Capturing the Personal in Politics: Ethnographies of Global Environmental Governance

Catherine Corson, Lisa M. Campbell and Kenneth Iain MacDonald
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Catherine Corson: Miller Worley Assistant Professor of Environmental Studies at Mount Holyoke College
Lisa M. Campbell: Rachel Carson Associate Professor in Marine Affairs and Policy, in the Nicholas School of Environment, Duke University
Kenneth Iain 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

Global Environmental Politics, 2014, vol. 14, issue 3, 21-40

Abstract: In this article we elaborate on how we use collaborative event ethnography to study global environmental governance. We discuss how it builds on traditional forms of ethnography, as well as on approaches that use ethnography to study policy-making in multiple institutional and geographical sites. We argue that global environmental meetings and negotiations offer opportunities to study critical historical moments in the making of emergent regimes of global environmental governance, and that collaborative ethnography can capture the day-to-day practices that constitute policy paradigm shifts. In this method, the negotiations themselves are not the object of study, but rather how they reflect and transform relations of power in environmental governance. Finally, we propose a new approach to understanding and examining global environmental governance -- one that views the ethnographic field as constituted by relationships across time and space that come together at sites such as meetings. © 2014 by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Keywords: collaborative event ethnography; CEE; ethnography; global environmental governance (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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