Leonardo Figueroa Helland at Thu Nov 3, 2022 11:42am
Many thanks for your paper/outline, Angelica. This paper puts you in a good direction for your writing a you move into the next paper. You center well the decolonization of knowledge as a key analytical angle. You foreground how epistemologies of mastery underpin dominant framings and false solutions. Deconstructing the hegemony and patriarchy of development and and moving towards decolonial and feminist movement oriented paradigm change puts you in a good direction. The outline you provide maps out well the need to engage matters by decentering and unsettling Eurocentric concepts, and recentering Indigenous, anti imperial and Global South knowledges. The paper draws well from discusions across disciplines including in deconstructing Eurocentric notions of the Anthropocene. You outline some interesting non-Western concepts and critiques, as well as directions for paradigm change and alternative futures. As you move forward, consider the following points: - Elaborate in more detail the dimension of Earth system governance and climate governance and policies. More detail on specific climate focused policy mechanisms (e.g., nature based solutions, climate smart agriculture, bioenergy). Outline how your analysis bears upon a focused critique of power structures and relations in governance systems, institutions, players, framings and frameworks and specific policy instruments. Use examples of the latter as focus cases. - Elaborate further on subaltern, intersectional and radical CJ critiques of the governance and policy mechanisms. - Elaborate on aspects concerning the power relations and structures as they bear upon knowledge production and science, and the politics of the science-policy interface. This should link to my previous two recommendations. - Foreground discussions concerning the politics of knowledge and power, the dominant versus subaltern epistemologies and the contestations, e.g., around the science-policy interface vis a vis the subaltern and frontline knowledges. - Include more situated examples or cases from history and the present as microcosms that embody and shape complex dynamics of power, resistance, persistence and transformation, and the making and un making of dominant versus subaltern worlds of social, political and ecological ordering. - It would help to draw on more specific analyses of the actors, frameworks, institutions, cases, modes of implementation and political economy of climate policies like carbon pricing, markets and offsetting. Keep up the good work.