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Mission Impossible? Promoting Global Sustainable Development in Times of National Industrial Policies

open access: yesGlobal Policy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper argues that the growing space for industrial policies, at least in its present form and shape, is unlikely to promote sustainable development in most Global South countries, especially in the smaller economies. This claim builds on those who have thought about structural transformations for and from the Global South throughout ...
Nicolás M. Perrone
wiley   +1 more source

“Green Developmentalism” and the Role of International Law in Negotiating the Energy Transition

open access: yesGlobal Policy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Policy evolutions in North American and European capitals have prompted debates about ongoing shifts in global economic governance from a primary emphasis on promoting markets to a more extensive role for the state in steering economic relations.
Lorenzo Cotula
wiley   +1 more source

Whose Lands? Which Public? Trump\u27s National Monument Proclamations and the Shape of Public-Lands Law [PDF]

open access: yes, 2018
President Trump issued a proclamation in December 2017 purporting to remove two million acres in southern Utah from national monument status, radically shrinking the Grand-Staircase Escalante National Monument and splitting the Bears Ears National ...
Purdy, Jedediah
core   +3 more sources

Contested Relations Between Resource Extraction and Alternatives to Development : The Case of Lithium Production in Bolivia [PDF]

open access: yes, 2017
Tämä Pro Gradu-tutkielma tarkastelee ekstraktivismin ja Bolivialaisen vaihtoehdon kehitykselle välistä suhdetta Bolivian Salar de Uyunissa tapahtuvan litiumtuotannon kautta.
Komi, Sanna
core  

Rights in a state of exception. The deadly colonial ethics of voluntary corporate responsibility for human rights [PDF]

open access: yes, 2018
It is widely accepted that voluntary corporate responsibility for human rights is a means of continuing “business-as-usual”. Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) has been denounced as “whitewash”, with little effect in practice.
Coleman, Lara Montesinos
core   +2 more sources

For a Caring Geography: Situated Solidarities and Feminist Care Ethics During and Beyond Crisis

open access: yesArea, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper calls for a caring geography that centres care and solidarity as interrelated, embodied practices rather than abstract concepts. Drawing on feminist ethics of care and scholarship on geographies of solidarity, I argue that care becomes politically transformative when coupled with solidarity, understood as negotiated mutuality across
Matina Kapsali
wiley   +1 more source

Unreachable, Inescapable: Sustainable Development as Normative Camouflage in EU–MERCOSUR Trade

open access: yesJCMS: Journal of Common Market Studies, EarlyView.
Abstract This article examines how sustainable development functions as a mechanism of stabilising asymmetry in North–South trade governance, using the European Union (EU)–Southern Common Market (MERCOSUR) agreement as a case study. Whilst sustainability is often framed as a normative good or institutional advance, the article shows instead how it ...
Asha Herten‐Crabb
wiley   +1 more source

The Imperial Extractivist Boomerang: The Spectre of (Un)just Transition in Spain

open access: yesState Crime
Taking a decolonial approach, this article examines how global economic centres are implementing a new wave of extractive policies in the name of the green and digital transition.
Aitor Jiménez, Laura Bedford
doaj   +1 more source

The Meritorious ‘Other’: The Interconnection of Merit and Race in EU Migration and Asylum Law

open access: yesJCMS: Journal of Common Market Studies, EarlyView.
Abstract Adopting a law‐in‐context approach, this article suggests that merit‐based migrant selection in the European Union (EU) is implicitly shaped by racial dynamics. With a focus on EU law and more specifically on cases from the Netherlands and Germany, it argues that the growing emphasis on merit enables a limited number of ‘racialised others’ to ...
Sarah Ganty   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

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