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- Convenor:
-
Karen Buckley
(University of Manchester)
- Stream:
- A: Actors in addressing inequality
- Location:
- E5
- Start time:
- 29 June, 2018 at
Time zone: Europe/London
- Session slots:
- 1
Short Abstract:
This panel critically engages with the global governance of inequalities, capturing global level action and contestation on the environment, climate change and trade. It considers issues of legitimacy, justice and sustainability in relation to global governance and brings together a focus on the structures of international law, the United Nations Framework Agreement on Climate Change (UNFCCC), and World Trade Organization (WTO).
Long Abstract:
This panel considers the global governance of inequalities through international organisations such as the United Nations (UN) and World Trade Organization (WTO), non-governmental organisations (NGOs) such as Greenpeace East Asia and Greenpeace India, and social and climate justice movements at the Marrakech conference of the parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC). Papers examine the contested positioning of non-governmental organisations and social and climate justice movements in relation to the structures and agreements of international law—as they are shaped by emerging powers such as China and India and United Nations climate change negotiations. They consider the nature of the continued legitimacy of NGOs and social movements and their contributions to the construction of generative sites of global politics. A further contribution examines the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) integration of trade and ‘sustainable development’ through a focus on the World Trade Organization (WTO) current development round of negotiations.
Accepted papers:
Session 1Paper short abstract:
The paper explores climate contestation at the twenty-second conference of the parties (COP22) to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change as indicative of sustained engagement with further generative sites and modalities of global politics.
Paper long abstract:
The twenty-second conference of the parties (COP22) to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change was held over a two week period in Marrakech, Morocco, in November 2016. This paper considers climate contestation at COP22 through observations from three main sites; the Green and Blue Zones held at the main conference space in Bab Ighli and the 'Espace Autogéré' (autonomous space) held at the University of Cadi Ayyad's Faculty of Science and Technology. While previous research has found the massive expansion in civil society participation at some COPs to be accompanied by its disenfranchisement (Fisher 2010; Wahlstrom et al 2013), others have suggested the deepening of social and climate justice movements through translocal actions (Chatterton et al 2013; Featherstone 2013). The former turns on its head what many perceive as a degenerative feature of climate contestation—that forms of solidarity and antagonism are primarily oppositional—rather than co-emergent and co-productive (Featherstone 2008, 2012; Featherstone and Korf 2012). The paper explores climate contestation in Marrakech at the time of COP22 as part of broad involved processes—or 'roads through COPs'—that stretch beyond individual sites of contestation and are indicative of sustained engagement with further formal and informal generative sites and modalities of global politics.
Paper short abstract:
The paper will focus on the role of World Trade Organisation and current 'development round' of negotiations in creating the conditions for sustainable development. In particular, developmental effects of agricultural trade liberalisation will be analysed.
Paper long abstract:
The aim of the paper is to analyse the contribution of trade policy to sustainable development. According to the UNCTAD, "Trade remains the most reliable and productive way of integrating into the global economy and of supporting the efforts of poorer countries to become less aid dependent." (UNCTAD). The paper will mainly focus on the role of World Trade Organisation and current 'development round' of negotiations in creating the conditions for sustainable development. In particular, developmental effects of agricultural trade liberalisation will be analysed.
Paper short abstract:
Are Afri-capitalism and Ubuntu Business viable alternative routes to African development? How do these business models enhance, contradict, undermine, or complicate the pan-African project? How do they engage with neoliberal Africa Rising and Pan Africanist worldviews, Using a thesis formulated as, “Pan Africa Rising”, the paper responds by revealing how the two business models are presenting the aspirations of new African political economies that unfold Third Way Africanist economic worldviews to direct more authentic and meaningful growth prospects for Africans.
Paper long abstract:
How do Afri-capitalism and Ubuntu Business enhance, contradict, undermine, or complicate the pan-African project? How do Afri-capitalism and Ubuntu Business engage with neoliberal Africa Rising and Pan Africanist worldviews, and are Afri-capitalism and Ubuntu Business models viable alternative routes to African development? To this end, using a thesis formulated as, “Pan Africa Rising”, the paper reveals how Afri-capitalism and Ubuntu business models are presenting the aspirations of new African political economies that unfold viable Third Way Pan Africanist economic worldviews to direct more authentic and meaningful growth prospects for Africans. Significantly, with this concluding chapter, we demonstrate how it is that both Afri-capitalism and Ubuntu Business models encounter limitations to Africa Rising narratives—their policy failures, their notional Western-gaze rhetoric, and their reinforcement of African global economic dependency and marginalization. By revealing how it is that as new Pan Africanists Afri-capitalism and Ubuntu business models push back against Africa-Rising type externalist, neoliberal constructions of African international political economy, the chapter proposes the alternative theorization of African international political economy—“Pan Africa Rising”. Pan Africa Rising therefore underscores the significance of Afri-capitalism and Ubuntu Business’ models as culturally driven responses to the global political economy that infuses African identities and self-determined economic imaginaries and aspirations into global development discourses.