Hello Everyone, Thanks so much for your rapid replies to my query. Unfortunately I did not get to show anything this time around due to technological constraints but will probably assign a few videos as homework and look forward to using some of this material in class next year. All responses are pasted below, along with various sources of "exciting" or informative videos that I found myself/use in other classes as per a request from one respondent (end of the list).
For those who were wondering about the pedagogy here, this particular lecture is based on an assigned reading, Young 2001 on collective action vs. social practice approaches. I happen to know that I've got a large number of students who are already heavily biased towards the collective action/logic of consequences stance, so I was hoping that showing the tedium of "day to day" negotiations might open their minds to the possibility that social practice could be important under certain circumstances. Plus, I think it would be good for them to see what negotiations look like in general, so that would be two birds with one stone. Thanks again all, dgwebster Original query: I've been thinking about ways to make my class tomorrow on the logic of consequences vs. the logic of appropriateness more real to my students and came up with the idea of showing a short video that demonstrates the tedium that occurs between breakthroughs at environmental negotiations. Unfortunately, I'm not finding anything on the web--or more accurately, I'm finding many options but none that actually fit the bill. If any of you have recommendations for videos or other activities that show the procedural side of global environmental governance I'd greatly appreciate your suggestions. As usual, please send to me off list and I will compile. "Boring" suggestions: I haven't looked at these, but this seems promising: http://www.iisd.ca/videos/. I don't have an idea for a video, but you could read over some of the reports from Earth Negotiations Bulletin http://www.iisd.ca/voltoc.html or LInkages www.iisd.ca, which capture some of the tedium/minutiae. If you compile a list of video, I'd love to read it! Also, if you have any videos that show exciting parts of environmental negotiations, that would be helpful for me as well. I'm currently teaching a course on environmental negotiation at Middlebury. Nothing beats the UNFCCC! Most meetings have been webcasted and archived since at least Bali (COP 13), so you have your pick of boring procedural sessions. For a recent particularly unproductive procedural debate, you may check the "Subsidiary Body for Implementation (SBI)" in Bonn last summer, when they could not even agree on the agenda. · Subsidiary Body for Implementation (SBI), 1st meeting: http://unfccc4.meta-fusion.com/kongresse/sb38/templ/play.php?id_kongresssession=6438&theme=unfccc · Subsidiary Body for Implementation (SBI), resumed 1st meeting http://unfccc4.meta-fusion.com/kongresse/sb38/templ/play.php?id_kongresssession=6441&theme=unfccc · Subsidiary Body for Implementation (SBI), resumed 1st meeting [part 1]: http://unfccc4.meta-fusion.com/kongresse/sb38/templ/play.php?id_kongresssession=6446&theme=unfccc · Subsidiary Body for Implementation (SBI), resumed 1st meeting [part 2] http://unfccc4.meta-fusion.com/kongresse/sb38/templ/play.php?id_kongresssession=6465&theme=unfccc · Subsidiary Body for Implementation (SBI),resumed 1st meeting [part 3]: http://unfccc4.meta-fusion.com/kongresse/sb38/templ/play.php?id_kongresssession=6466&theme=unfccc The film 'The Climate game and the world's poor' by IIED offers a good insight into the CC negotiations. It is focussed on the Copenhagen debacle but gives a good feel for the process (inequities). It's on youtube. The attached file is an article that serves your purpose. It discusses the logic of appropriateness/consequences in forest negotiations. It argues norms and appropriateness explain major outcomes in global forest politics. It is inside look at 'boring' conferences of 'hollow' institutions that are deliberately designed not to deliver policy. [Dimitrov 2005 Hostage to Norms] Not sure this is what you are looking for the The Island President shows a lot of tedium and frustration associated with Kyoto Protocol climate negotiations. "Exciting" or Informative Videos UNFCCC youtube channel http://www.youtube.com/climateconference Bali breakthrough: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q25REI4FCRQ UNFCC archives http://unfccc.int/meetings/poznan_dec_2008/items/4684.php * Official feeds - http://www.youtube.com/user/RamsarConvention - http://www.youtube.com/user/IPHCStaff * Videos from NGOs - http://www.youtube.com/user/TunaSustainability - http://www.youtube.com/user/eloevents - http://www.youtube.com/user/GreenpeaceVideo * Archives - http://www.iisd.ca/ On Tue, Feb 11, 2014 at 6:10 PM, DG Webster <[email protected]>wrote: > Hello all, > > I've been thinking about ways to make my class tomorrow on the logic of > consequences vs. the logic of appropriateness more real to my students and > came up with the idea of showing a short video that demonstrates the tedium > that occurs between breakthroughs at environmental negotiations. > Unfortunately, I'm not finding anything on the web--or more accurately, I'm > finding many options but none that actually fit the bill. If any of you > have recommendations for videos or other activities that show the > procedural side of global environmental governance I'd greatly appreciate > your suggestions. As usual, please send to me off list and I will compile. > > Thanks much, > dgwebster > > -- > D.G. Webster > Assistant Professor > Environmental Studies Program > Dartmouth College > 6182 Steele Hall > Hanover, NH 03755 > phone: 603-646-0213 > http://www.dartmouth.edu/~envs/faculty/webster.html > -- D.G. Webster Assistant Professor Environmental Studies Program Dartmouth College 6182 Steele Hall Hanover, NH 03755 phone: 603-646-0213 http://www.dartmouth.edu/~envs/faculty/webster.html -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "gep-ed" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
