3 years (2017, 2020, and 2022) from the Cooperative Election Study and employing a multilevel model, we empirically tested three hypotheses regarding immigrants' pro-environmental attitudes: the globalization hypothesis, the prosperity hypothesis, and the political socialization hypothesis. Our results supported all three hypotheses. On average, immigrants exhibited higher environmental scores than the native-born population. In addition, we identified generational differences, with the 1st generation immigrants showing the highest environmental scores, while the 2nd generation immigrants fell between the 1st generation and the native-born. Compared to the native-born population, party affiliation played a smaller role in immigrants' formation of pro-environmental values. Democratic immigrants tended to be less pro-environment than democratic locals, while Republican immigrants were more pro-environment than Republican locals.
In: European journal of international law
ISSN: 1464-3596
Abstract
Digital and non-digital modes of governing the international legal order co-exist. This imbrication brings with it a particular constellation of actors, new sites and processes of governance and new modalities of law-making. Claudia Aradau and Tobias Blanke, in Algorithmic Reason, guide us through the complex cartographies of global governance. They eloquently map the networks and infrastructures of algorithmic governance and show how they affect the relations between the governing and the governed. Thereby, they help us visualize the imbrication of the local and the global, of private and public infrastructural logics beyond the static binaries that shape our traditional understanding of the international legal order. Throughout multiple case studies, two major transversal claims emerge in the book that are relevant to international lawyers. The book, in my view, argues for (i) an anti-solutionist and (ii) an anti-formalist analysis of global algorithmic governance. As these two transversal claims are not always fully unpacked and explicitly embraced, this review essay aims to draw the contours of these claims, unpack them and show how valuable they can be to think about global algorithmic governance and the functions of international law in the equation.
In: Political geography: an interdisciplinary journal for all students of political studies with an interest in the geographical and spatial aspects, Band 109, S. 103066
ISSN: 0962-6298
In: Administrative theory & praxis: ATP ; a quarterly journal of dialogue in public administration theory, S. 1-21
ISSN: 1949-0461
In: Asia shorts number 18
"Global anti-Asian racism, particularly in the guise of Yellow Peril, has endured for centuries around the world. In Europe and the Americas, Asian immigrants and refugees were, and are, treated as threats to national security. Yellow Peril and anti-Asian racism is also found in Africa, Australia, and in Asian nations as well. Wherever Asian immigrants and refugees found themselves, anti-Asian sentiments quickly followed. The contributors to Global Anti-Asian Racism investigate the varied manifestations of prejudice and violence that Asians have endured through the 17th century to the twin pandemics of anti-Asian racism during COVID-19. From historical case studies in Mexico and Brazil to personal ruminations of people who are Asian German, mixed-race Swedish-Japanese, and adopted Korean American, to graphic narratives and poetic explorations, the essays in this volume illuminate the multifaceted nature of global anti-Asian racism and the resilience of Asians across the world to resist and counter this bigotry and bias"--