Third Side of the Coin: Hegemony and Governmentality in Global Climate Politics

Stephan, Benjamin; Rothe, Delf; Methmann, Chris

doi:10.1017/cbo9781107110069.007

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“…Through governmentalities, the actions of free subjects can be guided or conducted, not by an omnipotent powerholder, but via the establishment of different regimes of practices. Regimes of practices are the combination of activities that seek to address a problem in a specific way, without these practices necessarily being part of formal programmes (Stephan et al 2013). For example, a regime of practice is forming around marine conservation (Stafford and Jones 2019) that focuses attention on addressing individual behaviour (e.g.…”

Section: Msp Governmentalitymentioning

confidence: 99%

Assessing marine spatial planning governmentality

Flannery¹,

McAteer²

2020

Maritime Studies

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Marine spatial planning (MSP) is advanced by its champions as an impartial and rational process that can address complex management issues. We argue that MSP is not innately rational and that it problematises marine issues in specific ways, often reflecting hegemonic agendas. The illusion of impartial rationality in MSP is derived from governmentalities that appear progressive but serve elite interests. By understanding the creation of governmentalities, we can design more equitable planning processes. We conceptualise governmentalities as consisting of problematisations, rationalities and governance technologies, and assess England’s first marine plans to understand how specific governmentalities de-radicalise MSP. We find that progressive framings of MSP outcomes, such as enhanced well-being, are deployed by the government to garner early support for MSP. These elements, however, become regressively problematised in later planning phases, where they are framed by the government as being difficult to achieve and are pushed into future iterations of the process. Eviscerating progressive elements from the planning process clears the way for the government to focus on implementing a neoliberal form of MSP. Efforts to foster radical MSP must pay attention to the emergence of governmentalities, how they travel through time/space and be cognisant of where difference can be inserted into planning processes. Achieving progressive MSP will require the creation of a political frontier early in the process, which cannot be passed until pathways for progressive socio-environmental outcomes have been established; advocacy for disenfranchised groups; broadening MSP evaluations to account for unintended impacts; and the monitoring of progressive objectives.

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Section: Msp Governmentalitymentioning

confidence: 99%

Assessing marine spatial planning governmentality

Flannery¹,

McAteer²

2020

Maritime Studies

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“…But in addition to this quantification, the storyline also emphasizes the role of markets and the importance of perfecting and expanding their functioning in order to find costeffective solutions to environmental problems (Humphreys 2008). As such, deforestation is seen as a problem of missing or false incentives, resulting from a missing valuation of forest ecosystem services in the economic system (Stephan et al 2014). The storyline thus carries a win-win-win notion of achieving synergies between economic, ecological (biodiversity, water purification), and social aspects (poverty reduction, land tenure security) of REDD+ (Stern 2007).…”

Section: Storylines In Remote Sensingmentioning

confidence: 99%

Seeing the forest for the trees: identifying discursive convergence and dominance in complex REDD+ governance

Zelli¹,

Nielsen²,

Dubber³

2019

E&S

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Scholars of international law and international relations largely agree that global governance today, and global environmental governance in particular, is marked by institutional complexity. Environmental policy fields are, to varying degrees, governed by a plurality of institutions with different levels of legalization, membership, and jurisdictional scope, and with different degrees of coherence among them. The international governance architecture on Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation (REDD+) is a case in point. Located at the intersection of the governance systems on climate change, biodiversity, forestry, and development, REDD+ governance provides a stage where a large variety of intergovernmental and transnational institutions come together, collaborate, or compete on questions of standard-setting, financing, implementation, and evaluation. This complexity poses challenges to the effectiveness of REDD+ governance in general, but also to specific actor groups and organizations that lack the resources to understand and navigate such a fragmented governance landscape. Against this backdrop, we introduce an analytical framework to read and structure a complex governance architecture. The framework breaks new ground by adopting argumentative discourse analysis and the concept of storylines to the study of institutional complexity. We argue that beyond the messy surface of institutional complexity there may be a surprising degree of convergence, in the sense of discursive hierarchies that run across institutions, practices, and scales. We illustrate such a cross-cutting hierarchy for the complex REDD+ governance system, focusing on the sensitive issue of forest carbon monitoring. In our analysis of respective guidance documents and country reports, we find, underneath the institutional complexity across governance scales, a considerable dominance of techno-managerial perspectives and a preference for carbon commodification. This discursive hegemony and convergence resonates with the dominance of certain REDD+ funding institutions and the prioritization of the monitoring practice of remote sensing.

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“…It potentially poses the threat of re-centralization of forest management (Phelps et al, 2010;Vijge et al, 2016), and can also be seen as a medium for decreasing socio-economic resilience by converting natural resources into a commodity (Corbera, 2012;Fairhead et al, 2012;Osborne, 2015). discourse, which is an articulatory practice (Laclau & Mouffe, 2001;Stephan et al, 2014), devised to achieve the 'triple-wins' -carbon reduction, biodiversity conservation and poverty control (Angelsen & MacNeill, 2012;Luttrell et al, 2013). The articulatory practice puts in regimes of practice 30 through piloting, as in the case of Dolakha.…”

Section: Interaction Of Community Forestry With Redd+mentioning

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Are traditional and modern forestry institutions complementary or do they prescribe contradictory rights in Trans-Himalayan Nepal? A lesson to be learned for REDD+ implementation

Poudel

2017

Norsk Geografisk Tidsskrift - Norwegian Journal of Geography

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for their cooperation and comments. I am grateful to the staff of the Department of Geography for providing administrative as well as technical support during my PhD tenure. Special thanks go to Anne-Kathrin Thomassen, Marianne Soltveit and Gro Aase for their support in dealing with the practicalities of the department. I extend thanks to all of the academic staff and to my colleagues at the Department, especially Yograj Gautam, Madan K. Suwal and Kuber P. Bhatta for their cooperation and company, and for sharing many interesting discussions. Thanks also go to Tom Robson, Clare Tompsett and Armando Lamadrid for their cooperation in proofreading my work. I acknowledge the Norwegian State Education Loan Fund (Lånekassen) and the Department of Geography of UiB for their funding support. Thank you so much to the respondents of Dolakha and Mustang for providing enough time to talk with me and for making this research possible. I would also like to thank Aadesh, Aastha, Aayush, Bhimlal, Pradip, Laxmi, Samita and Urmila for their excellent assistance during the periods of fieldwork. I am also thankful to the Nepali Bergen Society (NEBERS) and its members for sharing happy times with me and my family during our stay in Bergen. I would like to express my sincere gratitude and love to my mother and late father, brothers, sisters-in-law, nieces and nephews for their untiring love and support, and also a huge thank you to my wife Prashansa and son Saransh for being my source of motivation. I owe them for their love, smiles, support and encouragement.

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Third Side of the Coin: Hegemony and Governmentality in Global Climate Politics

Cited by 8 publications

References 36 publications

Assessing marine spatial planning governmentality

Assessing marine spatial planning governmentality

Seeing the forest for the trees: identifying discursive convergence and dominance in complex REDD+ governance

Are traditional and modern forestry institutions complementary or do they prescribe contradictory rights in Trans-Himalayan Nepal? A lesson to be learned for REDD+ implementation

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