TY - JOUR
T1 - Making influence visible
T2 - Innovating ethnography at the paris climate summit
AU - Suiseeya, Kimberly R.Marion
AU - Zanotti, Laura
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Laura Zanotti is an associate professor of anthropology at Purdue University and is the associate director of the Center for the Environment. Zanotti is an environmental anthropologist who conducts research with Indigenous Peoples and Local Communities to determine strategies for just futures. Her work has resulted in more than fifteen published articles, an edited volume with Routledge, and several book chapters. Her book, Radical Territories in the Brazilian Amazon: The Kayapo’s Fight for Just Livelihoods, was published in 2016. Zanotti’s research has been funded by the National Science Foundation, the Mellon Foundation, and Purdue University.
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* The authors are grateful to the Indigenous Peoples delegates and delegates from Local Commu-nities who shared their time, reflections, and knowledge with our team at COP21. We are also grateful to three anonymous reviewers, participants in the “Call for Methodological Diversity” workshop series, Hannah Hughes, Alice Vadrot, Sheryl Lightfoot, and Shana Starobin for their helpful feedback on earlier drafts. Thanks also to Kate Yeater and Michelle David for research assistance. We would like to recognize the Native Peoples upon whose land our universities are built as well as the histories of dispossession that have allowed for the growth of these institu-tions. This research was supported by Purdue Climate Change Research Center (no. 1810), the departments of Anthropology and Political Science at Purdue University, Purdue University’s College of Liberal Arts, the Center for the Environment at Purdue University, and the R. Barry Fellowship Program in the Department of Political Science at Northwestern University. CEE relies on collaboration, in coordinating fieldwork, collecting and analyzing data, and thinking through meaning, and this article reflects the efforts of the larger team working on-site in Paris. The Paris-COP21 CEE team comprises project leaders Kimberly R. Marion Suiseeya and Laura Zanotti and researchers Scott Benzing, Sarah Huang, Fernando Tormos, Suraya Williams, and Elizabeth Wulbrecht.
Funding Information:
The authors are grateful to the Indigenous Peoples delegates and delegates from Local Communities who shared their time, reflections, and knowledge with our team at COP21. We are also grateful to three anonymous reviewers, participants in the ?Call for Methodological Diversity? workshop series, Hannah Hughes, Alice Vadrot, Sheryl Lightfoot, and Shana Starobin for their helpful feedback on earlier drafts. Thanks also to Kate Yeater and Michelle David for research assistance. We would like to recognize the Native Peoples upon whose land our universities are built as well as the histories of dispossession that have allowed for the growth of these institutions. This research was supported by Purdue Climate Change Research Center (no. 1810), the departments of Anthropology and Political Science at Purdue University, Purdue University?s College of Liberal Arts, the Center for the Environment at Purdue University, and the R. Barry Fellowship Program in the Department of Political Science at Northwestern University. CEE relies on collaboration, in coordinating fieldwork, collecting and analyzing data, and thinking through meaning, and this article reflects the efforts of the larger team working on-site in Paris. The Paris-COP21 CEE team comprises project leaders Kimberly R. Marion Suiseeya and Laura Zanotti and researchers Scott Benzing, Sarah Huang, Fernando Tormos, Suraya Williams, and Elizabeth Wulbrecht.
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© 2019 by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
PY - 2019/1/1
Y1 - 2019/1/1
N2 - Although Indigenous Peoples make significant contributions to global environmental governance and were prominent actors at the 2015 Paris Climate Summit, COP21, they remain largely invisible in conventional, mainstream, and academic accounts of COP21. In this article, we adopt feminist collaborative event ethnography to draw attention to often marginalized and unrecognized actors and help make visible processes that are often invisible in the study of power and influence at sites of global environmental governance. Specifically, we integrate current approaches to power from international relations and political ecology scholarship to investigate how Indigenous Peoples, critical actors for solving global environmental challenges, access, navigate, and cultivate power at COP21 to shape global environmental governance. Through conceptual and methodological innovations that illuminate how Indigenous Peoples overcome structural and spatial barriers to engagement, this article demonstrates how attention to the politics of representation through pluralistic approaches to power can help expand the repertoire of possibilities for advancing global environmental governance.
AB - Although Indigenous Peoples make significant contributions to global environmental governance and were prominent actors at the 2015 Paris Climate Summit, COP21, they remain largely invisible in conventional, mainstream, and academic accounts of COP21. In this article, we adopt feminist collaborative event ethnography to draw attention to often marginalized and unrecognized actors and help make visible processes that are often invisible in the study of power and influence at sites of global environmental governance. Specifically, we integrate current approaches to power from international relations and political ecology scholarship to investigate how Indigenous Peoples, critical actors for solving global environmental challenges, access, navigate, and cultivate power at COP21 to shape global environmental governance. Through conceptual and methodological innovations that illuminate how Indigenous Peoples overcome structural and spatial barriers to engagement, this article demonstrates how attention to the politics of representation through pluralistic approaches to power can help expand the repertoire of possibilities for advancing global environmental governance.
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U2 - 10.1162/glep_a_00507
DO - 10.1162/glep_a_00507
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85082851341
SN - 1526-3800
VL - 19
SP - 38
EP - 60
JO - Global Environmental Politics
JF - Global Environmental Politics
IS - 2
ER -
