TY - JOUR
T1 - Global environmental agreement-making
T2 - Upping the methodological and ethical stakes of studying negotiations
AU - Hughes, Hannah
AU - Vadrot, Alice
AU - Allan, Jen Iris
AU - Bach, Tracy
AU - Bansard, Jennifer S.
AU - Chasek, Pamela
AU - Gray, Noella
AU - Langlet, Arne
AU - Leiter, Timo
AU - Marion Suiseeya, Kimberly R.
AU - Martin, Beth
AU - Paterson, Matthew
AU - Ruiz-Rodríguez, Silvia Carolina
AU - Wysocki, Ina Tessnow von
AU - Tolis, Valeria
AU - Thew, Harriet
AU - Gonçalves, Marcela Vecchione
AU - Yamineva, Yulia
N1 - Funding Information:
This work was supported by the European Research Council ( ERC ) under the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation program (grant 804599) led by Alice Vadrot. The collective piece draws on discussion among the authors during three events: firstly, the workshop "Conducting Research at Global Environmental Negotiations" organized by Hannah Hughes and Alice Vadrot with the financial support of the ERC project MARIPOLDATA, ( https://www.maripoldata.eu ), which took place in Vienna on September 10–11, 2019. Secondly, the Innovative Panel II of the 2020 Earth System Governance Conference entitled “How do practitioners view our work? A transdisciplinary debate about the relevance of (studying) intergovernmental negotiation sites” organized by Alice Vadrot. Thirdly, a virtual workshop on “Conducting Research on Global Environmental-Agreement Making” from 3-5 th August, 2021. The authors give special thanks to Emmanuelle Brogat for her support during the event's organization process.
Publisher Copyright:
© 2021
PY - 2021/12
Y1 - 2021/12
N2 - This perspective identifies how recent advances contribute to re-evaluating and re-constructing global environmental negotiations as a research object by calling into question who constitutes an actor and what constitutes a site of agreement formation. Building on this scholarship, we offer the term agreement-making to facilitate further methodological and ethical reflection. The term agreement-making broadens the conceptualisation of the actors, sites and processes constitutive of global environmental agreements and brings to the fore how these are shaped by, reflect and have the potential to re-make or transform the intertwined global order of social, political and economic relations. Agreement-making situates research within these processes, and we suggest that enhancing the methodological diversity and practical utility is a potential avenue for challenging the reproduction of academic dominance. We highlight how COVID-19 requires further adapting research practices and offers an opportunity to question whether we need to be physically present to provide critical insight, analysis and support.
AB - This perspective identifies how recent advances contribute to re-evaluating and re-constructing global environmental negotiations as a research object by calling into question who constitutes an actor and what constitutes a site of agreement formation. Building on this scholarship, we offer the term agreement-making to facilitate further methodological and ethical reflection. The term agreement-making broadens the conceptualisation of the actors, sites and processes constitutive of global environmental agreements and brings to the fore how these are shaped by, reflect and have the potential to re-make or transform the intertwined global order of social, political and economic relations. Agreement-making situates research within these processes, and we suggest that enhancing the methodological diversity and practical utility is a potential avenue for challenging the reproduction of academic dominance. We highlight how COVID-19 requires further adapting research practices and offers an opportunity to question whether we need to be physically present to provide critical insight, analysis and support.
KW - Agreement-making
KW - COVID-19
KW - Ethics
KW - Ethnography
KW - Global environmental negotiations
KW - Methodology
KW - Social order
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U2 - 10.1016/j.esg.2021.100121
DO - 10.1016/j.esg.2021.100121
M3 - Comment/debate
AN - SCOPUS:85118476889
SN - 2589-8116
VL - 10
JO - Earth System Governance
JF - Earth System Governance
M1 - 100121
ER -