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Challenging Global Environmental Governance: Social Movement Agency and Global Civil Society
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This article argued that accounts of global environmental governance grounded in orthodox International Relations lack an analysis of agency and power relations, and argued that the potentiality of radical social movement agency is best understood through a neo-Gramscian approach, which identifies global civil society as simultaneously a site for the maintenance of, as well as challenges to, hegemony.Abstract:
In line with a critical theoretical perspective, which sees global environmental governance as embedded in the wider neoliberal global political economy, this article argues that accounts of global environmental governance grounded in orthodox International Relations lack an analysis of agency and power relations. This is particularly visible in the problematic assertion that global civil society—where social movements are said to be located—presents a democratizing force for global environmental governance. Through a critical conceptualization of agency the article analyzes social movements (including NGOs) and the challenges to global environmental governance, with an illustration of movements campaigning against toxic waste. It suggests that the potentiality of radical social movement agency is best understood through a neo-Gramscian approach, which identifies global civil society as simultaneously a site for the maintenance of, as well as challenges to, hegemony. It explores the extent to which global...read more
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Gramsci, hegemonía y relaciones internacionales: Un ensayo sobre el método | Gramsci, Hegemony and International Relations: An Essay in Method
TL;DR: Cox as mentioned in this paper discusses various gramscian concepts and what their implications are for the study of different historical forms of hegemony and counter-hegemony, and suggests that these could have a revolutionary effect on international structures and organizations, as well as rupture with the hegemony performed by the transnational economic order.
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Reconfiguring environmental governance: Towards a politics of scales and networks
TL;DR: In this paper, a new spatial grammar of environmental governance must be sensitive to both the politics of scale and the power of networks, rather than considering scalar and non-scalar interpretations of spatiality as necessarily opposite.
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Social capital: a necessary and sufficient condition for sustainable community development?
Ann Dale,Lenore Newman +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors explored the role of government in a case study outlining the actions of a local community initiative in a marginalized neighbourhood of Vancouver, in order to optimize their access to outside economic and human resources.
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Environmental governance for sustainable tourism development: Collaborative networks and organisation building in the Antalya tourism region
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors analyze the role of governance networks in sustainable tourism development, highlighting the importance of different scales of collaborative governance networks and the role in building sustainable tourism networks.
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The Politics of Multi-Stakeholder Initiatives: The Crisis of the Forest Stewardship Council
TL;DR: The Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) as discussed by the authors is a non-state regulatory experiment, which was launched as a transnational multi-stakeholder initiative, administering a global eco-labeling scheme for timber and forest products.
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Activists beyond Borders: Advocacy Networks in International Politics
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