Embedding Post-Capitalist Alternatives: The Global Network of Alternative Knowledge Production

Carroll, William K.; Sapinski, Jean Philippe

doi:10.5195/jwsr.2013.508

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“…Their basic characteristics are summarized in Table 1. These initial organizations were selected on the basis of the researchers' knowledge of the field to construct a purposive sample, as previously done in other studies (e.g., Carroll 2017;Carroll & Sapinski 2013;Sapinski 2016). From these initial nodes, we gathered board interlock data on the network they are embedded in using a snowball sampling strategy (Hanneman and Riddle 2011).…”

Section: Mapping the Québec Green Growth Policy-planning Networkmentioning

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Decarbonization, hegemonic projects, and the green growth policy-planning network: the case of Québec

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Sapinski,

Laurin-Lamothe

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Since 2010, grassroots-led socio-ecological movements in Québec, Canada played a key role in overturning carbon extractivist proposals. Building on their successes, these groups now aim to move energy transition debates toward a broader conception of transition that includes radical social justice and post-capitalist alternatives. Meanwhile, corporate actors and the state enlisted major ENGOs and union federations into various technocentric “green growth” projects. These hegemonic and counter-hegemonic struggles define how transition unfolds in the province, yet few have studied how actual social actors organize to carry out these divergent responses to the climate crisis. We develop a structural analysis of the green growth policy-planning network in Québec. Starting from five organizations at the core of transition debates, we analyze the network of board interlocks they are embedded in. We describe the overall structure of the network and its main corporate, civil society, and individual actors. Analysis outlines the possibility of a new power bloc forming, positioned around the green growth project and the cleantech sector, close to achieving dominance in Quebec, that would threaten deeper decarbonization efforts. Thus, despite the recent ban on petroleum extraction, like elsewhere, energy transition in Quebec still faces deep social and ecological contradictions.

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confidence: 99%

Decarbonization, hegemonic projects, and the green growth policy-planning network: the case of Québec

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Sapinski,

Laurin-Lamothe

et al. 2023

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Modes of Cognitive Praxis in Transnational Alternative Policy Groups

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Transnational Alternative Policy Groups in Global Civil Society: Enablers of Post-Capitalist Alternatives or Carriers of NGOization?

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Sapinski

2015

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Since the 1970s, transnational alternative policy groups (TAPGs) have generated visions and strategies pointing to alternatives to capitalist globalization. However, TAPGs are also embedded in networks of intergovernmental organizations (IGOs) and foundations, and may thus be subject to NGOization. This paper examines two bodies of data relevant to this issue: (1) network data that highlight TAPGs' links to major sources of funds as well as key IGOs; (2) reflections of TAPG protagonists gleaned from in-depth interviews conducted at these groups. While our network analysis is consistent with the NGOization narrative, and while our participants offered many narratives of their own in line with it, they also provided more nuanced accounts that begin to specify the contingencies mediating between, on the one hand, resort to formal organization and to working with IGOs and foundations, and on the other hand, descent into hegemonic incorporation. In a neoliberal political-economic environment, the future of counter-hegemonic politics hinges partly on our identifying how 'preventative measures' can be brought to bear on processes of NGOization.

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Embedding Post-Capitalist Alternatives: The Global Network of Alternative Knowledge Production

Abstract: Since the 1970s, transnational alternative policy groups (TAPGs)

Cited by 5 publications

References 22 publications

Decarbonization, hegemonic projects, and the green growth policy-planning network: the case of Québec

Decarbonization, hegemonic projects, and the green growth policy-planning network: the case of Québec

Modes of Cognitive Praxis in Transnational Alternative Policy Groups

Transnational Alternative Policy Groups in Global Civil Society: Enablers of Post-Capitalist Alternatives or Carriers of NGOization?

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