Practices, politics, performativities: Documents in the international negotiations on climate change

Weisser, Florian

doi:10.1016/j.polgeo.2014.02.007

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“…B. Ferguson 1994, 19 f., wo er ein langes Zitat aus Foucault's "Überwachen und Strafen: Die Geburt des Gefängnisses" (Foucault 1977) Das Problem von Ferguson und Escobar ist, dass sie die "Maschine" als hegemoniale Wissensformation empirisch überbewerten, wo sie doch brüchig und fragil ist -und eigentlich von niemandem vollständig beherrscht wird (Weisser 2014). In diesem ästhetisierenden Bild heroischen Auflehnens gegen eine allumfassende Hegemonie werden die politischen Kämpfe, die vorgeheuchelte Fügsamkeit, die Listigkeit, die Kompromisse und Eventualitäten, die in der Bewältigung und Verrichtung dieser Herrschaft auftreten, ausgeblendet (Li 1999, 295;Randeria 2006).…”

Section: Post-development: Hermeneutik Des Verdachtsunclassified

Die Ironie der Entwicklungstheorie

Korf

2018

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Dieser Beitrag entwickelt eine immanente Kritik an der Arbeit des globalen Entwicklungsapparates, die dessen grundlegende Krisenhaftigkeit analytisch im Begriff der "Ironie der Entwicklung" erfasst-als dialektische Widersprüchlichkeit zwischen Moralüberschuss (Absichten) und Scheitern (Handlungsfolgen). Diese Ironie zeigt sich in einer manipulativen Vernunft (Musto), andere auch gegen ihren Willen glücklich zu machen, die in der Form einer Gabenökonomie global institutionalisiert ist. Diese "systemische" Ironie kann unterschiedlich gelesen werden: die externe Kritik einer distanzierenden ironischen Haltung, wie sie der Dekonstruktivismus des post-development pflegt, kann darin nur die "Bösartigkeit" des Entwicklungsapparates erkennen. Eine immanente Kritik "ohne Besserwisserei" (Jaeggi) macht eine empathische ironische Haltung der Kritikerin gegenüber dem Entwicklungsapparat erforderlich und sucht eher eine produktive hermeneutische Spannung zwischen Kritik und moralischem Engagement.

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Korf

2018

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“…Materiality refers to the physical infrastructures that support and interfere with these practices, such as speaker's desks and plenaries, shielded meeting rooms, enclosures and access controls, exhibition booths, or protest signs. As has been shown for the case of multilateralism in the United Nations system more generally, practices and material arrangements are never neutral, but are entangled with politics (Bueger ; Pouliot ; Weisser ). A Rancièrian take on climate summitry provides the theoretical equipment for analysing the role of the “local milieu of diplomacy” (Shimazu :335) and its constituting practices and material arrangements for climate politics.…”

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“…While the version of 10 November contained 1622 brackets and 228 options, the number had been reduced to 48 brackets and 13 options by 10 December . An “archaeology of the document” (Weisser ) can serve to reveal the contested constitution of the international political economy of climate change in the process of working on a draft agreement. Though the UNFCCC is often praised for being transparent and inclusive, much of climate summitry unfolds in a spatially exclusive procedure.…”

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No Place for the Political: Micro‐Geographies of the Paris Climate Conference 2015

Weisser

Müller‐Mahn

2016

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Building upon post-foundational political philosophies, this article scrutinizes the Paris Climate Conference in December 2015 from a micro-geographical perspective. The analysis suggests that three different spaces exist at the site of the summit and reveals how their constituting practices and material arrangements rendered "Paris" post-democratic. We begin with exposing the staged statements of the world's political elites in the meticulously orchestrated Leaders Event as different phenotypes of the post-democratic condition. We then investigate the formal negotiations in the cordoned-off backrooms, where positions within the system were at stake, but not the system as such. Finally, we wander through the strictly policed "trade fair" and unveil attempts to entice delegates into techno-managerial solutions to the climate crisis. In the conclusion, we ponder over the prospects of environmental activism at the COPs in the light of their massive depoliticization.

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“…34 Here again, there are linkages to the practice turn. Accounts of practice often bring a textual emphasis to immersive study (Pouliot 2008;Bueger 2013b;Weisser 2014). 35 This, while we focus on documents as points of departure, their production can also be subject to ethnographic investigation, at least in the present.…”

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Hanging Out in International Politics: Two Kinds of Explanatory Political Ethnography for IR

MacKay

Levin

2015

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The use of ethnographic methods is on the rise in International Relations. However, research in this area has largely been constrained to critical or interpretive analysis of nontraditional objects of study. This has been driven in part by two practical problems that limit ethnographic analysis: that of aggregation, as international phenomena are necessarily large in scale, and that of access, as institutional settings are often closed or secretive. While we commend critical and nontraditional research for driving much‐needed expansion of the disciplinary agenda, we offer a complementary account, arguing that scholars can also use ethnographic methods in explanatory research. To do so, we draw on two methodological literatures in anthropology. The first approximates ethnographic research through historical immersion. The second applies ethnographic methods at multiple research sites, tracking transnational phenomena across them. The paper sketches prospective studies of each kind, concerning the creation and implementation of the United Nations. While neither method is entirely new to IR, the methodological literatures in question have yet to receive systematic treatment in the field.

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Practices, politics, performativities: Documents in the international negotiations on climate change

Cited by 46 publications

References 55 publications

Die Ironie der Entwicklungstheorie

Die Ironie der Entwicklungstheorie

No Place for the Political: Micro‐Geographies of the Paris Climate Conference 2015

Hanging Out in International Politics: Two Kinds of Explanatory Political Ethnography for IR

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