Dear everyone - thank you for such an informative, interesting and inspiring set of responses to my query. Here is the compilation!
Best, Kate >From Leah Stokes: One option is you could assign something from our podcast, A Matter of Degrees. bit.ly/degreespod <http://bit.ly/degreespod> - I know other faculty are using it in class. We did a nice forward looking episode on electrification and cleaning up the energy system by 2035 (episode 3). Reed Kurtz: Please excuse the self-promotion but I did just have a (very short) snap analysis of the 2020 election and its impact on global environmental issues/climate justice come out today: https://www.electionanalysis.ws/us/president2020/section-1-policy-and-political-context/u-s-presidential-politics-and-planetary-crisis-in-2020/ <https://www.electionanalysis.ws/us/president2020/section-1-policy-and-political-context/u-s-presidential-politics-and-planetary-crisis-in-2020/> I definitely wrote it for a general audience and students, and I tried to be as 'positive' looking forward as possible. In particular I talk a bit about the shift in discourse I see regarding a "Green New Deal decade" as well as make some linkage to recent events in Chile as well as the grassroots organizing by folks like Stacy Abrams as sources of hope and inspiration for the struggles ahead. Hope this is helpful! Dana Fisher: Going in a really different direction, here's a recent theoretical piece by Andrew Jorgenson and me that asks broad questions about risk, decision-making, and the Environment. Pdf is available here: https://www.asanet.org/ending-stalemate-toward-theory-anthro-shift <https://www.asanet.org/ending-stalemate-toward-theory-anthro-shift> Rasmus Karlson Chapter in: J. C. Pereira and A. Saramago (eds.), Non-Human Nature in World Politics, Frontiers in International Relations, https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-49496-4_6 <https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-49496-4_6> On Conflicting Temporalities and the Ecomodernist Vision of Rewilding Susi Moser: How about a selection from All We Can Save? www.allwecansave.earth <http://www.allwecansave.earth/> Doreen Stabinsky: Bina Venkataraman TED talk <https://www.ted.com/talks/bina_venkataraman_the_power_to_think_ahead_in_a_reckless_age?language=en> (The Power to Think Ahead in a Reckless Age; 2019) Stuart Candy, Whose future is this? <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YxgVxu2mdZI> Keri Facer, All our futures? <https://futuresconference2019.files.wordpress.com/2019/08/keri_facer_csf2019.pdf> Climate change, democracy & missing public spaces Keri Facer, Learning to live with a lively planet <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DZmJgEepq7g> There’s also the AOC video message from the future. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d9uTH0iprVQ <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d9uTH0iprVQ> Libby Lundstrom: I always close my GEC course out with these videos; both offer some degree of hope and idea of a more open future if we get our act together. I think both have won awards too I think given their not-entirely-dystopian stance. https://www.youtube.com/watch?reload=9&v=v1iJ7X_OuQI <https://www.youtube.com/watch?reload=9&v=v1iJ7X_OuQI> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sacc_x-XB1Y <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sacc_x-XB1Y> Simon Dalby: Kim Stanley Robinson's new novel "The Ministry for the Future". Alas it's a little long at over 500 pages, but ...!!!? It is hilarious, and with an Irish character, one Mary Murphy, at the heart of saving the world, what's not to like? Radoslav Dimitrov: Gabriela Iacobuta, Navroz K. Dubash, Prabhat Upadhyaya, Mekdelawit Deribe & Niklas Höhne (2018) National climate change mitigation legislation, strategy and targets: a global update, Climate Policy, 18:9, 1114-1132, DOI: 10.1080/14693062.2018.1489772 Maria Ivanova: Escobar-Pemberthy, N.; Ivanova, M. Implementation of Multilateral Environmental Agreements: Rationale and Design of the Environmental Conventions Index. Sustainability 2020, 12, 7098. At https://www.mdpi.com/2071-1050/12/17/7098 <https://www.mdpi.com/2071-1050/12/17/7098> Peter Newell: For the climate session I did last week, I presented on the international politics and negotiations and them got them to research different ‘bottom-up’ initiatives aligned with their own theories of change (community, NGO, city, corporate actions) using some of the links below and discuss their potential and limitations. Leave it in the Ground campaign (Links to an external site.) <http://%20http/leave-it-in-the-ground.org/%C2%A0> Centre for Alternative Technology (Links to an external site.) <http://www.cat.org.uk/index.html> <http://www.cat.org.uk/index.html> 350.org (Links to an external site.) <https://350.org/%C2%A0> Rapid Transition Alliance (Links to an external site.) <https://www.rapidtransition.org/> Seeds of a Good Anthropocene (Links to an external site.) <https://goodanthropocenes.net/%C2%A0> C40 (Links to an external site.) <https://www.c40.org/%C2%A0> ICLEI (Links to an external site.) <https://iclei.org/%C2%A0> Fossil Free (Links to an external site.) <https://gofossilfree.org/uk/%C2%A0> Reasons to be cheerful (Links to an external site.) <https://www.reasonstobecheerful.world/> In terms of a paper that covers some of this, I just published a paper with Andrew Simms which looks at the politics and possibilities of rapid transitions (attached) and its more public facing predecessor ‘How did we do that? The possibility of rapid transition’. Johannes Stripple This is leaning toward the more imaginative side, but we have written a tourist guide to an imagined coastal city in a decarbonised Europe circa 2045, we call it ’Rough Planet Notterdam’. https://www.reinvent-project.eu/roughplanetguide <https://www.reinvent-project.eu/roughplanetguide> "The Rough Planet Guide declines to answer the question of “how do we make the decarbonisation transition happen?”, in favour of the question “how might we live in a successfully decarbonised Europe?” Thinking through the polyphony of the latter sheds new light on the former, not least because it makes it clear that there is more than one pathway to a post-fossil Europe. This book is not a prophecy or promise, but it is a possibility. This book is not optimistic, but it is hopeful. This book is a fiction… but it is built upon the best truths we could find during the four-year interdisciplinary work research work done by many people across Europe." It’s free to download. Here is a recent blogpost https://www.rapidtransition.org/commentaries/tour-tomorrow-today-why-we-made-a-travel-guide-to-an-imaginary-future-city/ <https://www.rapidtransition.org/commentaries/tour-tomorrow-today-why-we-made-a-travel-guide-to-an-imaginary-future-city/> It deals with sectors like steel, plastic, meat, dairy and transport so there are some harder political economies below the surface in the book. Ben Sovacool: Another one could be to look at visions of the energy and climate future itself, which we tried to do systematically in this open access study, published in Social Studies of Science: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/0306312720915283 <https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/0306312720915283> The visions cover many different energy systems or social innovations (nuclear, EVs, divestment), are positive and negative, and are drawn from robust mixed methods research. Maybe worth exposing your class to Roopali Phadke: I was teaching an environmental politics class last Spring when all hell broke loose. I pivoted my final project and designed a new group project oriented around the new Bezos foundation and Covid. Students enjoyed it, and some of their projects were really terrific. It got them to think critically about climate change solutions, esp by playing in the neoliberal-philanthropic space. [I’m sure you can contact her for details!] Jeff Colgan: You’ve already got a ton of good suggestions, but if you’re looking for something really tangible and policy-oriented, you could use our new report to the Biden Admin on how they can use executive orders on climate change to advance their overall US foreign policy agenda: https://watson.brown.edu/files/watson/imce/news/explore/2020/Final%20CSL%20Report.pdf <https://watson.brown.edu/files/watson/imce/news/explore/2020/Final%20CSL%20Report.pdf> > > > >> On Nov 15, 2020, at 12:40 PM, Kate O'NEILL <[email protected] >> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: >> >> Dear all - this is a rougher semester than usual in terms of finishing a >> Global Environmental Politics course on a strong note. I was wondering if >> anyone had any thoughts on an article, chapter or other resource that might >> help round it out. I have a Biden and Climate/Paris piece >> <https://www.carbonbrief.org/media-reaction-what-joe-bidens-us-election-victory-means-for-climate-change?fbclid=IwAR01IxkEEKXyPa_M7Y9bizU2nXB67hmB4ffdOIJVRz6_u-1n01md4Yr02wI> >> and connecting COVID to climate disasters/colonialism article >> <https://theconversation.com/from-covid-19-to-the-climate-emergency-lessons-from-this-global-crisis-for-the-next-one-146673>, >> but I’m looking for a “next ten years of global environmental politics” >> piece, and, more importantly, something contemporary that might engage their >> imaginations in terms of thinking into the future or more widely about the >> world (I know that’s vague but I want to shift them out of their immediate >> stressful present if just for a moment. Doesn't have to be rosy but >> something that isn’t doom and end of the world). >> >> As always, send suggestions to me and I’ll compile for the list! >> >> All best to you all, >> >> Kate >> >> *************************************** >> Kate O'Neill >> Professor >> Chair of the Society and Environment Division, >> Department of Environmental Science, Policy and Management, >> University of California at Berkeley >> [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> >> @kmoneill2530 >> Website <https://ourenvironment.berkeley.edu/people/kate-o039neill> >> WASTE <http://politybooks.com/bookdetail/?isbn=9780745687391&subject_id=2> >> (Polity Press, 2019) >> >> >> >> >> -- >> 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] >> <mailto:[email protected]>. >> To view this discussion on the web visit >> https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/gep-ed/596983B9-0F7C-4BC5-8461-25B6811FFF9A%40berkeley.edu >> >> <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/gep-ed/596983B9-0F7C-4BC5-8461-25B6811FFF9A%40berkeley.edu?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer>. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "gep-ed" group. 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