{"title":"Is it only about science and policy? The 'intergovernmental epistemologies' of global environmental governance.","authors":"Matteo De Donà","doi":"10.1057/s41268-022-00276-w","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1057/s41268-022-00276-w","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Although international actors operating under the United Nations umbrella put much faith in the possibility of bridging science and policy through various institutional arrangements, research in the Science and Technology Studies (STS) tradition suggests that different <i>civic epistemologies</i> revolve around environmental degradation issues. <i>Civic epistemologies</i>, which imply peculiar understandings of knowledge across cultures, are not easily bridged. This paper contends that conflicting (civic) epistemologies inevitably emerge in epistemic debates at the intergovernmental level, with strong implications for how science and knowledge are dealt with and understood in environmental negotiations. Drawing on the experience of global soil and land governance and building on the idiom of <i>civic epistemologies</i>, the concept of <i>intergovernmental epistemologies</i> is introduced as an analytical tool to capture the diverging ways of appreciating and validating knowledge in intergovernmental settings. Placing state actors and their perspectives center stage, <i>intergovernmental epistemologies</i> account for the tensions, contestations and politicisation processes of international institutional settings dealing with environmental issues. The paper concludes discussing the consequences of <i>intergovernmental epistemologies</i> for the study of global environmental governance: it cautions about overreliance on approaches based on learning and all-encompassing discourses, emphasizing the value of using STS-derived concepts to investigate the complexity of international environmental negotiations.</p>","PeriodicalId":46698,"journal":{"name":"Journal of International Relations and Development","volume":"26 1","pages":"86-110"},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9519403/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"10797328","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Perception, interest constitution, and the efficacy of socialisation: EU and US socialisation efforts with China","authors":"W. Ai, Cameron G. Thies","doi":"10.1057/s41268-022-00283-x","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1057/s41268-022-00283-x","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":46698,"journal":{"name":"Journal of International Relations and Development","volume":"26 1","pages":"131 - 158"},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2022-10-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49229121","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"London calling? The transnationalisation of elite Chinese capital and the international political economy: the case of London’s high value properties","authors":"Martin Thorley","doi":"10.1057/s41268-022-00280-0","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1057/s41268-022-00280-0","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":46698,"journal":{"name":"Journal of International Relations and Development","volume":"26 1","pages":"404 - 431"},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2022-10-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44367098","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Resilience, gender, and conflict: thinking about resilience in a multidimensional way","authors":"Ana E. Juncos, P. Bourbeau","doi":"10.1057/s41268-022-00284-w","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1057/s41268-022-00284-w","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":46698,"journal":{"name":"Journal of International Relations and Development","volume":"25 1","pages":"861 - 878"},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2022-10-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47047181","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Post-neoliberalism and capital flow management in Latin America: assessing the role of social forces","authors":"P. P. da Silva","doi":"10.1057/s41268-022-00272-0","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1057/s41268-022-00272-0","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":46698,"journal":{"name":"Journal of International Relations and Development","volume":"26 1","pages":"30 - 60"},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2022-10-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46578110","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"‘We speak over the phone almost dailyʼ: routinisation as an overlooked source of pacification in the Western Balkans","authors":"M. Kulkova","doi":"10.1057/s41268-022-00281-z","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1057/s41268-022-00281-z","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":46698,"journal":{"name":"Journal of International Relations and Development","volume":"26 1","pages":"111 - 130"},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2022-10-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41947753","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Correction to: Leveraging weakness into strength: how neo-patrimonial oil-producing countries survive economic crises","authors":"Daniel S. Leon, Charles Larratt-Smith","doi":"10.1057/s41268-022-00282-y","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1057/s41268-022-00282-y","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":46698,"journal":{"name":"Journal of International Relations and Development","volume":"25 1","pages":"1078 - 1078"},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2022-10-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49145231","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Profiling the personality of populist foreign policy makers: a leadership trait analysis","authors":"Stephan Fouquet, Klaus Brummer","doi":"10.1057/s41268-022-00270-2","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1057/s41268-022-00270-2","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":46698,"journal":{"name":"Journal of International Relations and Development","volume":"26 1","pages":"1 - 29"},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2022-09-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45785815","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Radicalising resilience: mothering, solidarity, and interdependence among women survivors of war","authors":"M. Berry","doi":"10.1057/s41268-022-00274-y","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1057/s41268-022-00274-y","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":46698,"journal":{"name":"Journal of International Relations and Development","volume":"25 1","pages":"946 - 966"},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2022-09-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48014319","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Resisting issue-linkage: social standards and Australian trade agreements","authors":"E. Postnikov, Lachlan Mckenzie","doi":"10.1057/s41268-022-00277-9","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1057/s41268-022-00277-9","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":46698,"journal":{"name":"Journal of International Relations and Development","volume":"25 1","pages":"1079 - 1100"},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2022-09-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49550413","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}