Judith Tsouvalis
Biographic Data
| ID | 939172 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Judith Tsouvalis |
| GIVEN NAMES | Judith |
| FAMILY NAME | Tsouvalis |
| SIGNATURE | TSOUVALIS J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Lancaster University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-6399-3394 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 73 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 13 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2000 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Co-design in policy development: Leveraging opportunities, addressing challenges, and proposing solutions for inclusive governance - Lessons from England
Co-design; Co-production; Participation; Policy
Co-Design in Practice: Bringing STS to Post-Brexit Agricultural Policy
Following the Brexit referendum, the United Kingdom's Department for Food, Environment and Rural Affairs (Defra) began to "co-design" a new agri-environment policy for England with stakeholders: the environmental land management (ELM) scheme. ELM is the cornerstone of the most far-reaching agricultural policy reforms undertaken in the UK since the Second World War. This article provides the first empirically grounded assessment of the ELM co-desi…
Disentangling Waterworlds: The role of 'agential cuts' and 'method assemblages' in ontological politics - an example from Loweswater, the English Lake District
This article explores the intra-active collective politics of the Loweswater Care Project (LCP), a 'new collective' of humans and nonhumans that assembled in the English Lake District in 2007 to grapple with the potentially toxic blue-green algae ( cyanobacteria) that were proliferating in Loweswater lake. The LCP was motivated by questions similar to those asked by the editors of this Special Issue on 'Water Matters' in their call for contributi…
Ideals and practicalities of policy co-design – Developing England’s post-Brexit Environmental Land Management (ELM) schemes
There are few examples of where co-design has been applied to active policy development on the scale or level of complexity of England’s post-Brexit Environmental Land Management (ELM) schemes. ELM offers a fascinating ‘laboratory’ to analyse how co-design at this scale works in practice. This paper offers the first in-depth empirical assessment of the process from the perspectives of both the policy makers and stakeholders who were involved in t…
Co‐designing the environmental land management scheme in England: The why, who and how of engaging ‘harder to reach’ stakeholders
Agriculture around the world needs to become more environmentally sustainable to limit further environmental degradation and impacts of climate change. Many governments try to achieve this through enrolling farmers in agri‐environment schemes (AES) that encourage them to undertake conservation activities. Studies show that AES can suffer from low uptake, meaning their environmental objectives remain unattained. To succeed for people and nature, p…
Socialized nature
This chapter aims to contribute to the reconceptualization of society-nature relations in geography by considering how particular, socially defined reality formations come into being and change over time and space in terms of their material and imaginary manifestations. It focuses on English royal forests and plantation forests and describes some of the multiple material, socio-cultural and symbolic relations formed in the course of their product…
The post‐politics of plant biosecurity: The British Government's response to ash dieback in 2012
This paper analyses the post‐political nature of the discourse of plant biosecurity in the context of the response to ash dieback in Britain. Ash dieback or Chalara is a tree disease usually fatal to ash trees. It is caused by a fungal pathogen from Asia and was first discovered in Britain in 2012 at a nursery in Buckinghamshire, England, where it had arrived in a consignment of infected tree saplings imported from the Netherlands. Global trade a…
Beyond Counting Climate Consensus
Several studies have been using quantified consensus within climate science as an argument to foster climate policy. Recent efforts to communicate such scientific consensus attained a high public profile but it is doubtful if they can be regarded successful. We argue that repeated efforts to shore up the scientific consensus on minimalist claims such as “humans cause global warming” are distractions from more urgent matters of knowledge, values, …
A Reply to Cook and Oreskes on Climate Science Consensus Messaging
In their replies to our paper (Pearce et al., 2017), both Cook and Oreskes agree with our central point: that deliberating and mobilizing policy responses to climate change requires thinking beyond public belief in a scientific consensus. However, they both continue to defend consensus messaging, either because of ‘the dangers of neglecting to communicate the scientific consensus’ (Cook, 2017, p. 1) or because ‘“no consensus”...remains... a contr…
Latour’s object-orientated politics for a post-political age
What, for Latour, does politics mean? Or, to be more precise, what being for Latour is political – who or what is his political subject? To try and answer these questions, this article compares two strands of thinking concerned with the nature of politics and the political: Latour's Dingpolitik or object-orientated politics and post-foundational political writings on the post-political condition. Both Latour and critics of the post-political cond…
On the political nature of cyanobacteria: Intra-active collective politics in Loweswater, the English Lake District
How can the politics of nature be envisioned for an age conscious of the complexity, contingency, and relationality of the world? What new practices are required to do justice to the recognition that the potential to act, shape, and change emerging worlds lies within complex epistemological and ontological relations? This paper describes an interdisciplinary study conducted between 2007 and 2010 in Loweswater, the English Lake District, that addr…
Deforesting the earth: From prehistory to global crisis by Michael Williams
Exploring Knowledge-Cultures: Precision Farming, Yield Mapping, and the Expert-Farmer Interface
Over recent years the concept of 'knowledge' in the singular has been increasingly challenged by ideas of differentiated, contextualized 'knowledges'. In this paper we propose the concept of 'knowledge-cultures' as a way of exploring the fluidity of diverse forms of knowledge and the rules, norms, and values that enable or constrain their production. Elaborating on Shotter's idea of knowledge-from-within, we argue that knowledge-cultures are soci…
Exploring Knowledge-Cultures: Precision Farming, Yield Mapping, and the Expert-Farmer Interface
Over recent years the concept of 'knowledge' in the singular has been increasingly challenged by ideas of differentiated, contextualized 'knowledges'. In this paper we propose the concept of 'knowledge-cultures' as a way of exploring the fluidity of diverse forms of knowledge and the rules, norms, and values that enable or constrain their production. Elaborating on Shotter's idea of knowledge-from-within, we argue that knowledge-cultures are soci…
On the political nature of cyanobacteria: Intra-active collective politics in Loweswater, the English Lake District
How can the politics of nature be envisioned for an age conscious of the complexity, contingency, and relationality of the world? What new practices are required to do justice to the recognition that the potential to act, shape, and change emerging worlds lies within complex epistemological and ontological relations? This paper describes an interdisciplinary study conducted between 2007 and 2010 in Loweswater, the English Lake District, that addr…
Latour’s object-orientated politics for a post-political age
What, for Latour, does politics mean? Or, to be more precise, what being for Latour is political – who or what is his political subject? To try and answer these questions, this article compares two strands of thinking concerned with the nature of politics and the political: Latour's Dingpolitik or object-orientated politics and post-foundational political writings on the post-political condition. Both Latour and critics of the post-political cond…
The post‐politics of plant biosecurity: The British Government's response to ash dieback in 2012
This paper analyses the post‐political nature of the discourse of plant biosecurity in the context of the response to ash dieback in Britain. Ash dieback or Chalara is a tree disease usually fatal to ash trees. It is caused by a fungal pathogen from Asia and was first discovered in Britain in 2012 at a nursery in Buckinghamshire, England, where it had arrived in a consignment of infected tree saplings imported from the Netherlands. Global trade a…
Disentangling Waterworlds: The role of 'agential cuts' and 'method assemblages' in ontological politics - an example from Loweswater, the English Lake District
This article explores the intra-active collective politics of the Loweswater Care Project (LCP), a 'new collective' of humans and nonhumans that assembled in the English Lake District in 2007 to grapple with the potentially toxic blue-green algae ( cyanobacteria) that were proliferating in Loweswater lake. The LCP was motivated by questions similar to those asked by the editors of this Special Issue on 'Water Matters' in their call for contributi…
Co-Design in Practice: Bringing STS to Post-Brexit Agricultural Policy
Following the Brexit referendum, the United Kingdom's Department for Food, Environment and Rural Affairs (Defra) began to "co-design" a new agri-environment policy for England with stakeholders: the environmental land management (ELM) scheme. ELM is the cornerstone of the most far-reaching agricultural policy reforms undertaken in the UK since the Second World War. This article provides the first empirically grounded assessment of the ELM co-desi…
Ideals and practicalities of policy co-design – Developing England’s post-Brexit Environmental Land Management (ELM) schemes
There are few examples of where co-design has been applied to active policy development on the scale or level of complexity of England’s post-Brexit Environmental Land Management (ELM) schemes. ELM offers a fascinating ‘laboratory’ to analyse how co-design at this scale works in practice. This paper offers the first in-depth empirical assessment of the process from the perspectives of both the policy makers and stakeholders who were involved in t…
Exploring Knowledge-Cultures: Precision Farming, Yield Mapping, and the Expert-Farmer Interface
Over recent years the concept of 'knowledge' in the singular has been increasingly challenged by ideas of differentiated, contextualized 'knowledges'. In this paper we propose the concept of 'knowledge-cultures' as a way of exploring the fluidity of diverse forms of knowledge and the rules, norms, and values that enable or constrain their production. Elaborating on Shotter's idea of knowledge-from-within, we argue that knowledge-cultures are soci…
Deforesting the earth: From prehistory to global crisis by Michael Williams
Latour’s object-orientated politics for a post-political age
What, for Latour, does politics mean? Or, to be more precise, what being for Latour is political – who or what is his political subject? To try and answer these questions, this article compares two strands of thinking concerned with the nature of politics and the political: Latour's Dingpolitik or object-orientated politics and post-foundational political writings on the post-political condition. Both Latour and critics of the post-political cond…
On the political nature of cyanobacteria: Intra-active collective politics in Loweswater, the English Lake District
How can the politics of nature be envisioned for an age conscious of the complexity, contingency, and relationality of the world? What new practices are required to do justice to the recognition that the potential to act, shape, and change emerging worlds lies within complex epistemological and ontological relations? This paper describes an interdisciplinary study conducted between 2007 and 2010 in Loweswater, the English Lake District, that addr…
Beyond Counting Climate Consensus
Several studies have been using quantified consensus within climate science as an argument to foster climate policy. Recent efforts to communicate such scientific consensus attained a high public profile but it is doubtful if they can be regarded successful. We argue that repeated efforts to shore up the scientific consensus on minimalist claims such as “humans cause global warming” are distractions from more urgent matters of knowledge, values, …
A Reply to Cook and Oreskes on Climate Science Consensus Messaging
In their replies to our paper (Pearce et al., 2017), both Cook and Oreskes agree with our central point: that deliberating and mobilizing policy responses to climate change requires thinking beyond public belief in a scientific consensus. However, they both continue to defend consensus messaging, either because of ‘the dangers of neglecting to communicate the scientific consensus’ (Cook, 2017, p. 1) or because ‘“no consensus”...remains... a contr…
Socialized nature
This chapter aims to contribute to the reconceptualization of society-nature relations in geography by considering how particular, socially defined reality formations come into being and change over time and space in terms of their material and imaginary manifestations. It focuses on English royal forests and plantation forests and describes some of the multiple material, socio-cultural and symbolic relations formed in the course of their product…
The post‐politics of plant biosecurity: The British Government's response to ash dieback in 2012
This paper analyses the post‐political nature of the discourse of plant biosecurity in the context of the response to ash dieback in Britain. Ash dieback or Chalara is a tree disease usually fatal to ash trees. It is caused by a fungal pathogen from Asia and was first discovered in Britain in 2012 at a nursery in Buckinghamshire, England, where it had arrived in a consignment of infected tree saplings imported from the Netherlands. Global trade a…
Co‐designing the environmental land management scheme in England: The why, who and how of engaging ‘harder to reach’ stakeholders
Agriculture around the world needs to become more environmentally sustainable to limit further environmental degradation and impacts of climate change. Many governments try to achieve this through enrolling farmers in agri‐environment schemes (AES) that encourage them to undertake conservation activities. Studies show that AES can suffer from low uptake, meaning their environmental objectives remain unattained. To succeed for people and nature, p…
Ideals and practicalities of policy co-design – Developing England’s post-Brexit Environmental Land Management (ELM) schemes
There are few examples of where co-design has been applied to active policy development on the scale or level of complexity of England’s post-Brexit Environmental Land Management (ELM) schemes. ELM offers a fascinating ‘laboratory’ to analyse how co-design at this scale works in practice. This paper offers the first in-depth empirical assessment of the process from the perspectives of both the policy makers and stakeholders who were involved in t…
Co-design in policy development: Leveraging opportunities, addressing challenges, and proposing solutions for inclusive governance - Lessons from England
Co-design; Co-production; Participation; Policy
Co-Design in Practice: Bringing STS to Post-Brexit Agricultural Policy
Following the Brexit referendum, the United Kingdom's Department for Food, Environment and Rural Affairs (Defra) began to "co-design" a new agri-environment policy for England with stakeholders: the environmental land management (ELM) scheme. ELM is the cornerstone of the most far-reaching agricultural policy reforms undertaken in the UK since the Second World War. This article provides the first empirically grounded assessment of the ELM co-desi…
Disentangling Waterworlds: The role of 'agential cuts' and 'method assemblages' in ontological politics - an example from Loweswater, the English Lake District
This article explores the intra-active collective politics of the Loweswater Care Project (LCP), a 'new collective' of humans and nonhumans that assembled in the English Lake District in 2007 to grapple with the potentially toxic blue-green algae ( cyanobacteria) that were proliferating in Loweswater lake. The LCP was motivated by questions similar to those asked by the editors of this Special Issue on 'Water Matters' in their call for contributi…
Political science (10 works) · Geography (7 works) · Business (5 works) · Law (5 works) · Public Administration (5 works) · Sociology (5 works) · Computer Science (4 works) · Economics (4 works) · Law (4 works) · Politics (4 works)