Studying Global Environmental Meetings to Understand Global Environmental Governance: Collaborative Event Ethnography at the Tenth Conference of the Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity

Campbell, Lisa M.; Corson, Catherine; Gray, Noella J.; MacDonald, Kenneth Iain; Brosius, J. Peter

doi:10.1162/glep_e_00236

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“…Templates were used for note taking to ensure the systematic and consistent identification of substantive and structural elements across presentations (see also Campbell et al 2014;Corson et al 2014). The templates used are included in Fig.…”

Section: In-session Observationsmentioning

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Diversity in geoscience: Participation, behaviour, and the division of scientific labour at a Canadian geoscience conference

King

MacKenzie

Tadaki

et al. 2018

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Effective policies promoting diversity in geoscience require understanding of how the values and practices of the community support the inclusion of different social groups. As sites of knowledge exchange and professional development, academic conferences are important culturing institutions that can alleviate or reproduce barriers to diversity in geoscience. This study examines diversity at a 2017 geoscience conference, the joint Canadian Geophysical Union and Canadian Society of Agricultural and Forest Meteorology annual meeting, through observation of participation, presentation content, and behaviour in conference sessions. Across 256 observed presentations, women constituted 28% of speakers, whereas women of colour made up only 5%. Participation rates differed between disciplinary sections, with the most populous sessions (Hydrology and Earth Surface) having the lowest percentage of women. Examination of presentation content reveals that the methods and scholarly contributions of both women and people of colour differed from the majority, suggesting an intellectual division of labour in geoscience. Examination of audience behaviours between presenters reveals how a "chilly climate" can be experienced by women and other marginalized demographics in conferences. We argue that there is more to be done than simply increasing numbers of women or other minorities in geoscientific spaces, and we suggest pathways to making geoscience a more inclusive and democratic pursuit.

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Section: In-session Observationsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Diversity in geoscience: Participation, behaviour, and the division of scientific labour at a Canadian geoscience conference

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MacKenzie

Tadaki

et al. 2018

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“…In analyzing the UNFCCC as an illustrative case study to unpack the logic of institutional accountability, we draw upon four years of on‐site observation at COPs and Intersessionals. While this does not rise to the level of collaborative event ethnography (Campbell, Corson, Gray, MacDonald, & Brosius, ), we undertook extensive field notes from meetings, collected documentation, and undertook more than 40 semi‐structured interviews with state and nonstate actors. To control for observer bias, we had multiple discussions between the authors of this article on how to reconcile our impressions and views taken at the venues.…”

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Institutional Accountability of Nonstate Actors in the UNFCCC: Exit, Voice, and Loyalty

Kuyper

Bäckstrand

Schroeder

2016

Review of Policy Research

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How are nonstate actors within the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) held to account? In this article, we introduce the concept of “institutional accountability” to complement the wider literature(s) on accountability in climate governance. Within institutional frameworks, actors employ rules, norms, and procedures to demand justifications from one another. In light of those justifications, actors then use “exit, voice, or loyalty” to positively or negatively sanction each other. To depict the dynamics of institutional accountability, we analyze the role of nonstate actors in the nine constituency groups of the UNFCCC. We outline the constituency structure and the population of observer organizations. We then identify examples where nonstate actors employed institutional rules in tandem with exit, voice, or loyalty to foster accountability. In making this analysis we draw upon three years of on-site participation at UNFCCC meetings, document analysis, and more than 40 semi-structured interviews with state and nonstate actors. We conclude by discussing the scope and conditions under which institutional accountability may occur in other issue areas of global governance

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“…CEE builds on multiple ethnographic approaches, including rapid ethnographic assessment, team ethnography, and institutional or organisational ethnography, in order to study international environmental meetings as sites where the politics of global biodiversity conservation are both enacted and made visible to observers (Campbell et al . ). I have participated in five CEEs at large international environmental meetings over the past ten years (see Table ).…”

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Charted waters? Tracking the production of conservation territories on the high seas

Gray¹

2018

Int Social Sci J

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Marine protected areas (MPAs), a common marine conservation tool, function as both objects of governance and as a form of territory. This article tracks the long‐term effort to produce conservation territories on the high seas, in areas beyond national jurisdiction. Drawing on data collected at five international environmental meetings, the paper demonstrates how an imaginative geography of the high seas is being simultaneously constituted by scientific and technological advances, particularly geospatial visualisations, as well as coordinated efforts to advocate for and develop a new international conservation instrument (an implementing agreement under the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea). Conventional understandings of territory constrain this effort by equating territory with the state. At the same time, the case of high seas conservation contributes to critiques of this conceptualisation of territory, by showcasing the role of multiple actors in seeing and controlling ocean space. Overall, the production of territory on the high seas both reflects and informs a shift in the “frontier mentality” of the oceans, as conservation and science frontier as well as economic frontier. Diverse responses to representations of, and policies for, the high seas point to both possibilities and limits of territorial thinking in the oceans.

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Studying Global Environmental Meetings to Understand Global Environmental Governance: Collaborative Event Ethnography at the Tenth Conference of the Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity

Cited by 131 publications

References 36 publications

Diversity in geoscience: Participation, behaviour, and the division of scientific labour at a Canadian geoscience conference

Diversity in geoscience: Participation, behaviour, and the division of scientific labour at a Canadian geoscience conference

Institutional Accountability of Nonstate Actors in the UNFCCC: Exit, Voice, and Loyalty

Charted waters? Tracking the production of conservation territories on the high seas

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