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University of Technology Sydney
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Postcolonial Studies | Social and Cultural Anthropology | Anthropology | Sociology | Environmental Sociology | Social Change | International Relations | Sociology And Social Studies Of Science And Technology | Social Theory | Social And Cultural Anthropology
Climate Change Mitigation Strategies | International Aid and Development | Social ethics | International organisations | Technological and organisational innovation | Computer software and services not elsewhere classified | Social Impacts of Climate Change and Variability | Management of Greenhouse Gas Emissions from Electricity Generation |
Publisher: University of Technology, Sydney (UTS)
Date: 29-03-2018
Abstract: In 2017 the Australian Government announced a raft of measures designed to combat ‘foreign interference’ in the Australian political system. The measures propose new constraints on civil society advocacy and threaten to seriously curtail democratic rights. They form part of global trend towards the increased regulation of International Non-Government Organisations (INGOs), driven by fears of ‘foreign’ political influence. In response to the shrinking ‘civic space’, NGOs are defining new agendas. Recently in Australia and elsewhere NGO advocates have gained some traction in extending the legitimacy and scope for political advocacy. The new rhetoric of countering ‘foreign interference’ threatens NGO advocacy, but also creates new political possibilities. This article surveys the international trends and Australian contexts it analyses recent legislative proposals in Australia to combat ‘foreign interference’, and outlines the public debate. The double standard for INGOs and multinational corporations is highlighted as a key theme, and the article ends with a concluding discussion about emerging possibilities for new political obligations for corporations in Australia
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 11-2018
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Date: 2007
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 16-12-2023
DOI: 10.1002/9780470674871.WBESPM237.PUB2
Abstract: A wide range of social movements have mobilized against the recent waves of globalization. These challenges have come from two main directions. First, “alterglobal” movements have called for “alternative” globalizations, led by people's aspirations rather than by dominant corporate interests. Second, a range of “ethnocentric” movements have asserted ethnic, national, and communal identifications, rejecting globalizing forces. This entry outlines research into how social movements have contested globalization, across these positions. It outlines how anti‐globalization movements have been conceptualized, whether as mobilizing cultural, institutional, or material sources of power. It reflects on dynamics in the conflict between alterglobal and ethnocentric tendencies.
Publisher: Routledge
Date: 09-06-2020
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 06-2013
Publisher: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
Date: 2022
Publisher: Routledge
Date: 09-06-2021
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 06-2013
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Date: 2017
Publisher: Springer International Publishing
Date: 2019
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Date: 06-11-2020
Abstract: Climate change makes fossil fuels unburnable, yet global coal production has almost doubled over the last 20 years. This book explores how the world can stop mining coal - the most prolific source of greenhouse gas emissions. It documents efforts at halting coal production, focusing specifically on how c aigners are trying to stop coal mining in India, Germany, and Australia. Through in-depth comparative ethnography, it shows how local people are fighting to save their homes, livelihoods, and environments, creating new constituencies and alliances for the transition from fossil fuels. The book relates these struggles to conflicts between global climate policy and the national coal-industrial complex. With coal's meaning transformed from an important asset to a threat, and the coal industry declining, it charts reasons for continuing coal dependence, and how this can be overcome. It will provide a source of inspiration for energy transition for researchers in environment, sustainability, and politics, as well as policymakers.
Publisher: University of Technology, Sydney (UTS)
Date: 29-10-2010
Abstract: Global warming poses very directly the question of human agency. In this video ethnography of climate agency we explore dimensions of subjectivity in climate activism. Through a longitudinal study we track activist strategising as a reflexive process of creating climate agency. Activist reflection is presented as a balance between involvement and detachment, and analysed drawing on videoed interviews and on our own participation in organisations and events. Visual artefacts are deployed to deepen insights into the interview process, and into the contexts for climate action. In terms of the analysis, there are three themes. First we look at trajectories – how people come to identify with the climate movement and engage in its direct action wing. Second, we explore the hopes and fears of climate activists in the face of profound challenges. Third, we address political antidotes, and the role of direct action in precipitating large-scale systemic change. Across these themes there is much ersity and debate: what unifies is a common engagement in the broad field of direct climate action. This visual documentation helps us reflect on the conflicts and possibilities that thereby arise in contexts of climate activist praxis.
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 09-1998
DOI: 10.1177/011719689700600310
Abstract: As globalization accelerates, transnational pressures play an increasingly important role in political culture. Cultural linkages created by migration can be sustained and reproduced, allowing migrant groupings to maintain a role as movers for social change. Such linkages open up possibilities for mutual engagement or dialogue across the external-internal boundaries of national statehood. These issues are illustrated by the relatively small East Timorese refugee community living in Australia, which has forged a distinctive diasporic identity and has successfully invoked a transnational sphere of politics around issues of self-determination, human rights and multiculturalism. In tandem, many non-Timorese have questioned Australian commitment to these principles within Australia as well as in relation to East Timor. This process of transnational contestation leads to the emergence of cross-national communities of conscience, and points to the possibility of multicultural interaction beyond national borders.
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 12-1995
Publisher: University of Technology, Sydney (UTS)
Date: 19-10-2009
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 09-2010
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 13-08-2020
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 12-2009
Publisher: University of Technology, Sydney (UTS)
Date: 16-05-2016
Abstract: The 2001 invasion and subsequent occupation consolidated ethnicity as a political force in Afghanistan. Inter-ethnic elite bargaining instituted an ethnocratic oligarchy, grounded in the occupation. Against this, everyday politics in Afghanistan has centred on social clientelism, founded on kinship networks rather than ethnicity. At the same time, formal political structures, expressed in the 2004 Constitution, are grounded in Islam and nationalist statehood rather than ethnicity. In recent years sharp disjunctures have emerged between ethnic elites and would-be constituents, creating some electoral fluidity and ethnic de-alignment. The paper addresses the relationship between occupation and ethnocracy in Afghanistan. It takes an historical perspective on the present, debating contending foundations for political solidarity and identification in the country.
Publisher: Routledge India
Date: 06-11-2020
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Date: 29-03-2017
DOI: 10.1093/ACREFORE/9780190228620.013.340
Abstract: Climate change is often said to herald the anthropocene, where humans become active participants in the remaking of global geology. The corollary of the wide acceptance of a geological anthropocene is the emergence of a new form of self-aware climate agency. With awareness comes blame, invoking responsibility for action. What kind of social action arises from climate agency has become the critical question of our era. In the context of climate deterioration, the prevalence of inaction is itself an exercise of agency, creating in its path new fields of social struggle. The opening sphere of climate agency has the effect of subsuming other fields, reconfiguring established categories of human justice and ethical well-being. In this respect we can think of climate agency as having a distinctive, even revolutionary logic, which remains emergent, enveloping multiple aspects of social action. From this perspective the question of climate change and social movement participation is centrally important. To what extent is something that we can characterize as “climate agency” emerging through social movement participation? What potential has this phenomenon to develop beyond ideological confinement and delimitation to make wider and transformative claims on society? A genuine social movement, we are taught from history, is indeed a transformative force capable of remaking social and political relations. It remains unclear, but what are the emergent dynamics of climate movement participation that depart from established systemic parameters, to offer such a challenge? How are such developments reconfiguring “climate change communication,” forcing an insurgent element into the polity? Though scholarship addressing these questions on social movement participation and climate change exists, the field undoubtedly remains relatively underdeveloped. This reflects the extent to which inquiry into climate change has been dominated by scientific and economic discourses. It also reflects the difficulty that social science, and specifically political sociology, the “home” of social movement studies, has had in apprehending the scope of the challenge. Climate change can disrupt deeply sedimented assumptions about the relationship between social movements and capitalist modernity, and force a reconsideration of the role of social movements across developmentalist hierarchies. Such rethinking can be theoretically challenging, and force new approaches into view. These possibilities reflect the broader challenges to political culture posed by climate change.
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 09-07-2021
Abstract: We are living in an era of multiple crises, multiple social resistances, and multiple cosmopolitanisms. The post-Cold War context has generated a plethora of movements, but no single unifying ideology or global political program has yet materialized. The historical confrontation between capital and its alternatives, however, continues to pose new possibilities for social and systemic transformations. Critical analysis of ideological isions among today’s erse emancipatory and transformative movements is important in order to understand past and present shortcomings, and many continuing difficulties in imagining crisis-free alternative futures. Inspired by a multiplicity of responses from the Global South and the Global North, and by furthering Delanty’s critical cosmopolitanist approach, this article aims to create a new framework for interpreting ‘transformative visions’ that challenge systems of domination embedded in capitalist social relations. The framework is designed to enable the evaluative analysis of such visions, as well as the exploration of embedded ideological obstacles to dialogue and collaboration among them.
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 12-1999
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 1994
DOI: 10.1177/096977649400100105
Abstract: The politics of substate regional development and the politics of nation-states and nationalisms are brought into heightened conflict and contradiction by the pro cesses of integration in the European Union. The con tradictions, however, are opening up new political opportunities at regional levels. This article explores relationships between regionalism and nationalism in the case of Ireland, and more particularly Northern Ireland. Because of the violent national conflict, and the highly centralized nature of the state both in the United Kingdom and the Republic of Ireland, some of the tensions at the heart of the European integration are exemplified particularly sharply. We explored these mainly through in-depth interviews with leaders from both sides of industry and the various political parties in Northern Ireland, and with politicians and civil servants in Brussels. We report on the ways in which the interrelationships between regional econ omic development and the national conflict are per ceived and argued, highlighting the different strategies adopted for reconciling regionalism and nationalism.
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 11-2018
Publisher: Inderscience Publishers
Date: 2010
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 03-2006
Publisher: Routledge
Date: 25-07-2008
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 03-06-2013
DOI: 10.1111/GLOB.12022
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Date: 18-05-2022
DOI: 10.1093/ACREFORE/9780190228620.013.845
Abstract: Climate change brings profound challenges for social movements. The persistent failure to address climate challenges has driven a rapid “climatization” of politics. Spurred by the climate justice movement, social movements across a broad spectrum have become directly engaged with climate issues. Social movements are defined as groupings of people who act intentionally through an organization or via a network or even as a loose affiliation. They must have a collective identification and capacity for sustained action and participation. Their purpose often is to transform the conditions for social change as key agents in creating a “movement society” of mass political involvement. In doing so, social movements engage in a “metapolitics” of creating power and recreating society. Climate movements are increasingly being shown to have this effect. Recent research demonstrates that with climate change, there is a growing realignment in the social movement field to simultaneously address both climate concerns and social agendas. New forms of social agency are emerging under climate change, posing a new kind of climatized “movement society.” Arguably, as demonstrated by the limited efforts at developing international climate policy, mass mobilization on climate issues is a necessary element of any strategy to secure climate stability. Three broad fields of action are evident – politicising the impacts of climate change, contesting the causes, and advancing solutions. In each there is a widening field of agendas as climate concerns overwhelm existing social relations. Distinctive strategies emerge. First, there is growing collective identification among people affected by the impacts of climate change, now or anticipated, with a marked shift from climate advocacy to climate organizing, of acting “with,” not “for” those affected. Second, actions to challenge the legitimacy of the fossil fuel sector have escalated, materializing the causes of climate change in the fossil fuel cycle. With this, there is a move from abstract demands for emissions reduction to much more concrete demands for fossil fuel phase-out. Finally, in terms of solutions, there is a move from a focus on emission-reduction programs to wider policy agendas designed to transform social relations. Emissions reduction is no longer seen as a burden to be shared, but as part of wider social transformation, of benefit to all.
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 03-06-2013
DOI: 10.1111/GLOB.12026
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 10-1995
Publisher: Routledge
Date: 29-11-2006
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 2021
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 16-08-2016
Publisher: Oxford University Press (OUP)
Date: 21-07-2022
Abstract: Collaboration between public administration organizations and various stakeholders is often prescribed as a potential solution to the current complex problems of governance, such as climate change. According to the Advocacy Coalition Framework, shared beliefs are one of the most important drivers of collaboration. However, studies investigating the role of beliefs in collaboration show mixed results. Some argue that similarity of general normative and empirical policy beliefs elicits collaboration, while others focus on beliefs concerning policy instruments. Proposing a new isive beliefs hypothesis, we suggest that agreeing on those beliefs over which there is substantial disagreement in the policy subsystem is what matters for collaboration. Testing our hypotheses using policy network analysis and data on climate policy subsystems in 11 countries (Australia, Brazil, the Czech Republic, Germany, Finland, Ireland, Japan, Korea, Portugal, Sweden, and Taiwan), we find belief similarity to be a stronger predictor of collaboration when the focus is isive beliefs rather than normative and empirical policy beliefs or beliefs concerning policy instruments. This knowledge can be useful for managing collaborative governance networks because it helps to identify potential competing coalitions and to broker compromises between them.
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 06-2021
DOI: 10.1111/AJPH.12725
Abstract: Many high‐income countries are committed to effective climate policy, yet remain heavily dependent on fossil fuel extraction. The contradiction between an intensifying climate crisis and continued policy failure generates new political alignments, constituencies, and agendas. A dialectical process of socio‐ecological change opens‐up, where the climate is “socialised” and society is “climatised”. Australia is a high‐income, high‐emitting fossil fuel “superpower” with a thirty‐year stretch of failing climate policy, and offers an exceptionally vivid illustration of this dynamic. The paper explores these themes through the rhetoric of participants in Australian climate policy networks. It is based on sustained involvement the field and a series of in‐depth interviews with organisations that seek to influence Australian climate policy, across business associations, trade unions, environmental non‐governmental organisations, government agencies, and think tanks. It finds extensive strategic reflection across these organisations, with moves to more collaboration and alliance‐building to isolate the fossil fuel lobby, and efforts at creating new constituencies to advance decarbonisation “on the ground”.
Publisher: SAGE Publications Ltd
Date: 2013
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 05-2000
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 12-2016
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan UK
Date: 2014
Publisher: Routledge
Date: 11-06-2007
Publisher: Oekom Publishers GmbH
Date: 08-04-2022
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 24-07-2023
Publisher: Cambridge University Press (CUP)
Date: 02-2012
DOI: 10.1177/103530461202300107
Abstract: Climate change both reflects and transforms global development. Asymmetries of responsibility, impact and capacity reflect historical and current development hierarchies. At the same time, the imperative to reduce greenhouse gas emissions perversely empowers high-emitting newly industrialising counties. As inter-state negotiations enter a new post-Kyoto paradigm involving emissions reductions for ‘all Parties’ to the UN climate change convention, relations between industrial and industrialising countries, and more broadly between North and South, are re-orientated. This article charts these relations through two decades of United Nations climate negotiations, arguing the need to secure emissions reductions across the industrialising world opens up new possibilities for climate justice.
Publisher: SAGE Publications Ltd
Date: 2014
Publisher: Routledge
Date: 17-04-2021
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 12-2016
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 04-2010
Abstract: Casualization of teaching has become a major issue in Australian universities. In 1990 casuals delivered about a tenth of all university teaching. By 2008 between a third and a half of university teaching was being delivered by casuals. Quantitative studies have assessed the scale of casualization this qualitative study addresses the experience of casual academics. It documents a sharpening class ide among academics, which has become institutionally embedded. It reports on interviews with casual academics examining how the ide is experienced, and how it may be addressed. Academic casuals report underpayment and compromised quality they experience persistent income insecurity and they find themselves voiceless in the workplace. These experiences are interpreted as aspects of class subordination, and possibilities for addressing them are discussed.
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 09-2023
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 05-1997
DOI: 10.1177/079160359700700103
Abstract: North-South economic integration across the border in Ireland is being stimulated by wider transnational processes and European Union integration. But its meanings and extent, as elsewhere in the EU, are defined by state-centred structures and political ideologies. In Ireland, economic integration, and the lack of it, has been shaped by political Partition and the national conflict over Northern Ireland. This article discusses economic integration and politics from a Southern perspective, drawing on interviews with Dublin-based representatives of business organisations, professional associations and semi-state bodies. It mirrors earlier research in Belfast on the motivations and problems of cross-border integration, its institutional forms and future potential. Private firms, associations and other bodies have generally tried to circumvent rather than supersede North-South and national isions. But the end result of trying to keep ‘economics’ separate from ‘politics’ is a very uneven and stunted form of integration which is sorely lacking in coherence, coordination, and accountability. It is concluded that overcoming these problems requires North-South political institutions and democratic involvement.
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 17-09-2021
Publisher: Routledge
Date: 27-08-2015
Publisher: University of Technology, Sydney (UTS)
Date: 30-11-2011
Abstract: The article explores the interaction between legal and political strategy in producing social change. It centres on a long-running dispute in Australia over whether charities can have a dominant political purpose. The focus is on the strategising of the small activist charity that successfully pursued the case over a five-year period. As an 'insider' account, the article charts the in-practice process of translating activisms across legal and political fields. With a stress on contingency and agency, the account affirms a 'politics of rights' approach to legal activism. It shows how the case opened-up new grounds for political contestation, and as such offered prospects for 'non-reformist reform'. It also demonstrates how this occurred more by strategic engagement with unintended effects, than necessarily by design.
Publisher: SPIE-Intl Soc Optical Eng
Date: 2008
Publisher: Cambridge University Press (CUP)
Date: 06-2022
DOI: 10.1177/10353046221092414
Abstract: Climate change is most directly felt by people who cannot escape its impacts, including workers whose source of livelihood may put them directly at risk from high heat. Research on these impacts for Australian workers, especially the sociopolitical determinants of effective workplace heat management, remains limited. This article presents findings from a national research project that investigated these issues in collaboration with the Australia-based United Workers Union. It reports on the experiences of members exposed to high heat, explores how they address heat stress and how they relate this to climate change. The article expands understanding of the impacts of workplace heat, especially for indoor workers and those in lower paid jobs, through a focus on how workers articulate their experiences and understand and exercise their agency at work.
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