Dear colleagues, Apologies for the self-promotion, but in advance of the Paris COP, where protest (or its absence in the new security context) is likely to be a discussion point, you may be interested in this article of mine just published in Global Governance.
Disrupting Global Governance: Protest at Environmental Conferences from 1972 to 2012 Disruptive protest by nonstate actors often accompanies global governance conferences, but little analysis has been devoted to disaggregating its diverse forms. This article identifies four types of disruptive protest- symbolic, procedural, coercive, and evasive-and illustrates them with examples from UN environmental conferences in Stockholm (1972), Rio de Janeiro (1992), Johannesburg (2002), and Rio de Janeiro (2012). Symbolic disruption in Stockholm contributed to the production of new discourses; procedural disruption in Rio in 1992 introduced new actors and texts; some protestors sought to directly and coercively disrupt the summit in Johannesburg; and protests in Rio in 2012 illustrate disruption through evasion and exit. Understanding the form and power of such disruptive protests is crucial for studies of global governance. Carl Death (2015) Disrupting Global Governance: Protest at Environmental Conferences from 1972 to 2012. Global Governance: A Review of Multilateralism and International Organizations: October-December 2015, Vol. 21, No. 4, pp. 579-598. http://journals.rienner.com/doi/abs/10.5555/1075-2846-21.4.579 Regards, Carl -- Dr Carl Death, Senior Lecturer in International Political Economy; Programme Director BSocSc Politics and International Relations University of Manchester Room 4.011, Politics, School of Social Sciences, Arthur Lewis Building Oxford Road, Manchester, M13 9PL, UK Phone: +44 (0)161 27 54890 Email: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> Twitter: @drcdeath Webpage: http://www.manchester.ac.uk/research/carl.death/ -- 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/d/optout.
