2. "The Politics of Beginning" by @aesguerra.bsky.social explores how activists, communities, and NGOs came together to create the Forest Stewardship Council, showing how knowledge is translated into action.
eBook available #OA here!:
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We would like to kindly invite you to our Kolleg-Forum talk by Alejandro Esguerra. He will present his new book: www.fulcrum.org/concern/mono...
"The Politics of Beginning: The Origin of Private Authority in the Process of Translation", 03 December 2025, 10:30 – 12:00
@aesguerra.bsky.social
As part of the #DoingIPSSwitzerlandSymposium, join us for “Vulnerability in the Anthropocene: Bodies, Infrastructures, and Temporality” — a talk by @aesguerra.bsky.social, mod. by @mweitzel.bsky.social.
🗓 Mon, 24.11.25 | 15:30–17:00 CET
📍 Geneva Graduate Institute & ONLINE
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📣Lecture by Dr. Alejandro Esguerra: "The Politics of Beginning"
Fixing Futures is excited to bring you our next lecture given by @aesguerra.bsky.social
🕕Tue, 4 November 2025, 6:15pm
📍Seminarhaus Westend Campus, SH 4.104
🎫no registration needed
more information: fixingfutures.eu/2025/10/the-...
➡️ Methods: I outline a dramaturgical approach to world politics mobilizing metaphors of theater such as “performance,” “stage,” and “script” to study the making of private authority.
💬Happy to chat about it www.fulcrum.org/concern/mono...
➡️ Theory: I work with the concept of translation as developed in Actor-Network Theory and introduce it to the theory of International Relations. Translation sensitizes to the ways in which new actor) networks are formed, pointing to the changes in things and people taking part in the process.
➡️ Empirics: The book traces the formation of the Forest Stewardship Council (FSC), now the most authoritative private organization for forestry certification. It provides an in-depth analysis of a constitutional moment for private authority.
⁉️ Why it matters: Environmental institutions continue to fail addressing the socio-environmental crisis. We need novel imaginaries and a deeper understanding of how people come up with new forms of governing human–nature relations – “The Politics of Beginning“ engages with such a story.
🌟Officially out now: "The Politics of Beginning. The Origin of Private Authority in the Process of Translation" with @uofmpress.bsky.social OPEN ACCESS www.fulcrum.org/concern/mono...
Here comes a thread
Der WDR hat mich zu sozialen Bewegungen, Parteien und Teilhabe junger Menschen in Politik interviewt - es braucht demokratische Experimente um unterschiedliche Beteiligungsformate zu erproben!
t.co/xybylo8M7W
Muy contenta de participar el próximo martes en un conversatorio organizado por la Universidad de los Andes para conversar sobre mi capítulo en el nuevo libro "Ways of Seeing International Organisations", Negar Mansouri, @drqv.bsky.social, @cambup-polsci.cambridge.org Inscripciones:
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🚨 working paper (w. @morganlcj.bsky.social @markuswagner.bsky.social): Protesters are not judged equally - even if tactics of groups are similar.
We ran an experiment in 🇩🇪 testing how people react to farmers vs. climate activists blocking roads.
What we find is disturbing:
osf.io/preprints/os...
Here's the official version!
I gave an interview to Le Monde on the minimal compromise of COP29 in Baku, the impossible moral and political equation of climate finance, the influence of petrostates, and the essentially defensive role of multilateralism in the coming storm of right wing populism...
www.lemonde.fr/planete/arti...
Uh wow 🍾 I am very much looking forward to reading it!!!