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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... studies and international rela- tions . The insight that local knowledge is not merely place - based but is con- stituted within particular communities , histories , institutional settings , and expert cultures emerged from discussions ...
... studies in this volume begin by asking what is meant by " global " and " local , " and how the meanings of these words connect to political struggles around varied environmental regimes . Each chapter examines how the dynamics of ...
... studies ( S & TS ) provide the intellectual backbone of the project as a whole , but the chapters are also informed by approaches from such fields as anthropology , sociology , law , political science , and political ecology . Our ...
... studies of climate impacts . Early work on sea level rise , extreme weather events , and crop yields tended to focus on how changes in climate parameters would affect ecological and social systems on global or near- global scales ...
... studies in Africa , Latin America , and elsewhere , these works contend that practices of indigenous farming ... studies , let alone in science and technology studies . " Information " is the word that comes closest to knowledge in the ...
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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