Symposium Review: 25th Anniversary of Moral Boundaries by Joan Tronto

Preface (1999) Preface (1990) 1. Subjects of Sex/Gender/Desire I. 'Women' as the Subject of Feminism II. The Compulsory Order of Sex/Gender/Desire III. Gender: The Circular Ruins of Contemporary Debate IV. Theorizing the Binary, the Unitary and Beyond V. Identity, Sex and the Metaphysics of Substance VI. Language, Power and the Strategies of Displacement 2. Prohibition, Psychoanalysis, and the Production of the Heterosexual Matrix I. Structuralism's Critical Exchange II. Lacan, Riviere, and the Strategies of Masquerade III. Freud and the Melancholia of Gender IV. Gender Complexity and the Limits of Identification V. Reformulating Prohibition as Power 3. Subversive Bodily Acts I. The Body Politics of Julia Kristeva II. Foucault, Herculine, and the Politics of Sexual Discontinuity III. Monique Wittig - Bodily Disintegration and Fictive Sex IV. Bodily Inscriptions, Performative Subversions Conclusion - From Parody to Politics

Postmodern Subjects, Postmodern BodiesThinking Fragments: Psychoanalysis, Feminism, and Postmodernism in the Contemporary WestYearning: Race, Gender, and Cultural PoliticsGender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity

Agriculture, Forestry, and Other Land Use (AFOLU) is unique among the sectors considered in this volume, since the mitigation potential is derived from both an enhancement of removals of greenhouse gases (GHG), as well as reduction of emissions through management of land and livestock (robust evidence; high agreement). The land provides food that feeds the Earth’s human population of ca. 7 billion, fibre for a variety of purposes, livelihoods for billions of people worldwide, and is a critical resource for sustainable development in many regions. Agriculture is frequently central to the livelihoods of many social groups, especially in developing countries where it often accounts for a significant share of production. In addition to food and fibre, the land provides a multitude of ecosystem services; climate change mitigation is just one of many that are vital to human well-being (robust evidence; high agreement). Mitigation options in the AFOLU sector, therefore, need to be assessed, as far as possible, for their potential impact on all other services provided by land. [Section 11.1]

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Agriculture, Forestry and Other Land Use (AFOLU)

This paper examines how and for what reasons rural residents come to care about the environment. Focusing on Kumaon, India, it explores the deep and durable relationship between government and subjectivity and shows how regulatory strategies associated with and resulting from community decision making help transform those who participate in government. Using evidence drawn from the archival record and fieldwork conducted over two time periods, it analyzes the extent to which varying levels of involvement in institutional regimes of environmental regulation facilitate new ways of understanding the environment. On the basis of this analysis, it outlines a framework of understanding that permits the joint consideration of the technologies of power and self that are responsible for the emergence of new political subjects.

Environmentality : Community, intimate government, and the making of environmental subjects in Kumaon, India

Performance-based payments are key, yet limited. Payments based on performance directly incentivise and compensate forest owners and users. But schemes such as payments for environmental services (PES) depend on conditions, such as secure tenure, solid carbon data and transparent governance, that are often lacking and take time to change. This constraint reinforces the need for broad institutional and policy reforms.

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Realising Redd+: National strategy and policy options

At Copenhagen, the Ad Hoc Working Group on Long-term Cooperative Action (AWG-LCA) was ready to endorse REDD-plus and to make explicit reference to the “rights of indigenous peoples and members of local communities” (UNFCCC, 2009). The reference is important because it acknowledges the historical background from which REDD-plus is developing: the historical dispossession, political exclusion and cultural marginalization of indigenous peoples and members of local communities (hereafter referred to as “forest people”). Recent experience with the recognition of forest people's rights suggests three broad principles for operationalizing rights under REDD-plus: participation in political decision-making, equitable distribution of forest benefits, and recognition of forest people's particular identities. In addition, the emphasis on rights requires the development of decision-making processes at multiple scales and related across scales. Global-scale institutions will be important but not sufficient in themselves. Effective and equitable REDD-plus requires nested forest and climate governance.

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REDD-plus, forest people's rights and nested climate governance

The affective labor of growing forests and the becoming of environmental subjects: Rethinking environmentality in Odisha, India

This paper looks at two interfacing trends shaping devolution of forest management in India: i appropriation of space for forest management by diverse self-initiated community formations at the grass roots level despite state seizure of forests ii state-driven devolution where government policies define the scope of local authority in forest management The paper assesses whether state devolution policies are increasing or decreasing space for exercising democratic control over forest decisions, enhancing livelihoods and improving forest quality This paper is based on research studies undertaken in three states, Orissa, Madya Pradesh and Uttarakhan region of Uttar Pradesh It concludes that meaningful devolution requires nurturing democratic, self-dependent women and men to make real choices for enhancing sustainable livelihoods in accordance with their own priorities This needs to be accompanied by holistic forest sector reform processes with multi-sectoral and multi-stakeholder participation in the context of the growing threats posed by market-driven globalisation to genuine devolution and democratisation

Neera M. Singh

Papers

REDD-plus, forest people's rights and nested climate governance

The affective labor of growing forests and the becoming of environmental subjects: Rethinking environmentality in Odisha, India

Devolution As A Threat To Democratic Decision Making In Forestry?: Findings From Three States In India

Decentralisation and democratic forest reforms in India: Moving to a rights-based approach

Payments for ecosystem services and the gift paradigm: Sharing the burden and joy of environmental care