Dear All,
We're putting together a panel on Conceptual and Methodological Innovation in GEP for ISA. It would be great to have paper proposals presenting new ideas, concepts and methods for unpacking the complexities of global environmental action (see proposal below). If you have something you'd like to present please email me: Hannah ([email protected]) Conceptual and Methodological Innovation in Global Environmental Politics Chair: Jean-Frédéric Morin Discussant: Steven Bernstein The study of international environmental issues has led to a number of important conceptual innovations in International Relations. Attempts to understand the role of non-state actors and the power of knowledge in the construction of environmental problems has been particularly important. Thus, concepts such as epistemic community, knowledge brokers and discourse coalitions, which were designed to illuminate the forms of knowledge and expertise informing the international community's response to shared environmental issues, have proven to have wider explanatory power in the study of IR. More recently, scholarship interested in exploring the influence of international bureaucracies in environmental governance has clearly demonstrated that secretariats need to be understood and analysed as more than just functionaries. This scholarship offers new conceptual tools for unpacking and comparing the influence of secretariats as actors in world politics and highlights the significance of global environmental politics as a site for methodological innovation. The intention of this panel is to offer a space for GEP scholars to identify and share new concepts and methodological approaches relevant for understanding, explaining and presenting research into the complexities of global environmental action. The aim is to explore how these new methods may help us build research problematics that can unpack these complexities and develop critical analytical tools that may also have broader purchase in understanding other fields of international action. Paper 1: Hannah Hughes and Alice Vadrot Weighted Concepts: Conceptualising the Political Struggle over Biocultural Diversity in IPBES YOUR PAPER: ? _________________________________________________ Dr Hannah Hughes Lecturer in International Relations | Darlithydd mewn Cysylltiadau Rhyngwladol http://www.cardiff.ac.uk/politics-international-relations/profile/hannah-hughes/ School of Law and Politics, Cardiff University Ysgol y Gyfraith a Gwleidyddiaeth, Prifysgol Caerdydd -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "gep-ed" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
