Naveeda Khan

In Quest of a Shared Planet (eBook, ePUB)

Negotiating Climate from the Global South

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Produktbeschreibung

Based on the author's eight years of fieldwork with the United Nations-led Conference of Parties (COP), In Quest of a Shared Planet offers an illuminating first-person ethnographic perspective on climate change negotiations. Focusing on the Paris Agreement, anthropologist Naveeda Khan introduces readers to the only existing global approach to the problem of climate change, one that took nearly thirty years to be collectively agreed upon. She shares her detailed descriptions of COP21 to COP25 and growing understanding of the intricacies of the climate negotiation process, leading her to ask why countries of the Global South invested in this slow-moving process and to explore how they have maneuvered it.

With a focus on the Bangladeshi delegation at the COPs, Khan draws out what it means to be a small, poor, and dependent country within the negotiation process. Her interviews with negotiators within country delegations uncover their pathways to the negotiating tables. Through observations of training sessions of negotiators of the Global South, Khan seeks to reveal understandings of what is or is not achievable within negotiated texts and the power of deal-making and deferrals. She profiles individuals who had committed themselves to the climate negotiation process, moving between the Secretariat, Parties, activists, and the wider UN system to bring their principles, strategies, emotions, and visions into view. She explores how the newest pillar of climate action, loss and damage, emerged historically and how developed countries attempted to control it in the process. Khan suggests that we understand the Global South's pursuit of loss and damage not only as a politics of forcing the issue of a conjoined future upon the Global North, but as a gift to the youth of the world to secure that future.

With this book Khan hopes to rekindle an older way of doing politics through the tenets of diplomacy upheld by the UN that have been overshadowed of late by the politics of confrontation. She stresses that while the tension between efforts of equity and solidarity and global economic competition, which have run through the negotiation process, might undercut the urgency to carry out climate mitigation, it needs to be addressed for meaningful and sustainable climate action.

Deeply insightful and highly readable, In Quest of a Shared Planet is a stirring call to action that highlights the key role responsive and active youth have in climate negotiations. It is an invitation not only to understand the climate negotiation process, but also to navigate it (for those planning to attend sessions themselves) and to critique it-with, the author hopes, sympathy and an eye to viable alternatives.

In Quest of a Shared Planet: Negotiating Climate from the Global South is available from the publisher on an open-access basis.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: TOME: Toward an Open Monograph Ecosystem
• Seitenzahl: 240
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. Mai 2023
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781531502799
• Artikelnr.: 67720570

Autorenporträt

Naveeda Khan is Associate Professor of Anthropology at Johns Hopkins University. She sits on the board of the JHU Center for Islamic Studies, and serves as affiliate faculty for the JHU Undergraduate Program in Environmental Science and Studies. She is the author of Muslim Becoming: Aspiration and Skepticism in Pakistan (Duke, 2012) and River Life and the Upspring of Nature (Duke, 2023) and editor of Beyond Crisis: Re-evaluating Pakistan (Routledge, 2010).

Inhaltsangabe

List of Acronyms and Abbreviations ix
Bodies under the UNFCCC xiii
Introduction: The Climate Regime 1
1 How to COP 11
2 The Voice of Bangladesh 38
3 Who Wants to Be a Negotiator? 59
4 Politics in Between-Spaces 78
5 Accounting for Change in the Paris Agreement 104
6 A Thrice-Told Tale of Negotiations 123
7 The House of Loss and Damage 154
Conclusion: The Gift of the Global South 173
Acknowledgments 181
Notes 185
Bibliography 195
Index 219