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2018 Conference

del 20 al 23 de June del 2018

Washington, DC

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Navigating Spaces between Human Rights and Justice: An Examination of the Politics of Indigenous Representation in Global Environmental Governance

sábado, el 23 de junio de 2018 a las 09:00–10:30 EDT
DMTI 215
Type of Session

Individual Paper Presentation

Abstract

The literature on global environmental governance is rich with accounts of the growth of non-state actors in environmental treaty negotiations, especially related to climate change and biodiversity, yet the primary focus has been on the engagement of large, international NGOs in these processes. There is less attention directed to the extent to which and how indigenous actors, especially from the global South, engage in global environmental governance. Increasingly indigenous actors are carving out spaces to pursue recognition and representation in a variety of global environmental policy arenas, often navigating the discursive spaces between justice and human rights to pursue their interests. Using data collected at two global events through collaborative event ethnography—the 2010 Conference of Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity and the 2014 World Parks Congress—this paper examines the strategies for representation indigenous actors deploy while navigating these complex governance events in their pursuit of justice. Specifically, I examine the politics of representation at these events and show how the growing tensions between international NGOs and indigenous representatives, as embodied in the human rights-justice debates, have led to creation of new spaces of engagement and opportunities to pursue representation and justice through recognition in global environmental governance.

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Kimberly R. Marion Suiseeya, Ph.D., Northwestern University

Presenters

Kimberly R. Marion Suiseeya, Ph.D., Northwestern University

Co-Authors

Laura Zanotti, PhD, Purdue University
Kate M Haapala, Purdue University

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