Browsing Public Resources by Author "Catherine Corson"
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Assembling Global Conservation Governance
Catherine Corson; Lisa M. Campbell; Peter Wilshusen; Noella J. Gray (Geoforum, 2019)As the configuration of global environmental governance has become more complex over the past fifty years, numerous scholars have underscored the importance of understanding the transnational networks of public, private ... -
Capturing the Personal in Politics: Ethnographies of Global Environmental Governance
Catherine Corson; Lisa M. Campbell; Kenneth I. MacDonald (Global Environmental Politics, 2014)In writing about Barack Obama’s efforts to entice Republicans into ending US Congressional gridlock, news columnist John Avalon wrote, “All politics is personal and at the end of the day, in a representative democracy, ... -
Chapter Two: Orchestrating Nature: Ethnographies of Nature Inc.
Ken MacDonald; Catherine Corson (Orchestrating Nature, 2014)In this chapter we combine the theoretical lens of virtualism with the empirical object of a new multilateral project (TEEB) and the physical site and instance of the COP10 to explore how processes of performance, ... -
Corridors of Power: Assembling US Environmental Foreign Aid
Catherine Corson (Antipode, 2018)Using the US Agency for International Development’s environmental program in Madagascar as a lens, I offer a historically grounded, relational, and multi-sited methodology for understanding the transnational processes that ... -
Doing Strong Collaborative Fieldwork In Human Geography
Noella J. Gray; Catherine Corson; Lisa M. Campbell; Peter R. Wilshusen; Rebecca L. Gruby; Shannon Hagerman (Geographical Review, 2019)Although increasingly common in the academy, collaboration is not yet the norm in human geography. Drawing on insights from ten years of experience with collaborative event ethnography (CEE), we argue that strong approaches ... -
Enclosing the Global Commons: The Convention on Biological Diversity and Green Grabbing
Catherine Corson; Kenneth Iain MacDonald (The Journal of Peasant Studies, 2012)‘Green grabs,’ or the expropriation of land or resources for environmental purposes, constitute an important component of the current global land grab explosion. We argue that international environmental institutions are ... -
Everyone's Solution? Defining and Redefining Protected Areas at the Convention on Biological Diversity
Catherine Corson; Rebecca Gruby; Rebecca Witter; Shannon Hagerman; Daniel Suarez; Shannon Greenberg; Maggie Bourque; Noella Gray; Lisa M. Campbell (Conservation and Society, 2014)For decades, conservationists have remained steadfastly committed to protected areas (PAs) as the best means to conserve biodiversity. Using Collaborative Event Ethnography of the 10th meeting of the Conference of the ... -
Grabbing “Green”: Markets, Environmental Governance and the Materialization of Natural Capital
Catherine Corson; Kenneth Iain MacDonald; Benjamin Neimark (Human Geography, 2013)Over the past two decades, the incorporation of market logics into environment and conservation policy has led to a reconceptualization of “nature.” Resulting constructs like ecosystem services and biodiversity derivatives, ... -
On the Coattails of Climate? Opportunities and Threats of a Warming Earth for Biodiversity Conservation
Shannon Hagerman; Rebecca Witter; Catherine Corson; Daniel Suarez; Edward M. Maclin; Maggie Bourque; Lisa Campbell (Global Environmental Change, 2012)The relationship between climate change and biodiversity was a central issue at the 10th Conference of the Parties (COP 10) to the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD). In this paper we draw from participant observation ... -
Seizing Center Stage: Ecosystem Service, Live, at the Convention on Biological Diversity!
Daniel Suarez; Catherine Corson (Human Geography, 2013)Over the past decade, the concept of ecosystem services has become a central guiding framework for environmental conservation. Techniques of valuation, payments to protect ecosystem services, and efforts to put a price on ... -
Studying Global Environmental Meetings to Understand Global Environmental Governance: Collaborative Event Ethnography at the Tenth Conference of the Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity
Lisa M. Campbell; Catherine Corson; Noella J. Gray; Kenneth I. MacDonald; J. Peter Brosius (Global Environmental Politics, 2014)The papers in this issue of Global Environmental Politics result from a research innovation we call collaborative event ethnography (CEE),1 applied at the 2010 Tenth Conference of the Parties (COP10) to the Convention on ... -
TEEB Begins Now': A Virtual Moment in the Production of Natural Capital
Kenneth Iain MacDonald; Catherine Corson (Development and Change, 2012)This article uses theories of virtualism to analyse the role of The Economics of Ecosystems and Biodiversity (TEEB) project in the production of natural capital. Presented at the 10th Conference of the Parties to the ... -
The Right to Resist: Disciplining Civil Society at Rio+20
Catherine Corson; Bridget Brady; Ahdi Zuber; Julianna Lord; Angela Kim (The Journal of Peasant Studies, 2015)Drawing on a collaborative ethnographic study of the United Nations (UN) Conference on Sustainable Development (Rio+20) and its preparatory meetings, we examine how the official UN ‘participatory’ process for engaging civil ...