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    Las paradojas del progresismo ecuatoriano: Una mirada crítica a su legado en lo social, económico y ecológico
    Rodríguez, D ; Herrera, S ; Molina, C ; Torres Davila, VH (Consejo Latinoamericano de Ciencias Sociales, CLACSO, 2020)
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    What is in the 'People's Interest'?" Discourses of Egalitarianism and 'Development as Compensation' in Contemporary Ecuador
    Fitz-Henry, E ; Rodriguez, D ; Gold, M ; Zagato, A (Berghahn Books, 2020)
    The left-wing Pink Tide movement that swept across Latin America seems now to be overturned, as a new wave of free-market thinkers emerge across the continent. This book analyses the emergence of corporate power within Latin America and the response of egalitarian movements across the continent trying to break open the constraints of the state. Through an ethnographically grounded and localized anthropological perspective, this book argues that at a time when the regular structures of political participation have been ruptured, the Latin American context reveals multiple expressions of egalitarian movements that strive (and sometimes momentarily manage) to break through the state’s apparatus.
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    Green democracy
    Eckersley, R ; Morin, J-F ; Orsini, A (Taylor & Francis, 2020-09-01)
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    Green Theory
    Eckersley, R ; Dunne, T ; Kurki, M ; Smith, S (Oxford University Press, 2021)
    This chapter explores the ways in which environmental concerns have influenced International Relations (IR) theory. It provides a brief introduction to the ecological crisis and the emergence of green theorizing in the social sciences and humanities in general, and then tracks the status and impact of environmental issues and green thinking in IR theory. It shows how mainstream IR theories, such as neorealism and neoliberalism have constructed environmental problems merely as a ‘new issue area’ that can be approached through pre-existing theoretical frameworks. These approaches are contrasted with critical green IR theories, which challenges the state-centric framework, rationalist analysis, and ecological blindness of orthodox IR theories and offer a range of new environmental interpretations of international justice, democracy, development, modernization, and security. In the case study, climate change is explored to highlight the diversity of theoretical approaches, including the distinctiveness of green approaches, in understanding global environmental change.
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    Great Expectations: The United States and the Global Environment
    Eckersley, R ; Falkner, R ; Buzan, B (Oxford University Press, 2022-01-10)
    This chapter conceptually disentangles the relationship between environmental leadership and special environmental responsibilities that attach to the US as a great power and uses this framework to assess the US’s environmental diplomacy from the 1970s to 2020. It shows that the US has never fully accepted special environmental responsibilities because they cede economic advantages to rising powers and clash with the US-sponsored liberal economic order. The chapter also challenges the conventional narrative that US environmental leadership has been in general decline since the Nixon administration’s diplomacy at Stockholm Conference on the Human Environment in 1972. It identifies the conditions that are most conducive to US environmental leadership and shows that the high point of environmental leadership was the US’s ozone diplomacy under the Reagan administration, followed by the Obama administration’s climate diplomacy, while the Biden administration’s climate diplomacy may give rise to another high point.
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    Safeguards for the Future
    Findlay, T ; International Atomic Energy Agency, (T.M.C. Asser Press, 2022)
    Safeguards have evolved as a result of new circumstances, institutions, technologies and practices, including cultural phenomena. This chapter examines safeguards from a historical perspective as the product of a political process that resulted in the negotiation of safeguards instruments. In particular, the chapter addresses the IAEA safeguards from the perspective that adaptation of the legal framework for safeguards is necessary and often difficult. Major change will only occur through a political process, not a legal one, involving Member States of the IAEA. The change will be facilitated through the IAEA Secretariat’s role in strengthening safeguards implementation using the power and responsibilities afforded to it; the advancement of technology and techniques as a vital element of this process; and the non-technological aspects of safeguards, particularly the human element.
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    The Care Crisis: a research priority for the pandemic era and beyond
    Huppatz, K ; Craig, JL ; Matthewman, S (Edward Elgar Publishing, 2022-08-28)
    With contributions from leading experts in the fields of anthropology, communications, disaster studies, economics, epidemiology, Indigenous studies, philosophy and sociology, this expansive book offers a diverse range of social science ...
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    How Employed Mothers in Australia Find Time for Both Market Work and Childcare
    Craig, L ; Goulart, P ; Ramos, R ; Ferrittu, G (Springer International Publishing, 2022)
    This book aims to examine how labour institutions, both in developed and developing countries, have responded to the challenges faced over the last 30 years.
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    Rituals, Reassurance, and Compliance: Government Communication in Australia during the COVID-19 Pandemic
    Young, S ; Maarek, PJ (Springer International Publishing, 2022)
    Australia was ranked as one of the top 10 countries in responding to Covid-19 (Lowy Institute, 2021; Time, 2021). Before vaccines were widely available, the main tools applied were border closures, hotel quarantine, lockdowns, contact tracing and financial subsidies. Despite often harsh impositions on daily life, public opinion surveys revealed that trust in government soared, sometimes to levels rarely seen in polling. Key methods of government communication – including state premiers’ press conferences and health department tweets - provided moments of ritual and reassurance that helped secure consent for strict public health measures. The state premiers’ ability to control the news agenda in an era of streaming television, online news and working from home, was unprecedented and overturned many of the usual conventions of Australian politics.
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    How Environmentally Sustainable Is the Internationalisation of Higher Education? A View from Australia
    Baer, HA ; Bjørkdahl, K ; Franco Duharte, AS (Springer Nature Singapore, 2022-01-01)
    Abstract In a world of increasing awareness of the many drivers of anthropogenic climate change, all of which fall under the larger rubric of global capitalism with its emphasis on profit-making, economic growth, and a strong dependence on fossil fuels, many universities, particularly in developed societies, have proclaimed a staunch commitment to the notion of environmental sustainability. Conversely, the growing emphasis on internationalisation of higher education, particularly in Australia, entails a considerable amount of air travel on the part of university staff, particularly academics but also support staff, and overseas students and occasionally domestic students. Australia is a generally highly affluent country which is situated in the driest inhabited continent and increasingly finds itself functioning as a “canary the coal mine” with respect to the ravages of anthropogenic climate change. Ironically, climate scientists and other observers often refer to various regions, such as the Arctic, low-lying islands, the Andes, and Bangladesh, inhabited by indigenous and peasant peoples as the canaries in the coalmines when it comes to the adverse impacts of anthropogenic climate change. It is often said that those people who have contributed the least to greenhouse gas emissions are the ones suffering the most from climate change, a more than accurate observation.