Ayşem Mert
Biographic Data
| ID | 4096928 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Ayşem Mert |
| GIVEN NAMES | Ayşem |
| FAMILY NAME | Mert |
| SIGNATURE | MERT A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Stockholm University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-5105-1540 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 14 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 47 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 13 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2008 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Ecopolitical catatonia: How political fantasies sustain inaction in global environmental politics
International environmental sustainability discourse in the wake of Covid-19: Exploring the psychic dimension of political discourse through fantasy
In accounting for the lack of political will to meaningfully tackle environmental crises at a global level, a growing number of scholars argue that we must take seriously the role emotional and unconscious attachments play in policy discourse. In this paper, we argue that the psychic dimension of international environmental sustainability discourse (IESD) remains under-explored compared to the scholarly attention given to the structural and norma…
Changing marine imaginaries during Covid-19 and the ocean science decade: A study on political fantasies
This article explores how global ocean governance discourses have been reshaped during the first half of the United Nations’ Ocean Science Decade (2021–2030), with particular attention to the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic and the negotiation of the High Seas Treaty. Drawing on Critical Fantasy Studies and the Nature Futures Framework, we analyse how political fantasies, affectively charged visions that underpin policy action, structure competin…
Hope in the Anthropocene: Agency, governance and negation
The Palgrave Handbook of Global Politics in the 22nd Century
This Handbook offers unique perspectives rethinking and remaking International Relations and opening up for alternative world-building in the Anthropocene
Changes in the practices and narratives of the United Nations High-Level Political Forum during the Covid-19 pandemic
The 2023 SDG Summit, which will take place in September during the United Nations (UN) General Assembly high-level week, aims to review the state of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and the implementation of the 2030 Agenda. As 2023 marks the mid-point to 2030, this meeting aims to respond to the impact of multiple and interlocking crises facing the world. The COVID-19 pandemic is only one of these critical crises. The pandemic meant an e…
Democratising sustainability transformations: Assessing the transformative potential of democratic practices in environmental governance
Many democracies find it difficult to act swiftly on problems such as climate change and biodiversity loss. This is reflected in long-standing debates in research and policy about whether democratic practices are capable of fostering timely, large-scale transformations towards sustainability. Drawing on an integrative review of scholarly literature from 2011 to early 2021 on sustainability transformations and the democracy-environment nexus, this…
Palgrave Handbook of Global Politics in the 22nd Century
Climate Ambition and Sustainable Development for a New Decade: A Catalytic Framework
This paper examines the Global Climate Action Agenda (GCAA) and discusses options to improve sub‐ and non‐state involvement in post‐2020 climate governance. A framework that stimulates sub‐ and non‐state action is a necessary complement to national governmental action, as the latter falls short of achieving low‐carbon and climate‐resilient development as envisaged in the Paris Agreement. Applying design principles for an ideal‐type orchestration …
The political nature of fantasy and political fantasies of nature
Within post-structuralist discourse theory, there has been an ongoing interest in fantasy and the fantasmatic logic. We propose a new way forward and suggest a focus on fantasies of ‘nature’ and what is deemed ‘natural’. Fantasies are structurally entwined with language, desire, and political ontologies. Discourses of nature hold a privileged position in this entwinement. We use the psychoanalytic concept of fantasy to explore how symbolic engage…
Political feasibility of 1.5°C societal transformations: The role of social justice
Constraining global climate change to 1.5°C is commonly understood to require urgent and deep societal transformations. Yet such transformations are not always viewed as politically feasible; finding ways to enhance the political feasibility of ambitious decarbonization trajectories is needed. This paper reviews the role of social justice as an organizing principle for politically feasible 1.5°C transformations. A social justice lens usefully foc…
The politics of possibility: Risk and security beyond probability, by Louise Amoore
In The politics of possibility: risk and security beyond probability, Louise Amoore examines the development of what might be called the imagery of high impact low probability events since 9/11 in
Hybrid governance mechanisms as political instruments: The case of sustainability partnerships
Partnerships for sustainable development as discursive practice: Shifts in discourses of environment and democracy
Political feasibility of 1.5°C societal transformations: The role of social justice
Constraining global climate change to 1.5°C is commonly understood to require urgent and deep societal transformations. Yet such transformations are not always viewed as politically feasible; finding ways to enhance the political feasibility of ambitious decarbonization trajectories is needed. This paper reviews the role of social justice as an organizing principle for politically feasible 1.5°C transformations. A social justice lens usefully foc…
Partnerships for sustainable development as discursive practice: Shifts in discourses of environment and democracy
The political nature of fantasy and political fantasies of nature
Within post-structuralist discourse theory, there has been an ongoing interest in fantasy and the fantasmatic logic. We propose a new way forward and suggest a focus on fantasies of ‘nature’ and what is deemed ‘natural’. Fantasies are structurally entwined with language, desire, and political ontologies. Discourses of nature hold a privileged position in this entwinement. We use the psychoanalytic concept of fantasy to explore how symbolic engage…
Democratising sustainability transformations: Assessing the transformative potential of democratic practices in environmental governance
Many democracies find it difficult to act swiftly on problems such as climate change and biodiversity loss. This is reflected in long-standing debates in research and policy about whether democratic practices are capable of fostering timely, large-scale transformations towards sustainability. Drawing on an integrative review of scholarly literature from 2011 to early 2021 on sustainability transformations and the democracy-environment nexus, this…
Hybrid governance mechanisms as political instruments: The case of sustainability partnerships
Changing marine imaginaries during Covid-19 and the ocean science decade: A study on political fantasies
This article explores how global ocean governance discourses have been reshaped during the first half of the United Nations’ Ocean Science Decade (2021–2030), with particular attention to the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic and the negotiation of the High Seas Treaty. Drawing on Critical Fantasy Studies and the Nature Futures Framework, we analyse how political fantasies, affectively charged visions that underpin policy action, structure competin…
Hope in the Anthropocene: Agency, governance and negation
Changes in the practices and narratives of the United Nations High-Level Political Forum during the Covid-19 pandemic
The 2023 SDG Summit, which will take place in September during the United Nations (UN) General Assembly high-level week, aims to review the state of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and the implementation of the 2030 Agenda. As 2023 marks the mid-point to 2030, this meeting aims to respond to the impact of multiple and interlocking crises facing the world. The COVID-19 pandemic is only one of these critical crises. The pandemic meant an e…
The politics of possibility: Risk and security beyond probability, by Louise Amoore
In The politics of possibility: risk and security beyond probability, Louise Amoore examines the development of what might be called the imagery of high impact low probability events since 9/11 in
Partnerships for sustainable development as discursive practice: Shifts in discourses of environment and democracy
Hybrid governance mechanisms as political instruments: The case of sustainability partnerships
The politics of possibility: Risk and security beyond probability, by Louise Amoore
In The politics of possibility: risk and security beyond probability, Louise Amoore examines the development of what might be called the imagery of high impact low probability events since 9/11 in
Political feasibility of 1.5°C societal transformations: The role of social justice
Constraining global climate change to 1.5°C is commonly understood to require urgent and deep societal transformations. Yet such transformations are not always viewed as politically feasible; finding ways to enhance the political feasibility of ambitious decarbonization trajectories is needed. This paper reviews the role of social justice as an organizing principle for politically feasible 1.5°C transformations. A social justice lens usefully foc…
Climate Ambition and Sustainable Development for a New Decade: A Catalytic Framework
This paper examines the Global Climate Action Agenda (GCAA) and discusses options to improve sub‐ and non‐state involvement in post‐2020 climate governance. A framework that stimulates sub‐ and non‐state action is a necessary complement to national governmental action, as the latter falls short of achieving low‐carbon and climate‐resilient development as envisaged in the Paris Agreement. Applying design principles for an ideal‐type orchestration …
The political nature of fantasy and political fantasies of nature
Within post-structuralist discourse theory, there has been an ongoing interest in fantasy and the fantasmatic logic. We propose a new way forward and suggest a focus on fantasies of ‘nature’ and what is deemed ‘natural’. Fantasies are structurally entwined with language, desire, and political ontologies. Discourses of nature hold a privileged position in this entwinement. We use the psychoanalytic concept of fantasy to explore how symbolic engage…
Democratising sustainability transformations: Assessing the transformative potential of democratic practices in environmental governance
Many democracies find it difficult to act swiftly on problems such as climate change and biodiversity loss. This is reflected in long-standing debates in research and policy about whether democratic practices are capable of fostering timely, large-scale transformations towards sustainability. Drawing on an integrative review of scholarly literature from 2011 to early 2021 on sustainability transformations and the democracy-environment nexus, this…
Palgrave Handbook of Global Politics in the 22nd Century
The Palgrave Handbook of Global Politics in the 22nd Century
This Handbook offers unique perspectives rethinking and remaking International Relations and opening up for alternative world-building in the Anthropocene
Changes in the practices and narratives of the United Nations High-Level Political Forum during the Covid-19 pandemic
The 2023 SDG Summit, which will take place in September during the United Nations (UN) General Assembly high-level week, aims to review the state of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and the implementation of the 2030 Agenda. As 2023 marks the mid-point to 2030, this meeting aims to respond to the impact of multiple and interlocking crises facing the world. The COVID-19 pandemic is only one of these critical crises. The pandemic meant an e…
International environmental sustainability discourse in the wake of Covid-19: Exploring the psychic dimension of political discourse through fantasy
In accounting for the lack of political will to meaningfully tackle environmental crises at a global level, a growing number of scholars argue that we must take seriously the role emotional and unconscious attachments play in policy discourse. In this paper, we argue that the psychic dimension of international environmental sustainability discourse (IESD) remains under-explored compared to the scholarly attention given to the structural and norma…
Changing marine imaginaries during Covid-19 and the ocean science decade: A study on political fantasies
This article explores how global ocean governance discourses have been reshaped during the first half of the United Nations’ Ocean Science Decade (2021–2030), with particular attention to the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic and the negotiation of the High Seas Treaty. Drawing on Critical Fantasy Studies and the Nature Futures Framework, we analyse how political fantasies, affectively charged visions that underpin policy action, structure competin…
Hope in the Anthropocene: Agency, governance and negation
Ecopolitical catatonia: How political fantasies sustain inaction in global environmental politics
Politics (11 works) · Political science (10 works) · Corporate governance (7 works) · Sociology (7 works) · Law (6 works) · Law (6 works) · Economics (5 works) · Management (4 works) · Sustainability (4 works) · Sustainability and Climate Change Governance (4 works)