scholarly journals Why common interests and collective action are not enough for environmental cooperation – Lessons from the China-EU cooperation discourse on circular economy

2021 ◽  
Vol 71 ◽  
pp. 102389
Author(s):  
Anran Luo ◽  
Mehwish Zuberi ◽  
Jiayu Liu ◽  
Miranda Perrone ◽  
Simone Schnepf ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Collective Action ◽  
Circular Economy ◽  
Environmental Cooperation ◽  
Common Interests

scholarly journals Why common interests and collective action are not enough for environmental cooperation – Insights from China-EU circular economy discourse

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anran Luo ◽  
Mehwish Zuberi ◽  
Jiayu Liu ◽  
Miranda Perrone ◽  
Simone Schnepf ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Collective Action ◽  
Circular Economy ◽  
Environmental Governance ◽  
Participant Observation ◽  
Narrative Strategies ◽  
Environmental Cooperation ◽  
Key Stakeholders ◽  
Fruitful Cooperation ◽  
Common Interests ◽  
The Eu

Many stakeholders consider the signing of the first international agreement on circular economy ‘CE’ between China and the EU in 2018 a milestone towards global efforts to address pressing environmental problems of extraction, resource use and waste management. This analysis rebuts this expectation. Based on empirical analysis of 72 interviews with key stakeholders, 40 documents and participant observation at key international CE events, we show that optimistic win-win narratives on China-EU CE cooperation depoliticize cooperation goals, postponing deep-rooted tensions of identity, trust, negative competition and the scaling of environmental solutions. This prevents a paradigm shift towards a CE and will likely prevent fruitful cooperation on any other environmental paradigm. Traditionally, explanations for the challenges of international environmental cooperation have focused on issues of collective action and disparate interests. Our argument adds a different dimension to these explanations. It highlights the critical importance of identity, trust, negative competition and the scaling of environmental solutions. We propose more research on narrative strategies for identifying and promoting areas of trust, mutual identity building and shared conceptualizations of the scales of environmental governance.

Interest-oriented versus relationship-oriented social network sites in China

First Monday ◽  
2010 ◽  
Author(s):  
Weiyu Zhang ◽  
Rong Wang
Keyword(s):  
Social Networks ◽  
Social Network ◽  
Structural Analysis ◽  
Collective Action ◽  
Social Ties ◽  
Social Network Sites ◽  
Design Features ◽  
The Social ◽  
Different Types ◽  
Common Interests

This paper examines interest-oriented vs. relationship-oriented social network sites in China and their different implications for collective action. By utilizing a structural analysis of the design features and a survey of members of the social networks, this paper shows that the way a social network site is designed strongly suggests the formation and maintenance of different types of social ties. The social networks formed among strangers who share common interests imply different types of collective action, compared to the social networks that aim at the replication and strengthening of off-line relationships.

8. Implementation

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael E. Smith
Keyword(s):  
European Union ◽  
Foreign Policy ◽  
Collective Action ◽  
Policy Implementation ◽  
Policy Instruments ◽  
The European Union ◽  
Eu Foreign Policy ◽  
External Relations ◽  
Common Interests

This chapter examines the policy instruments used by the European Union to translate its common interests into collective action in the international arena. It first considers the problem of implementation in EU foreign policy before discussing the EU's own resources in external relations/third countries as well as the role of member states' resources in EU's external relations. It then explores the instruments of EU foreign policy, which can be grouped into diplomatic, economic, and military/civilian capabilities. It also analyses the credibility and capability gaps in the EU's policy implementation, noting that there exists a key divide between the ‘low politics’ of economic affairs and the ‘high politics’ of security/defence affairs. The chapter suggests that the EU's unique capacity for policy implementation in the area of international relations can be very erratic.

scholarly journals Convergence of Public Participation, Participatory Design and NLP to Co-Develop Circular Economy

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mark Dyer ◽  
Shaoqun Wu ◽  
Min-Hsien Weng
Keyword(s):  
Language Processing ◽  
Public Engagement ◽  
Circular Economy ◽  
Paradigm Shift ◽  
Participatory Design ◽  
Fossil Fuel ◽  
Public Attitudes ◽  
Published Data ◽  
Common Interests

AbstractThe concept of a circular economy is at a crossroads. To date, it has been largely driven by top-down national or trans-national legislation such as EU Circular Economy Package or Chinese Circular Economy Promotion. Bottom-up or grassroots engagement has been minimal and innovation has been largely restricted to use of 3R or 4R frameworks to reduce, reuse, recycle materials and products or recover waste as energy. Greater implementation of a circular economy needs a paradigm shift in public attitudes coupled with greater innovation that moves from 3R to 9R framework. Building on the insights gained from the successful transition of two Scandinavian cities of Växjö and Sønderborg to becoming fossil fuel-free economies, the article explores use of natural language processing tools to create shared narratives and stories from large format public engagement that expresses common interests, values and priorities that in turn can contribute to a participatory design of a circular economy. The article uses published data from Christchurch ‘Share an Idea’ as a case study.

Policies for the common good

2019 ◽  
pp. 149-168
Author(s):  
Paul Spicker
Keyword(s):  
Collective Action ◽  
Common Good ◽  
Social Inclusion ◽  
The Common Good ◽  
Common Interests ◽  
The Common

The common good has been represented as the sum of individual interests, the sum of shared interests, the common interests of members of a society, the benefit of a whole society, and a set of methods to achieve common aims. The concept depends on citizenship, a degree of equality and social inclusion; the key methods include measures to enhance voice, empowerment and engagement. The arguments for taking collective action to achieve the common good include moral positions, economic arguments, pragmatic approaches and the collective values considered in the previous chapter.

Ideas and Leaders in Contentious Politics: One Parish Priest in El Salvador's Popular Movement

2014 ◽  
Vol 38 (01) ◽  
pp. 76-101
Author(s):  
PETER M. SANCHEZ
Keyword(s):  
Collective Action ◽  
El Salvador ◽  
Liberation Theology ◽  
Contentious Politics ◽  
Religious Leaders ◽  
Political Movement ◽  
Parish Priest ◽  
Historical Moment ◽  
Resource Mobilisation ◽  
The Church

AbstractThis paper examines the actions of one Salvadorean priest – Padre David Rodríguez – in one parish – Tecoluca – to underscore the importance of religious leadership in the rise of El Salvador's contentious political movement that began in the early 1970s, when the guerrilla organisations were only just beginning to develop. Catholic leaders became engaged in promoting contentious politics, however, only after the Church had experienced an ideological conversion, commonly referred to as liberation theology. A focus on one priest, in one parish, allows for generalisation, since scores of priests, nuns and lay workers in El Salvador followed the same injustice frame and tactics that generated extensive political mobilisation throughout the country. While structural conditions, collective action and resource mobilisation are undoubtedly necessary, the case of religious leaders in El Salvador suggests that ideas and leadership are of vital importance for the rise of contentious politics at a particular historical moment.

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