« On ne fait pas de politique ! » Les pratiques de dépolitisation au PNUD et au PNUE

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Controversial Practices: Tracing the Proceduralization of the IPCC in Time and Space

“…The focus on practices, encouraged by the practice turn in international relations (PTIR), has contributed to a better understanding of IOs’ day‐to‐day activities both at the headquarters and in the field (Græger, 2017; Müller, 2018; Niezen and Sapignoli, 2017). It helped reconstruct the production and diffusion of international documents and artefacts (Adler‐Nissen and Drieschova 2020; Dimitrov, 2016; Fresia, 2014; Maertens and Parizet, 2017; Siroux, 2008); following the strategies of marginalized actors to internationalize their voices (Suiseeya and Zanotti, 2019); and exploring IOs as sites of knowledge generation (Bueger, 2015). The PTIR has also contributed to open up the debate about change in the practices of IOs following constraints and opportunities that are both endogenous and exogenous, cultural and material (Bode, 2018; Hopf, 2018).…”

Climate Change and Its Lexicon: An Analytical and Critical View

“…We may think, however, that, despite all problems and stalemates, the process has moved forward and can, and will surely, move further in the direction of seriously addressing the problems that beset us (Dahan, 2016 ). Yet it is important to bring out and stand against the ‘depoliticisation’ of the debate and, as this article has laid out, of the lexicon we have previously examined, which is indeed underpinned by political issues and choices, despite their apparent technicality (see for instance, for other, related issues, either encompassing or regarding the environment the following authors, though only the last cursorily deals with climate change: Petiteville, 2018 ; Maertens & Parizet, 2017 ; Louis & Maertens, 2021 ).…”

Ethics as a tool of value denial in the EU’s governance of scientific and technological innovation

“…An emerging body of literature has started to focus on depoliticisation as an intentional process through which political problems are presented in technical terms in order to insulate policymaking, pre-empt conflicts and eventually push for certain reforms ( Maertens and Parizet 2017 ;Maertens 2018 ;Stone 2017 ). The depoliticisation can be defined as "the set of processes (including varied tactics, strategies, and tools) that remove or displace the potential for choice, collective agency, and deliberation around a particular political issue" ( Hay 2014 : 293).…”

“…Scholars have shown that depoliticisation takes place in both domestic and supranational arenas, through institutional mechanisms, such as the creation of delegated agencies to advise on and make policy decisions, new forms of indirect and/or privatised governance such as "global public-private partnerships" and private "self-regulation" initiatives ( Stone 2017 ;Beveridge and Naumann 2014 ), framing tactics designed to technicalise issues ( Maertens 2017 ) or what has been called "depoliticised political discourses" ( Bourdieu 1982 : 155). In anthropology, recent insights have portrayed international bureaucracies as "anti-politics machines", which produce consensus through a discourse of harmony as a way of not addressing political controversies ( Müller 2013 ).…”