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Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research), Feb 1, 2023

espanolEn las ultimas decadas, la proliferacion de un “tercer sector” conformado por organizacion... more espanolEn las ultimas decadas, la proliferacion de un “tercer sector” conformado por organizaciones no gubernamentales y sin fines de lucro que trascienden las fronteras ha propiciado una reformulacion del concepto de sociedad civil. Una serie de estudios contemporaneos sostienen que la sociedad civil estado-centrica se esta volviendo internacional, transnacional o global. Si la aparicion de una esfera autonoma de ciudadanos universales no es mas que la proyeccion de un ideal cosmopolita o un fenomeno real es una fuente de controversias. El presente ensayo problematiza la idea de una sociedad civil global a traves de una valoracion de su utilidad descriptiva y sus implicaciones normativas. En base a un enfoque constructivista, el articulo propone el termino “infraestructura ideacional” para analizar sus fundamentos discursivos e interpretativos. El analisis concluye que la sociedad civil global es una reificacion que tiene sus raices en el discurso de los derechos humanos como un id...

Environmental Sociology, 2017

ABSTRACTEcuador’s Yasuni-ITT initiative put forward an unprecedented global governance mechanism ... more ABSTRACTEcuador’s Yasuni-ITT initiative put forward an unprecedented global governance mechanism promoting environmental justice. This government-sponsored proposal and its transnational campaign originated in civil society and garnered transnational activist support. However, after failing to achieve its goals, the project was terminated, thereby generating widespread contestation. The Yasuni-ITT initiative provides a sui generis case study of transnational collective action insofar as it presents an activist campaign that operated with(in) the state and culminated in the formation of an antagonistic social movement. The present study uses a dynamic approach to transnational collective action in order to trace contentious interactions involving state and non-state actors in the course of the Yasuni-ITT initiative and its subsequent termination. The analysis focuses on norm-laden framing processes in order to assess the interplay between coalition-building patterns and multilevel political opportunity str...

Ius Humani. Law Journal, 2016

En las últimas décadas, la proliferación de un “tercer sector” conformado por organizaciones no g... more En las últimas décadas, la proliferación de un “tercer sector” conformado por organizaciones no gubernamentales y sin fines de lucro que trascienden las fronteras ha propiciado una reformulación del concepto de sociedad civil. Una serie de estudios contemporáneos sostienen que la sociedad civil estado-céntrica se está volviendo internacional, transnacional o global. Si la aparición de una esfera autónoma de ciudadanos universales no es más que la proyección de un ideal cosmopolita o un fenómeno real es una fuente de controversias. El presente ensayo problematiza la idea de una sociedad civil global a través de una valoración de su utilidad descriptiva y sus implicaciones normativas. En base a un enfoque constructivista, el artículo propone el término “infraestructura ideacional” para analizar sus fundamentos discursivos e interpretativos. El análisis concluye que la sociedad civil global es una reificación que tiene sus raíces en el discurso de los derechos humanos como un ideal con...

In the wake of the 1992 Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro, 'traditional knowledge' became a ... more In the wake of the 1992 Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro, 'traditional knowledge' became a recurring theme in global environmental governance. The emergence of traditional knowledge in a governance field marked by global science begs the following question: how is it that a particular set of intellectual activities other than science came to be perceived as a form of knowledge whose attributes are valuable for governing the global environment? This paper aims to grapple with this question by tracing the emergence of the category of traditional knowledge in global environmental governance. The main argument is that traditional knowledge came to be conceived of as a cognitive resource with utilitarian and 'glocal' properties through a series of interventions on the part of public scientists and landmark environmental reports that blurred the boundaries between science and nonscience. Building upon the concept of boundary work in Science and Technology Studies, this paper...

Comentario Internacional, 2017

El artículo presenta un análisis preliminar de la migración haitiana en tránsito por Ecuador. El ... more El artículo presenta un análisis preliminar de la migración haitiana en tránsito por Ecuador. El objetivo del estudio es evaluar las distintas dimensiones del fenómeno de migración en tránsito y problematizar el concepto como una categoría de análisis. Primero, se expone el concepto de migración en tránsito poniendo de relieve los aspectos problemáticos del mismo. A continuación, se provee una descripción general de la migración haitiana, y se exploran los casos de Brasil como país de destino, y de Ecuador como país de tránsito. Finalmente, se plantean algunas interrogantes en torno a la dinámica compleja de la migración en tránsito en base al caso haitiano.

Global Environmental Politics, 2023

The creation of the Local Communities and Indigenous Peoples Platform under the United Nations Fr... more The creation of the Local Communities and Indigenous Peoples Platform under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) set out to incorporate Indigenous and local knowledge into the science–policy landscape of the climate field. The Platform is a crucial case of institutional change, as it signals an incipient shift from a science-centric toward a pluralistic approach to knowledge in global climate governance. This article traces this process of change in the politics and practices underlying the establishment and design of the Platform as an interface for Indigenous and local knowledge holders. The analysis shows that the sui generis design of the Platform was the product of bricolage (recombination) and translation (recontextualization) of disparate elements with the purpose of accommodating various political demands in an altogether new kind of knowledge–policy interface: a diverse boundary organization. The article makes an empirical contribution to the h...

The Routledge Handbook to the Political Economy and Governance of the Americas

Ecuador’s Yasuní-ITT initiative put forward an unprecedented global governance mechanism promotin... more Ecuador’s Yasuní-ITT initiative put forward an unprecedented global governance mechanism promoting environmental justice. This government-sponsored proposal and its transnational campaign originated in civil society and garnered transnational activist support. However, after failing to achieve its goals, the project was terminated, thereby generating widespread contestation. The Yasuní-ITT initiative provides a sui generis case study of transnational collective action insofar as it presents an activist campaign that operated with(in) the state and culminated in the formation of an antagonistic social movement. The present study uses a dynamic approach to transnational collective action in order to trace contentious interactions involving state and non-state actors in the course of the Yasuní-ITT initiative and its
subsequent termination. The analysis focuses on norm-laden framing processes in order to assess the interplay between coalition-building patterns and multilevel political opportunity structures. The paper sheds light on claim making patterns in transnational contention, in particular how these affect the making and unmaking of (state-led) insider outsider coalitions.

In the past few decades, the proliferation of a " third sector " of nongovernmental and non-profi... more In the past few decades, the proliferation of a " third sector " of nongovernmental and non-profit organizations that operate across borders has prompted a reformulation of the concept of civil society. A number of contemporary studies contend that the previously state-centric civil society is becoming international, transnational or global. Whether the emergence of an autonomous realm of world citizens is merely a projection of a cosmopolitan ideal or a real phenomenon is a contentious issue. The present article problematizes the idea of a global civil society by analysing its descriptive purchase and its normative implications. Drawing on a constructivist approach, the paper proposes the term " ideational infrastructure " to analyse its discursive and interpretive underpinnings. The analysis finds that global civil society is a reification rooted in human rights discourse as a contemporary ideal and a moral aspiration. Resumen: En las últimas décadas, la proliferación de un " tercer sector " conformado por organizaciones no gubernamentales y sin fines de lucro que trascienden las fronteras ha propiciado una reformulación del concepto de sociedad civil. Una serie de estudios contemporáneos sostienen que la sociedad civil estado-céntrica se está volviendo internacional, transnacional o global. Si la aparición de una esfera autónoma

Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research), Feb 1, 2023

espanolEn las ultimas decadas, la proliferacion de un “tercer sector” conformado por organizacion... more espanolEn las ultimas decadas, la proliferacion de un “tercer sector” conformado por organizaciones no gubernamentales y sin fines de lucro que trascienden las fronteras ha propiciado una reformulacion del concepto de sociedad civil. Una serie de estudios contemporaneos sostienen que la sociedad civil estado-centrica se esta volviendo internacional, transnacional o global. Si la aparicion de una esfera autonoma de ciudadanos universales no es mas que la proyeccion de un ideal cosmopolita o un fenomeno real es una fuente de controversias. El presente ensayo problematiza la idea de una sociedad civil global a traves de una valoracion de su utilidad descriptiva y sus implicaciones normativas. En base a un enfoque constructivista, el articulo propone el termino “infraestructura ideacional” para analizar sus fundamentos discursivos e interpretativos. El analisis concluye que la sociedad civil global es una reificacion que tiene sus raices en el discurso de los derechos humanos como un id...

Environmental Sociology, 2017

ABSTRACTEcuador’s Yasuni-ITT initiative put forward an unprecedented global governance mechanism ... more ABSTRACTEcuador’s Yasuni-ITT initiative put forward an unprecedented global governance mechanism promoting environmental justice. This government-sponsored proposal and its transnational campaign originated in civil society and garnered transnational activist support. However, after failing to achieve its goals, the project was terminated, thereby generating widespread contestation. The Yasuni-ITT initiative provides a sui generis case study of transnational collective action insofar as it presents an activist campaign that operated with(in) the state and culminated in the formation of an antagonistic social movement. The present study uses a dynamic approach to transnational collective action in order to trace contentious interactions involving state and non-state actors in the course of the Yasuni-ITT initiative and its subsequent termination. The analysis focuses on norm-laden framing processes in order to assess the interplay between coalition-building patterns and multilevel political opportunity str...

Ius Humani. Law Journal, 2016

En las últimas décadas, la proliferación de un “tercer sector” conformado por organizaciones no g... more En las últimas décadas, la proliferación de un “tercer sector” conformado por organizaciones no gubernamentales y sin fines de lucro que trascienden las fronteras ha propiciado una reformulación del concepto de sociedad civil. Una serie de estudios contemporáneos sostienen que la sociedad civil estado-céntrica se está volviendo internacional, transnacional o global. Si la aparición de una esfera autónoma de ciudadanos universales no es más que la proyección de un ideal cosmopolita o un fenómeno real es una fuente de controversias. El presente ensayo problematiza la idea de una sociedad civil global a través de una valoración de su utilidad descriptiva y sus implicaciones normativas. En base a un enfoque constructivista, el artículo propone el término “infraestructura ideacional” para analizar sus fundamentos discursivos e interpretativos. El análisis concluye que la sociedad civil global es una reificación que tiene sus raíces en el discurso de los derechos humanos como un ideal con...

In the wake of the 1992 Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro, 'traditional knowledge' became a ... more In the wake of the 1992 Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro, 'traditional knowledge' became a recurring theme in global environmental governance. The emergence of traditional knowledge in a governance field marked by global science begs the following question: how is it that a particular set of intellectual activities other than science came to be perceived as a form of knowledge whose attributes are valuable for governing the global environment? This paper aims to grapple with this question by tracing the emergence of the category of traditional knowledge in global environmental governance. The main argument is that traditional knowledge came to be conceived of as a cognitive resource with utilitarian and 'glocal' properties through a series of interventions on the part of public scientists and landmark environmental reports that blurred the boundaries between science and nonscience. Building upon the concept of boundary work in Science and Technology Studies, this paper...

Comentario Internacional, 2017

El artículo presenta un análisis preliminar de la migración haitiana en tránsito por Ecuador. El ... more El artículo presenta un análisis preliminar de la migración haitiana en tránsito por Ecuador. El objetivo del estudio es evaluar las distintas dimensiones del fenómeno de migración en tránsito y problematizar el concepto como una categoría de análisis. Primero, se expone el concepto de migración en tránsito poniendo de relieve los aspectos problemáticos del mismo. A continuación, se provee una descripción general de la migración haitiana, y se exploran los casos de Brasil como país de destino, y de Ecuador como país de tránsito. Finalmente, se plantean algunas interrogantes en torno a la dinámica compleja de la migración en tránsito en base al caso haitiano.

Global Environmental Politics, 2023

The creation of the Local Communities and Indigenous Peoples Platform under the United Nations Fr... more The creation of the Local Communities and Indigenous Peoples Platform under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) set out to incorporate Indigenous and local knowledge into the science–policy landscape of the climate field. The Platform is a crucial case of institutional change, as it signals an incipient shift from a science-centric toward a pluralistic approach to knowledge in global climate governance. This article traces this process of change in the politics and practices underlying the establishment and design of the Platform as an interface for Indigenous and local knowledge holders. The analysis shows that the sui generis design of the Platform was the product of bricolage (recombination) and translation (recontextualization) of disparate elements with the purpose of accommodating various political demands in an altogether new kind of knowledge–policy interface: a diverse boundary organization. The article makes an empirical contribution to the h...

The Routledge Handbook to the Political Economy and Governance of the Americas

Ecuador’s Yasuní-ITT initiative put forward an unprecedented global governance mechanism promotin... more Ecuador’s Yasuní-ITT initiative put forward an unprecedented global governance mechanism promoting environmental justice. This government-sponsored proposal and its transnational campaign originated in civil society and garnered transnational activist support. However, after failing to achieve its goals, the project was terminated, thereby generating widespread contestation. The Yasuní-ITT initiative provides a sui generis case study of transnational collective action insofar as it presents an activist campaign that operated with(in) the state and culminated in the formation of an antagonistic social movement. The present study uses a dynamic approach to transnational collective action in order to trace contentious interactions involving state and non-state actors in the course of the Yasuní-ITT initiative and its
subsequent termination. The analysis focuses on norm-laden framing processes in order to assess the interplay between coalition-building patterns and multilevel political opportunity structures. The paper sheds light on claim making patterns in transnational contention, in particular how these affect the making and unmaking of (state-led) insider outsider coalitions.

In the past few decades, the proliferation of a " third sector " of nongovernmental and non-profi... more In the past few decades, the proliferation of a " third sector " of nongovernmental and non-profit organizations that operate across borders has prompted a reformulation of the concept of civil society. A number of contemporary studies contend that the previously state-centric civil society is becoming international, transnational or global. Whether the emergence of an autonomous realm of world citizens is merely a projection of a cosmopolitan ideal or a real phenomenon is a contentious issue. The present article problematizes the idea of a global civil society by analysing its descriptive purchase and its normative implications. Drawing on a constructivist approach, the paper proposes the term " ideational infrastructure " to analyse its discursive and interpretive underpinnings. The analysis finds that global civil society is a reification rooted in human rights discourse as a contemporary ideal and a moral aspiration. Resumen: En las últimas décadas, la proliferación de un " tercer sector " conformado por organizaciones no gubernamentales y sin fines de lucro que trascienden las fronteras ha propiciado una reformulación del concepto de sociedad civil. Una serie de estudios contemporáneos sostienen que la sociedad civil estado-céntrica se está volviendo internacional, transnacional o global. Si la aparición de una esfera autónoma