EU External Health Security Policy and Law
In: Forthcoming in: Research Handbook the EU's Common Foreign and Security Policy, Steven Blockmans and Panos Koutrakos
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In: Forthcoming in: Research Handbook the EU's Common Foreign and Security Policy, Steven Blockmans and Panos Koutrakos
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In: T. Hervey, Calum A. Young, Louise E Bishop, Research Handbook on EU Health Law and Policy, Edgar Elgar Publishing (2017)
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In: Forthcoming 2016 in Research Handbook on EU Health Law and Policy, Tamara K. Hervey, Calum A. Young and Louise E. Bishop (eds), Edward Elgar.
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In: Comparative European Politics (May 2017, Band 15, Heft 3
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In: in M. Weimer & A. de Ruijter (eds) Regulating Risks in the European Union (book - Hart Publishing), 2017
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In: Journal of European integration: Revue d'intégration européenne, Band 38, Heft 7, S. 837-843
ISSN: 1477-2280
In: Journal of European integration, Band 38, Heft 7, S. 837-7
ISSN: 0703-6337
In: Journal of European Integration (2016, Band 38, Heft 7
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In: Comparative European politics, Band 15, Heft 3, S. 370-393
ISSN: 1740-388X
During the last decades "Climate Change" has become a vital topic on national and international political agendas. There it is presented as an irrevocable fact of global impact and thus of universal relevance. What has often been neglected are local discourses of marginalized groups and their specific contextualization of "Climate Change" phenomena. The aim of this project, to develop another perspective along these dominant narratives, has resulted in the research question How is social reality reconstructed on the phenomenon of "Climate Change" among the "Emerging Black Farmers" in the Swartland region in Western Cape, South Africa? Taken as an example, "Climate Change Knowledge" is reconstructed through a case study on the information exchange between the NGO Goedgedacht Trust and local small-scale farmers in the post-Apartheid context of on-going political, social, economic and educational transition in South Africa. Applying a constructivist approach, "Climate Change Knowledge" is not understood as an objectively given, but a socially constructed "reality" that is based on the interdependency of socio-economic conditions and individual assets, including language skills and language practice, sets of social norms and values, as well as strategies of knowledge transfer. The data set consists of qualitative data sources, such as application forms and interview material, which are triangulated. The rationale of a multi-layered data analysis includes a discursive perspective as well as linguistic and ethical "side perspectives". Epistemologically, the thesis is guided by assumptions of complexity theory, framing knowledge around "Climate Change" as a fluid, constantly changing system that is shaped by constant intra- and inter-systemic exchange processes, and characterized by non-linearity, self-organization and representation of its constituents. From this point of departure, a theoretical terminology has been developed, which differentiates between symbols, interrelations, contents and content clusters. These elements are located in a system of spatio-temporal orientation and embedded into a broader (socio-economic) context of "historicity". Content clusters are remodelled with the help of concept maps. Starting from that, a local perspective on "Climate Change" is developed, adding an experiential notion to the global narratives. The thesis concludes that there is no single reality about "Climate Change" and that the farmers' "Climate Change Knowledge" highly depends on experiential relativity and spatio-temporal immediacy. Furthermore, analysis has shown that the system's historicity and social manifestations can be traced in the scope and emphasis of the content clusters discussed. Finally the thesis demonstrates that characteristics of symbols, interconnections and contents range between dichotomies of direct and indirect, predictable versus unpredictable, awareness and negligence or threat and danger, all coexisting and creating a continuum of knowledge production.
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In: Comparative European politics: CEP
ISSN: 1472-4790
In: Journal of European social policy, Band 21, Heft 3, S. 278-279
ISSN: 1461-7269
In: Journal of European social policy, Band 21, Heft 3, S. 278-280
ISSN: 0958-9287
In: Scenarios for Success: Turning Insights into Action Edited by Bill Sharpe and Kees Van der Heijden © 2007 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd
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