Benjamin Habib
Biographic Data
| ID | 3869823 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Benjamin Habib |
| GIVEN NAMES | Benjamin |
| FAMILY NAME | Habib |
| SIGNATURE | HABIB B |
| AFFILIATIONS | La Trobe University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-3087-4828 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 21 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 13 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2009 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
A Polanyian Perspective on the Conflict Between Neoliberal Economics and Countrymindedness in Australian Drought and Water Policy
This article evaluates the successes and failures of Australian drought and water policy reforms. By analysing the influence of the ideas central to neoliberal economics and countrymindedness on the development and implementation of the National Drought Policy and the Murray Darling Basin Plan, we illustrate that drought and water policy reforms in Australia can be explained in the context of Karl Polanyi's double movement theory. We demonstrate …
Towards an interdisciplinary agenda for teaching in the climate crisis: Reflections from the humanities and social sciences
The current anthropogenic climate crisis presents unique challenges to the higher education classroom. Pedagogy in the context of climate change must be attuned to complex and varied student experiences that can contend with feelings of anxiety, disconnection, distress and hopelessness. As educators and researchers, we collate our pedagogical approaches in the humanities and social sciences to progress ongoing discussions about climate pedagogy a…
Permaculture: A Global Community of Practice
Permaculture design seeks to create sustainable communities, and over time has established itself as a transnational community of practice. Based on original interviews with permaculture practitioners from around the world, and drawing on the three core elements of communities of practice – shared domain, communality and shared practices – as our analytical framework, this paper makes three arguments. First, the shared domain of permaculture as a…
The hidden variable: Environmental migration from North Korea
North Korea’s vulnerability to environmental shocks is an under-appreciated variable in the country’s human insecurity profile. Based on the United Nations Development Programme’s seven pillars of human security and using primary and secondary sources on weather, food and health conditions, the article argues that the intersection of environmental shocks with multiple human insecurities create an exacerbating chain effect on people’s lives in Nor…
Pedagogical Content Knowledge for Global Environmental Politics
Pedagogical design in international relations and environmental politics needs to help students become active participants in the sustainability transition. This article documents the use of a blog-based assessment activity in an international relations undergraduate course Global Environmental Politics. The activity has a multifunctional design that draws on different forms of pedagogical content knowledge to enhance student learning. These incl…
Social Convection and the Everyday Transformation of North Korea: A Review Essay
North Korea is a case study in social convection, where social change processes are bubbling up from the grassroots level to transform North Korean society by changing the relationship of individua
Leverage of the weak: Labor and environment movements in Taiwan and South Korea
Leverage of the weak: labor and environment movements in Taiwan and South Korea." Asian Studies Review, 40(2), pp. 314–315
The enforcement problem in Resolution 2094 and the United Nations Security Council sanctions regime: Sanctioning North Korea
This article deconstructs United Nations Security Council (UNSC) Resolution 2094 through the preambulatory statements, objectives, obligations, and implementation and enforcement provisions of UNSC Resolution 2094. The article proceeds in three parts. First, it reviews the academic literature on UNSC sanctions and their application in the North Korean case. Second, it deconstructs UNSC Resolution 2094 according to the common structural components…
Balance of Incentives: Why North Korea Interacts with the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change
North Korea's nuclear weapons programme and the maintenance of the Songun system
North Korea is unlikely to relinquish its nuclear programme because of its importance to the political economy of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) state and the perpetuation of the Kim regime. Two observations give rise to this conclusion: firstly, the development of North Korea's nuclear programme has been a long-term project spanning several decades. At no stage has Pyongyang shown a commitment to its dismantlement. Secondly, de…
North Korea’s parallel economies: Systemic disaggregation following the Soviet collapse
This article aims to introduce the concept of parallel economies to explain the transformation of North Korea’s command economy during the 1990s. The article summarises North Korea’s pre-1991 command economy, before identifying the collapse of the Soviet Union and the great famine (1994–1998) as causes for the splintering of the old command system into parallel economiesdthe official, military, illicit, court and entrepreneurial economies—separat…
Climate Change and Regime Perpetuation in North Korea
Climate change is a new variable that may weaken the Kim Jong-il regime by disrupting North Korea's agricultural sector, leading to greater food insecurity and erosion of the state's institutions. North Korea has limited capacity to adapt to climate hazards, which could exacerbate existing stresses and push the regime into terminal decay
North Korea's emergence as a nuclear weapons state and the end of the disarmament paradigm
Writing shortly after North Korea's inaugural nuclear test in late 2006, Jonathan Pollack observed that ‘a decision to proceed with additional testing would constitute compelling evidence that the
North Korea's nuclear weapons programme and the maintenance of the Songun system
North Korea is unlikely to relinquish its nuclear programme because of its importance to the political economy of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) state and the perpetuation of the Kim regime. Two observations give rise to this conclusion: firstly, the development of North Korea's nuclear programme has been a long-term project spanning several decades. At no stage has Pyongyang shown a commitment to its dismantlement. Secondly, de…
The enforcement problem in Resolution 2094 and the United Nations Security Council sanctions regime: Sanctioning North Korea
This article deconstructs United Nations Security Council (UNSC) Resolution 2094 through the preambulatory statements, objectives, obligations, and implementation and enforcement provisions of UNSC Resolution 2094. The article proceeds in three parts. First, it reviews the academic literature on UNSC sanctions and their application in the North Korean case. Second, it deconstructs UNSC Resolution 2094 according to the common structural components…
Climate Change and Regime Perpetuation in North Korea
Climate change is a new variable that may weaken the Kim Jong-il regime by disrupting North Korea's agricultural sector, leading to greater food insecurity and erosion of the state's institutions. North Korea has limited capacity to adapt to climate hazards, which could exacerbate existing stresses and push the regime into terminal decay
Towards an interdisciplinary agenda for teaching in the climate crisis: Reflections from the humanities and social sciences
The current anthropogenic climate crisis presents unique challenges to the higher education classroom. Pedagogy in the context of climate change must be attuned to complex and varied student experiences that can contend with feelings of anxiety, disconnection, distress and hopelessness. As educators and researchers, we collate our pedagogical approaches in the humanities and social sciences to progress ongoing discussions about climate pedagogy a…
Balance of Incentives: Why North Korea Interacts with the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change
Pedagogical Content Knowledge for Global Environmental Politics
Pedagogical design in international relations and environmental politics needs to help students become active participants in the sustainability transition. This article documents the use of a blog-based assessment activity in an international relations undergraduate course Global Environmental Politics. The activity has a multifunctional design that draws on different forms of pedagogical content knowledge to enhance student learning. These incl…
North Korea's emergence as a nuclear weapons state and the end of the disarmament paradigm
Writing shortly after North Korea's inaugural nuclear test in late 2006, Jonathan Pollack observed that ‘a decision to proceed with additional testing would constitute compelling evidence that the
Climate Change and Regime Perpetuation in North Korea
Climate change is a new variable that may weaken the Kim Jong-il regime by disrupting North Korea's agricultural sector, leading to greater food insecurity and erosion of the state's institutions. North Korea has limited capacity to adapt to climate hazards, which could exacerbate existing stresses and push the regime into terminal decay
North Korea's nuclear weapons programme and the maintenance of the Songun system
North Korea is unlikely to relinquish its nuclear programme because of its importance to the political economy of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) state and the perpetuation of the Kim regime. Two observations give rise to this conclusion: firstly, the development of North Korea's nuclear programme has been a long-term project spanning several decades. At no stage has Pyongyang shown a commitment to its dismantlement. Secondly, de…
North Korea’s parallel economies: Systemic disaggregation following the Soviet collapse
This article aims to introduce the concept of parallel economies to explain the transformation of North Korea’s command economy during the 1990s. The article summarises North Korea’s pre-1991 command economy, before identifying the collapse of the Soviet Union and the great famine (1994–1998) as causes for the splintering of the old command system into parallel economiesdthe official, military, illicit, court and entrepreneurial economies—separat…
The enforcement problem in Resolution 2094 and the United Nations Security Council sanctions regime: Sanctioning North Korea
This article deconstructs United Nations Security Council (UNSC) Resolution 2094 through the preambulatory statements, objectives, obligations, and implementation and enforcement provisions of UNSC Resolution 2094. The article proceeds in three parts. First, it reviews the academic literature on UNSC sanctions and their application in the North Korean case. Second, it deconstructs UNSC Resolution 2094 according to the common structural components…
Balance of Incentives: Why North Korea Interacts with the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change
Social Convection and the Everyday Transformation of North Korea: A Review Essay
North Korea is a case study in social convection, where social change processes are bubbling up from the grassroots level to transform North Korean society by changing the relationship of individua
Leverage of the weak: Labor and environment movements in Taiwan and South Korea
Leverage of the weak: labor and environment movements in Taiwan and South Korea." Asian Studies Review, 40(2), pp. 314–315
Pedagogical Content Knowledge for Global Environmental Politics
Pedagogical design in international relations and environmental politics needs to help students become active participants in the sustainability transition. This article documents the use of a blog-based assessment activity in an international relations undergraduate course Global Environmental Politics. The activity has a multifunctional design that draws on different forms of pedagogical content knowledge to enhance student learning. These incl…
The hidden variable: Environmental migration from North Korea
North Korea’s vulnerability to environmental shocks is an under-appreciated variable in the country’s human insecurity profile. Based on the United Nations Development Programme’s seven pillars of human security and using primary and secondary sources on weather, food and health conditions, the article argues that the intersection of environmental shocks with multiple human insecurities create an exacerbating chain effect on people’s lives in Nor…
Permaculture: A Global Community of Practice
Permaculture design seeks to create sustainable communities, and over time has established itself as a transnational community of practice. Based on original interviews with permaculture practitioners from around the world, and drawing on the three core elements of communities of practice – shared domain, communality and shared practices – as our analytical framework, this paper makes three arguments. First, the shared domain of permaculture as a…
Towards an interdisciplinary agenda for teaching in the climate crisis: Reflections from the humanities and social sciences
The current anthropogenic climate crisis presents unique challenges to the higher education classroom. Pedagogy in the context of climate change must be attuned to complex and varied student experiences that can contend with feelings of anxiety, disconnection, distress and hopelessness. As educators and researchers, we collate our pedagogical approaches in the humanities and social sciences to progress ongoing discussions about climate pedagogy a…
A Polanyian Perspective on the Conflict Between Neoliberal Economics and Countrymindedness in Australian Drought and Water Policy
This article evaluates the successes and failures of Australian drought and water policy reforms. By analysing the influence of the ideas central to neoliberal economics and countrymindedness on the development and implementation of the National Drought Policy and the Murray Darling Basin Plan, we illustrate that drought and water policy reforms in Australia can be explained in the context of Karl Polanyi's double movement theory. We demonstrate …
Political science (12 works) · Korean Peninsula Historical and Political Studies (8 works) · Economics (7 works) · Geography (6 works) · Law (5 works) · Sociology (5 works) · Politics (4 works) · Climate change (3 works) · Computer Science (3 works) · Development economics (3 works)