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This episode discusses the role of African agency in climate governance, challenging stereotypes and exploring local and global negotiations.

This episode explores African agency in global climate governance, moving beyond narratives that portray African states solely as vulnerable recipients of climate policy.  Drawing on debates in International Relations, environmental politics, and African climate futures, Dr Carl Death examines how African actors negotiate, contest, and reimagine climate governance across local, continental, and global arenas.  Carl Death Carl Death is a Senior Lecturer in International Political Economy at the University of Manchester. His research focuses on environmental politics in Africa, with a particular interest in critical and postcolonial approaches.  Publications: The Green Economy in South Africa: Global Discourses and Local Politics Four Discourses of the Green Economy in the Global South Green States in Africa: Beyond the Usual Suspects Africanfuturist Socio‐Climatic Imaginaries and Nnedi Okorafor’s Wild Necropolitics Climate Fiction, Climate Theory: Decolonising Imaginations of Global Futures Unfamiliar Families and Disturbing Climate Futures Narrating Transitions to Low Carbon Futures: The Role of Long-Term Strategies in Fossil Fuel Producing Emerging Economies…

People in this episode

Host: Martin Zubko

Guest: Carl Death

Topics covered

• African agency
• climate governance
• environmental politics
• International Relations
• postcolonial approaches
• climate futures

Keywords

• climate governance
• African agency
• environmental politics
• International Relations
• climate futures
• postcolonial approaches
• Pan-Africanism

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: University of Manchester

Books & works: The Green Economy in South Africa: Global Discourses and Local Politics, Four Discourses of the Green Economy in the Global South, Green States in Africa: Beyond the Usual Suspects, Africanfuturist Socio‐Climatic Imaginaries and Nnedi Okorafor’s Wild Necropolitics, Climate Fiction, Climate Theory: Decolonising Imaginations of Global Futures, Unfamiliar Families and Disturbing Climate Futures, Narrating Transitions to Low Carbon Futures: The Role of Long-Term Strategies in Fossil Fuel Producing Emerging Economies

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