Earthly Politics: Local and Global in Environmental GovernanceSheila Jasanoff, Marybeth Martello MIT Press, 2004 M03 19 - 376 pages Globalization today is as much a problem for international harmony as it is a necessary condition of living together on our planet. Increasing interconnectedness in ecology, economy, technology, and politics has brought nations and societies into even closer contact, creating acute demands for cooperation. Earthly Politics argues that in the coming decades global governance will have to accommodate differences even as it obliterates distance, and will have to respect many aspects of the local while developing institutions that transcend localism. This book analyzes a variety of environmental-governance approaches that balance the local and the global in order to encourage new, more flexible frameworks of global governance. On the theoretical level, it draws on insights from the field of science and technology studies to enrich our understanding of environmental-development politics. On the pragmatic level, it discusses the design of institutions and processes to address problems of environmental governance that increasingly refuse to remain within national boundaries. The cases in the book display the crucial relationship between knowledge and power—the links between the ways we understand environmental problems and the ways we manage them—and illustrate the different paths by which knowledge-power formations are arrived at, contested, defended, or set aside. By examining how local and global actors ranging from the World Bank to the Makah tribe in the Pacific Northwest respond to the contradictions of globalization, the authors identify some of the conditions for creating more effective engagement between the global and the local in environmental governance. |
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... United Nations and the World Bank took the task of management on a global scale . Just as modern states had done in the twentieth century ( Price 1965 ; Mukerji 1989 ; Ezrahi 1990 ; Jasanoff 1990 ; Solingen 1994 ; Rueschemeyer and ...
... United States , for example , or on small islands such as Samoa . Acting under a 1990 law , the US government in 2000 completed its own assessment of the national consequences of climate variability and change ( USGCRP 2000 ) . The ...
... united only by a common vulnerability - the threat of extinction from sea- level rise . Armed with the strongest of normative claims , the right to live , this odd association emerged in the 1990s as one of 8 Martello and Jasanoff.
... United Nations meetings and conferences , where they fight not only for their cultural and political rights , but also for the recognition of their knowledges and envi- ronmental practices . Constituted by and through their experiences ...
Contents
Heaven and Earth The Politics of Environmental Images | 31 |
Knowing and Ruling | 53 |
Imperial Science Imperial Nature Environmental Knowledge for the World Bank | 55 |
Resisting Empire Globalism Relocalization and the Politics of Knowledge | 81 |
The Local the Global and the Kyoto Protocol | 103 |
When Global Is Local Negotiating Safe Use of Biotechnology | 127 |
Globalism and National Politics | 149 |
Transnational Locals Brazilian Experiences of the Climate Regime | 151 |
Merchants of Diversity Scientists as Traffickers of Plants and Institutions | 217 |
Knowledge Communities | 239 |
Knowing the Urban Wasteland Ecological Expertise as Local Process | 241 |
Negotiating Global Nature and Local Culture The Case of Makah Whaling | 263 |
Patching Local and Global Knowledge Together Citizens Inside the US Chemical Industry | 285 |
Ordering Environments Regions in European International Environmental Cooperation | 309 |
Knowledge and Governance | 335 |
About the Authors | 351 |
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