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Visibility or Impact? International Efforts to Defend LGBTQI+ Rights in Africa
(2023) Brown, Stephen
Most struggles for LGBTQI+ rights play out at the national level. However, the question of sexual and gender minorities’ rights periodically appears as a point of friction in international relations as well. This article analyses the question of international efforts to defend LGBTQI+ rights in countries of the Global South, with a particular focus on Western countries’ endeavours in Africa. Combining policy analysis, critique and recommendations, it asks how and when international actors should and should not intervene. It recognizes that motives for intervening can be problematic and the means often counterproductive, especially when exhibiting neo-imperialist tendencies and constituting ad hoc reactions to events in the media. Countering essentialist arguments about ‘authentic’ African culture and values, influenced by religious beliefs, is also a significant challenge. I argue that more fruitful efforts should instead be centred on local rights defenders’ perspectives and supporting their priorities and initiatives, based on concerted, long-term, principled strategies. International actors, however, are reluctant to adopt such approaches because of a desire for short-term visible action, even if less effective or not effective at all. This conundrum is a fundamental problem in the area of foreign aid writ large, as greater impact often requires less visibility on the part of international actors, but donor countries want domestic and international recognition of their efforts. The article distils key lessons learnt and principles for action that have emerged over the past 15 to 20 years, brought together in one place for the first time. It aims to stimulate discussions among practitioners and academics. It should be of particular interest to human rights practitioners, especially those who are involved or contemplating getting involved in defending the rights of sexual and gender minorities internationally.
COVID-19 vaccine apartheid and the failure of global cooperation
(2023) Brown, Stephen; Rosier, Morgane
The equitable distribution of COVID-19 vaccines is one of the most important tests of global cooperation that the world has faced in recent decades. Collectively, global leaders failed that crucible abysmally, creating a ‘vaccine apartheid’ that divided the world according to income into countries with widespread access and those without. Why, given that leaders were fully aware of the risks and injustice of vaccine inequity, did governments of wealthy countries hoard doses, impede the expansion of vaccine manufacturing and otherwise prevent equitable access to vaccines? We argue that their decisions to act selfishly are best explained by governments’ accountability to domestic constituencies, their lack of leadership and commitment to multilateralism and their adoption of short-term perspectives, as well as their unwillingness to curb the influence of profit-oriented global pharmaceutical companies and, to a certain extent, of an additional private actor, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.
Ecopolitics Podcast, Episode 16: Pathways to Sustainable Food Systems
(2020) Katz-Rosene, Ryan; Andrée, Peter
Achieving more sustainable food systems is a messy business because the stakes are so high for all involved. In this episode, we look at the state of food systems generally, and then critically analyze pathways towards sustainability for the food systems of Canada and Africa with our guests, Helena Shilomboleni, PhD, CGIAR Research Program on Climate Change, Agriculture, and Food Security (CCAFS) East Africa at the International Livestock Research Institute in Nairobi, Kenya, and Sarah J. Martin, Assistant Professor in the Department of Political Science at Memorial University. [Produced by Nicole Bedford; Artwork by Adam Gibbard; Transcription by Allison Brown; Additional Resources prepared by Ashley Fearnall].
Ecopolitics Podcast, Episode 15: Climate Action in and by Canada: ENGO Voices
(2020) Katz-Rosene, Ryan; Andrée, Peter
What role do ENGOs play in the Canadian ecopolitical sphere? Catherine Abreu, Executive Director of Climate Action Network Canada, and Colleen Thorpe, Executive Director of Équiterre walk us through the roles their organizations play in fighting for climate policy and shifting cultural norms in Canada. [Produced by Nicole Bedford; Artwork by Adam Gibbard; Transcription by Allison Brown; Additional Resources prepared by Ashley Fearnall].
Ecopolitics Podcast, Episode 14: Corporate Social Responsibility
(2020) Katz-Rosene, Ryan; Andrée, Peter
Greenwashing, or legitimate Corporate Social Responsibility? Dr. Hamish van der Ven (McGill) helps us understand these concepts before walking us through two case studies. [Produced by Nicole Bedford; Artwork by Adam Gibbard; Transcription by Allison Brown; Additional Resources prepared by Ashley Fearnall].
Ecopolitics Podcast, Episode 13: Corporate Sustainability in Canada
(2020) Katz-Rosene, Ryan; Andrée, Peter
In this episode we get real about corporate social responsibility, or what Rory MacAlpine of Maple Leaf Foods calls his company's "shared value" for all its stakeholders. [Produced by Nicole Bedford; Artwork by Adam Gibbard; Transcription by Allison Brown; Additional Resources prepared by Ashley Fearnall].
Ecopolitics Podcast, Episode 12: The Politics of Decarbonization
(2020) Katz-Rosene, Ryan; Andrée, Peter
Proposing a new metaphor for decarbonization, Dr. Steven Bernstein (Toronto) and Dr. Matthew Hoffmann (Toronto) discuss how we might challenge carbon lock-in from local action to global governance. [Produced by Nicole Bedford; Artwork by Adam Gibbard; Transcription by Allison Brown; Additional Resources prepared by Ashley Fearnall].
Ecopolitics Podcast, Episode 11: Environmental Political Economy
(2020) Katz-Rosene, Ryan; Andrée, Peter
What is the relationship between capitalism and the environment? In this episode Dr. Laurie Adkin, Professor of Political Science at the University of Alberta, provides some answers by guiding us on a journey through the world of 'environmental political economy'. [Produced by Nicole Bedford; Artwork by Adam Gibbard; Transcription by Allison Brown; Additional Resources prepared by Ashley Fearnall].
Ecopolitics Podcast, Episode 10: Treaty Relations and Environmental Politics in Canada
(2020) Katz-Rosene, Ryan; Andrée, Peter
Reflecting on the history and relationships that underpin two documentary films they made together, Dr. Sherry Pictou and Dr. Martha Stiegman discuss how the Mi’kmaq work to assert treaty rights over their land and fisheries in the face of colonialism and neoliberalism.[Produced by Nicole Bedford; Artwork by Adam Gibbard; Transcription by Allison Brown; Additional Resources prepared by Ashley Fearnall].
Ecopolitics Podcast, Season 2, Episode 13: Resources, Population and the Global Environment: A Case Study in Water
(2021) Katz-Rosene, Ryan; Andrée, Peter
Recorded on World Water Day, in this episode, we speak with Dr. Farhana Sultana, Associate Professor in the Department of Geography and the Environment and the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs at Syracuse University to discuss all things water. Our conversation touches on the human right to water and sanitation, the ways in which water is a cross-cutting, multisectoral entity, and how governance of water, and further, privatization, is complicated, and can often be detrimental, to ensuring our rights to water. [Produced by Nicole Bedford; Artwork by Adam Gibbard; Transcription by Allison Brown; Additional Resources prepared by Ashley Fearnall].
Ecopolitics Podcast, Season 2, Episode 14: Global Cities, Environmental Politics, and Low Carbon Transition
(2021) Katz-Rosene, Ryan; Andrée, Peter
Just over a decade ago, the world’s urban population surpassed its rural population in a trend of urbanization that is expected to continue for decades to come. This trend has raised some interesting questions with respect to how cities can participate in global sustainability efforts and how they might have a say in the governance of environmental politics. In this episode, we dive into these questions with Dr. Harriet Bulkeley, Professor in the Department of Geography at Durham University and at the Copernicus Institute of Sustainable Development at Utrecht University. [Produced by Nicole Bedford; Artwork by Adam Gibbard; Transcription by Allison Brown; Additional Resources prepared by Ashley Fearnall].
Ecopolitics Podcast, Season 2, Episode 12: Metaphors for Climate Governance
(2021) Katz-Rosene, Ryan; Andrée, Peter
Proposing a new metaphor for decarbonization, Dr. Steven Bernstein (Toronto) and Dr. Matthew Hoffmann (Toronto) discuss how we might challenge carbon lock-in from local action to global governance. [Produced by Nicole Bedford; Artwork by Adam Gibbard; Transcription by Allison Brown; Additional Resources prepared by Ashley Fearnall].
Ecopolitics Podcast, Season 2, Episode 11: Growth, Degrowth, Agrowth
(2021) Katz-Rosene, Ryan; Andrée, Peter
What is the relationship between economic growth and the environment - and why is there so much debate about such a seemingly simple question? In this episode we hear Dr. Susan Paulson (Univeristy of Florida) and Dr. Bengi Akbulut (Concordia University) share their answers to this question, and more! [Produced by Nicole Bedford; Artwork by Adam Gibbard; Transcription by Allison Brown; Additional Resources prepared by Ashley Fearnall].
Ecopolitics Podcast, Episode 9: Ecofeminism and Queer Ecology
(2020) Katz-Rosene, Ryan; Andrée, Peter
Dr. Catriona Sandilands and Dr. Sherilyn McGregor share with us the ways in which ecofeminism, and queer ecology, serve to diversify and deepen how we look at the policies and day-to-day practices of environmental politics. [Produced by Nicole Bedford; Artwork by Adam Gibbard; Transcription by Allison Brown; Additional Resources prepared by Ashley Fearnall].
Ecopolitics Podcast, Season 2, Episode 10: Dairy Cows, Climate Change and Settler Colonialism: Insights from Aotearoa/New Zealand
(2021) Katz-Rosene, Ryan; Andrée, Peter
Aotearoa/New Zealand's dairy sector contributes 1/4 of that country's greenhouse gas emissions. Dr John Reid (University of Canterbury), and Dr. Hugh Campbell (University of Otago), show us how Māori sustainability values are having a growing influence on the sector's response to the challenge of net-zero carbon emissions by 2050. [Produced by Nicole Bedford; Artwork by Adam Gibbard; Transcription by Allison Brown; Additional Resources prepared by Ashley Fearnall].
Ecopolitics Podcast, Season 2, Episode 8: Environmental Justice and the Anthropocene
(2021) Katz-Rosene, Ryan; Andrée, Peter
In this episode we talk about Indigenous environmental justice with Dr. Kyle Whyte (University of Michigan, and citizen of the Potawatomi Nation). Dr. Whyte explains how indigenous knowledge, identity, and kinship networks can reshape contemporary ecological politics. [Produced by Nicole Bedford; Artwork by Adam Gibbard; Transcription by Allison Brown; Additional Resources prepared by Ashley Fearnall].
Ecopolitics Podcast, Season 2, Episode 9: Indigenous Environmental Rights: The Maya of Belize
(2021) Katz-Rosene, Ryan; Andrée, Peter
In this episode Cristina Coc (Toledo Alcaldes Association/Maya Leaders Alliance) and Filiberto Penados (Julian Cho Society) draw on their experience in Belize to illustrate the crucial connections between Indigenous land rights and environmental conservation. [Produced by Nicole Bedford; Artwork by Adam Gibbard; Transcription by Allison Brown; Additional Resources prepared by Ashley Fearnall].
Ecopolitics Podcast, Season 2, Episode 7: Multilateral Agreements and Institutions in Global Ecopolitics
(2021) Katz-Rosene, Ryan; Andrée, Peter
Dr. Radoslav Dimitrov (Western University) demystifies the politics of negotiating multilateral environmental agreements (MEAs). He also explains why some MEAs are essentially "hollow" or "empty" despite appearing to onlookers as legitimate institutions. [Produced by Nicole Bedford; Artwork by Adam Gibbard; Transcription by Allison Brown; Additional Resources prepared by Ashley Fearnall].
Ecopolitics Podcast, Season 2, Episode 6: Great Power Politics and the Environment
(2021) Katz-Rosene, Ryan; Andrée, Peter
Dr. Yixian Sun (University of Bath), and Dr. Matthew Paterson (University of Manchester), explain how the world's most powerful countries - from Great Powers in the G7 to emerging powers in the BRICS - shape ecopolitical outcomes on the global stage. [Produced by Nicole Bedford; Artwork by Adam Gibbard; Transcription by Allison Brown; Additional Resources prepared by Ashley Fearnall].
Ecopolitics Podcast, Season 2, Episode 4: Eco-colonialism and Environmental Justice in the Global South
(2021) Katz-Rosene, Ryan; Andrée, Peter
In this episode, Dr. Joseph E. Mbaiwa (University of Botswana) and Dr. Chris Brown (Carleton University) help us examine the theme of eco-colonialism and global environmental justice through a case study on wildlife conservation in Botswana. [Produced by Nicole Bedford; Artwork by Adam Gibbard; Transcription by Allison Brown; Additional Resources prepared by Ashley Fearnall].

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