The right to resist: disciplining civil society at Rio+20

Corson, Catherine; Brady, Bridget; Zuber, Ahdi; Lord, Julianna; Kim, Angela

doi:10.1080/03066150.2014.992884

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“…Rio+20, which was held in Rio de Janeiro in 2012, twenty years after the inaugural and highly influential Earth Summit of 1992, brought together delegates from over 190 countries. These included representatives from state governments, the corporate sector and civil society (the latter represented by an array of actors from different social movements, non-governmental organizations (NGOs), indigenous and Quilombo communities and religious groups) (Corson, Brady, Zuber, Lord, & Kim, 2015). Agriculture and food security were among the topics debated at this summit, with representatives taking very different and sometimes diametrically opposed positions on the issues involved.…”

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A Transnational Agri-Food System for Whom? The Struggle for Hegemony at Rio+20

2016

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Food has been one of the most debated and contested discourses in recent global environmental governance without this fact being reflected, however, in management and organizational studies (MOS). In this paper, we analyze the different positions taken in relation to the transnational agri-food system by the state sector, the private sector and civil society actors and we map key differences and similarities in the discourses of these groups at the influential 2012 Rio+20 Conference. Using neo-Gramscian discourse theory, we uncover the different politico-economic interests that exist and show how these different actors deal with the agri-food system. We demonstrate that international NGOs and grassroots social movements are very diverse in how they approach the question of food security, which in turn is reflected in how they vary in their approach to doing politics. This analysis contributes to our understanding of how hegemony is organized, highlighting the important role of different civil society actors in either maintaining or resisting hegemonic approaches to the transnational agri-food system. KEYWORDS | Agri-food system, neo-Gramscian discourse approach, civil society, Rio+20, sustainable development. RESUMO RAE-Revista de Administração de Empresas | FGV/EAESP

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“…Similarly, Kandel (2015) noted that even when improvements in global governance frameworks were achieved, the outcome was to privilege the inclusion of certain voices, meanwhile failing to address the needs of those most vulnerable, including those most affected by carbon market projects. Corson et al (2015) also described civil society as being disciplined by governance processes in ways that sidelined radical views, with outcomes that legitimized the green economy as the status quo.…”

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“…This ecologically modernist shift (Mol 2000) positions NGOs as key actors in deliberative processes that are market-based. The green economy, legitimized by the Rio+20 United Nations Environment Program in its Towards a green economy: pathways to sustainable development and poverty eradication (2011), and with a specific participatory process for civil society inclusion (Corson et al 2015), is one approach to the privatization of environmental management and the integration of NGOs into an economy of environmental governance. Yet stakeholder-based approaches can be ad hoc and often informal, and as such are often riddled with problems, including their degree of democratic content, as well as the contradictory tensions and uneven power relationships embedded within them (Dryzek 2000;Swyngedouw 2005).…”

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“…Amongst these carbon trade initiatives are an array of plantation forestry initiatives, such as Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and forest Degradation (REDD+), as well as the related Afforestation/Reforestation Clean Development Mechanism and Voluntary Carbon Market initiatives, which we refer to collectively as REDD type projects. Africa-based social movements have engaged with such initiatives since the early 2000s, alongside global movements and the formal inclusion of civil society in UN-related processes (Corson et al 2015). In this article we examine engagement with, and responses to, plantation forestry/carbon market initiatives amongst a number of NGOs working at the local level, most of which also have international connections.…”

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“…Bassey, along with others (Bond 2013;O'Brien and Leichenko 2010), describes global warming as giving rise to a new order of social, ecological and economic impacts, and with an estimated cost of US$36.6 billion per year (Health Poverty Action 2015). In parallel, the 'green economy' and associated green forms of governance have become a key foci of global responses to climate change, including as part of the now ratified United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) 2015 Paris Agreement (Corson et al 2015). Green economic processes are increasing pressure to convert forests, agricultural lands (and other landscapes) into alternative land uses related to so-called green economic activities; including biofuels, timber, pulp and paper, and agribusiness plantations (Nielsen 2016;Mwangi and Wardell 2012).…”

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The right to resist: disciplining civil society at Rio+20

Cited by 31 publications

References 52 publications

A Transnational Agri-Food System for Whom? The Struggle for Hegemony at Rio+20

A Transnational Agri-Food System for Whom? The Struggle for Hegemony at Rio+20

Reforming global carbon markets or re-imagining alternative climate solutions and sustainabilities? An analysis of selected NGO strategies in Uganda

What's in a term? “Green growth” and the “blue‐green economy” in the Pacific islands

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