The Politics of Beginning
The Politics of Beginning traces the formation of the Forest Stewardship Council (FSC), now the most authoritative private organization for forestry certification. It starts with recounting the highly politicized forest politics of the late 1980s, when activists protested human rights abuses and def...
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| description | The Politics of Beginning traces the formation of the Forest Stewardship Council (FSC), now the most authoritative private organization for forestry certification. It starts with recounting the highly politicized forest politics of the late 1980s, when activists protested human rights abuses and deforestation while experimenting with sustainable forestry practices. The book then follows the people who became the founding members of the Forest Stewardship Council. By using live audio recordings of the FSC founding assembly in 1993, this book provides an in-depth analysis of a constitutional moment for private authority in world politics. To explore how timber merchants, Indigenous communities, and social and environmental NGOs engaged in private institution-making, Alejandro Esguerra works with the concept of translation developed in Actor-Network Theory—a process in which knowledge about governance is continuously recontextualized—and introduces it to International Relations theory. He develops a dramaturgical methodology with metaphors of theatre such as stage, script, and performance. This methodology can be used to analyze the ways in which activists and others translate knowledge about governance and the practices of inclusion and exclusion that appear during this process. The environmental crisis requires a transformation in the ways societies value and govern human–nature relations, and The Politics of Beginning reveals the conditions under which even formerly antagonistic actors start developing a common political project. |
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| spelling | doab-20.500.12854ir-1664932025-09-12T05:08:36Z The Politics of Beginning Esguerra, Alejandro Forest Stewardship Council, FSC, Translation, Forest Governance, Private Governance, Private Authority, Constructivism, International Relations, IR, Science and Technology Studies, STS, Actor Network Theory, ANT, Global Environmental Politics: Knowledge, Forestry, Dramaturgy, Performance, Timber, Indigenous People, Power thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JP Politics and government thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JP Politics and government::JPQ Central / national / federal government::JPQB Central / national / federal government policies thema EDItEUR::R Earth Sciences, Geography, Environment, Planning::RN The environment::RND Environmental policy and protocols The Politics of Beginning traces the formation of the Forest Stewardship Council (FSC), now the most authoritative private organization for forestry certification. It starts with recounting the highly politicized forest politics of the late 1980s, when activists protested human rights abuses and deforestation while experimenting with sustainable forestry practices. The book then follows the people who became the founding members of the Forest Stewardship Council. By using live audio recordings of the FSC founding assembly in 1993, this book provides an in-depth analysis of a constitutional moment for private authority in world politics. To explore how timber merchants, Indigenous communities, and social and environmental NGOs engaged in private institution-making, Alejandro Esguerra works with the concept of translation developed in Actor-Network Theory—a process in which knowledge about governance is continuously recontextualized—and introduces it to International Relations theory. He develops a dramaturgical methodology with metaphors of theatre such as stage, script, and performance. This methodology can be used to analyze the ways in which activists and others translate knowledge about governance and the practices of inclusion and exclusion that appear during this process. The environmental crisis requires a transformation in the ways societies value and govern human–nature relations, and The Politics of Beginning reveals the conditions under which even formerly antagonistic actors start developing a common political project. 2025-09-12T05:08:35Z 2025-09-12T05:08:35Z 2025-09-10T07:15:14Z 2025 book ONIX_20250807T150817_9780472905249_2 https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/105954 9780472905249 9780472077656 9780472057658 https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/166493 eng Configurations: Critical Studies Of World Politics open access image/jpeg Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/105954/1/9780472905249.pdf University of Michigan Press University of Michigan Press 10.3998/mpub.14540336 10.3998/mpub.14540336 b7359529-e5f7-4510-a59f-d7dafa1d4d17 9780472905249 9780472077656 9780472057658 University of Michigan Press 240 open access |
| spellingShingle | Forest Stewardship Council, FSC, Translation, Forest Governance, Private Governance, Private Authority, Constructivism, International Relations, IR, Science and Technology Studies, STS, Actor Network Theory, ANT, Global Environmental Politics: Knowledge, Forestry, Dramaturgy, Performance, Timber, Indigenous People, Power thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JP Politics and government thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JP Politics and government::JPQ Central / national / federal government::JPQB Central / national / federal government policies thema EDItEUR::R Earth Sciences, Geography, Environment, Planning::RN The environment::RND Environmental policy and protocols Esguerra, Alejandro The Politics of Beginning |
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| topic | Forest Stewardship Council, FSC, Translation, Forest Governance, Private Governance, Private Authority, Constructivism, International Relations, IR, Science and Technology Studies, STS, Actor Network Theory, ANT, Global Environmental Politics: Knowledge, Forestry, Dramaturgy, Performance, Timber, Indigenous People, Power thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JP Politics and government thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JP Politics and government::JPQ Central / national / federal government::JPQB Central / national / federal government policies thema EDItEUR::R Earth Sciences, Geography, Environment, Planning::RN The environment::RND Environmental policy and protocols |
| topic_facet | Forest Stewardship Council, FSC, Translation, Forest Governance, Private Governance, Private Authority, Constructivism, International Relations, IR, Science and Technology Studies, STS, Actor Network Theory, ANT, Global Environmental Politics: Knowledge, Forestry, Dramaturgy, Performance, Timber, Indigenous People, Power thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JP Politics and government thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JP Politics and government::JPQ Central / national / federal government::JPQB Central / national / federal government policies thema EDItEUR::R Earth Sciences, Geography, Environment, Planning::RN The environment::RND Environmental policy and protocols |
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