"Degrowth: A Slogan for a New Ecological Democracy"
An interview with Serge Latouche, a proponent of the anti-utilitarian movement in environmental thought.
An interview with Serge Latouche, a proponent of the anti-utilitarian movement in environmental thought.
In this special issue on Disempowering Democracies, Melis Ece argues that Senegal’s 1996 regionalization reforms narrowed down local democracy via neoliberal processes.
In this special issue on Disempowering Democracies, Gretchen M. Walters and Melis Ece analyze the project development negotiations in a World Bank-led REDD+ capacity building regional project, involving six Central African countries between 2008 and 2011. It explores how the project created a “negotiation table” constituted of national and regional institutions recognized by the donors and governments, and how this political space, influenced by global, regional and national political agendas, led to “instances” of recognition and misrecognition among negotiating parties.
In this special issue on Disempowering Democracies, Emmanuel Sulle and Holti Banka explore the impacts of taxes imposed on tourism activities occurring on communal lands and the emerging politics of resource and revenue sharing among Wildlife Management Area (WMA) member villages in Tanzania.
In this special issue on Disempowering Democracies, Swati Sidhu, Ganesh Raghunathan, Divya Mudappa, and TR Shankar Raman discuss human-leopard coexistence in the Anamalai Hills, India. They suggest a combination of measures to mitigate negative interactions and support continued human-leopard coexistence.
In this special issue on Disempowering Democracies, Dan Brockington reviews the book Democracy in the Woods: Environmental Conservation and Social Justice in India, Tanzania, and Mexico (Studies in Comparative Energy and Environmental Politics) by Prakash Kashwan.
Clotilde Lebreton analyses the discursive, participative, and negotiation practices in the territorialized public action that occurred during the category change of the Nevado de Toluca Protected Area in Mexico from a high conservation status to a more flexible one.
Deborah Cleland and Raissa Ocaya San Jose apply Iris Marion Young’s theory of communicative democracy framework to a case study of fisheries stakeholder workshops in the Philippines.