Introduction: Studying Global Environmental Meetings to Understand Global Environmental Governance: Collaborative Event Ethnography at the Tenth Conference of the Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity

Lisa M. Campbell, Catherine Corson, Noella J. Gray, Kenneth I. MacDonald and Peter Brosius
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Lisa M. Campbell: Associate Professor in Marine Affairs and Policy, in the Nicholas School of Environment, Duke University
Catherine Corson: Miller Worley Assistant Professor of Environmental Studies at Mount Holyoke College
Noella J. Gray: Assistant Professor in the Department of Geography at the University of Guelph
Kenneth I. MacDonald: Associate Professor in the Department of Human Geography at the University of Toronto, and is core faculty in the Centre for Critical Development Studies and the Centre for Diaspora and Transnational Studies
Peter Brosius: Professor of anthropology and Director of the Center for Integrative Conservation Research at the University of Georgia

Global Environmental Politics, 2014, vol. 14, issue 3, 1-20

Abstract: This special issue introduces readers to collaborative event ethnography (CEE), a method developed to support the ethnographic study of large global environmental meetings. CEE was applied by a group of seventeen researchers at the Tenth Conference of the Parties (COP10) to the Convention of Biological Diversity (CBD) to study the politics of biodiversity conservation. In this introduction, we describe our interests in global environmental meetings as sites where the politics of biodiversity conservation can be observed and as windows into broader governance networks. We specify the types of politics we attend to when observing such meetings and then describe the CBD, its COP, challenges meetings pose for ethnographic researchers, how CEE responds to these challenges generally, and the specifics of our research practices at COP10. Following a summary of the contributed papers, we conclude by reflecting on the evolution of CEE over time. © 2014 by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Keywords: ethnography; CEE; COP10; Convention of Biological Diversity; CBD; biodiversity conservation (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: P48 Q20 Q28 Q50 Q56 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2014
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