Ralph Tafon
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 209854 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Ralph Tafon |
| PRENOMES | Ralph |
| SOBRENOME | Tafon |
| ASSINATURA | TAFON R |
| AFILIAÇÕES | Södertörn University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-2264-6892 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 10 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 11 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 10 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2015 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 2 |
Green Defence in the Racial‐Colonial Anthropocene
This article argues that powerful Western militaries are central architects of the necropolitics underpinning contemporary green and digital transitions. As climate change is increasingly framed as a security threat, NATO, the United States and the European Union pursue climate‐resilient defence infrastructures whose material foundations depend on strategic minerals extracted under conditions of armed conflict, displacement, sexual violence and p…
Hydropower after empire
Hydropower has become a central pillar of energy security and low-carbon development across the global South, yet its expansion is increasingly shaped by colonial legacies, geopolitical tensions, and financing constraints. This paper examines these dynamics through a qualitative case study of the 5150-megawatt Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD) employing a multi-scalar analytical framework and drawing on colonial-era treaties, policy document…
Exploring social justice in marine spatial planning
This article contributes to the increasing traction of social justice in marine spatial planning (MSP) by exploring perceptions and experiences of social justice from the viewpoint of planners and different social groups who were included and (self)excluded in MSP processes. The study builds on empirical material from Poland, Latvia, and Germany consisting of interviews, MSP legislation, and documents that were analysed through the lens of a mult…
Ways forward in transdisciplinary research
Transdisciplinary research has been put forward as a means to foster a radical shift in traditional scientific paradigms by promoting knowledge democracy while tackling wicked problems. This paper analyses how local social-ecological dynamics and institutional realities affect the way in which transdisciplinary research generates knowledge and develops sustainability pathways in diverse marine and coastal conflict contexts. Drawing on a cross-cas…
Blue justice through and beyond equity and participation
While blue justice has gained traction, recognition and capability, which are necessary conditions for procedural and distributive justice, remain under-developed. We develop a four-dimensional blue justice framework that builds on recognition and capabilities to critically examine and advance justice in Poland’s marine spatial planning (MSP). We find that misrecognition of differential identities and capacities scripted powerless stakeholders ou…
Oceans of Conflict
Festering ocean conflict thwarts efforts to realize the Agenda 2030 Sustainable Development Goals. This paper explores transformations of ocean conflict into situated sustainability pathways that privilege human needs, justice and equity. We first outline the promise and limits of prevailing ocean/coastal governance practices, with a focus on marine spatial planning (MSP), which by framing conflict in shallow terms as use incompatibility, support…
The Politics of Land Grabbing
Approaching land grabbing as a site of politics wherein power functions in the challenge and/or stabilization of agrarian socioecological injustices, we capture agrarian relations in Cameroon in 2 fundamental ways. Drawing on Laclauian insights, we discuss power as a "counter-hegemonic" practice, to characterize the resistance strategies of local NGOs, in terms of their articulated discourses around the socioecological effects of land grabs, on t…
The politics of Estonia’s offshore wind energy programme
There is growing recognition that marine spatial planning is an inherently political process marked by a clash of discourses, power and conflicts of interest. Yet, there are very few attempts to make sense of and explain the political practices of marine spatial planning protests in different contexts, especially the way that planners and developers create the conditions for the articulation of objections, and then develop new strategies to negot…
Taking power to sea
Responding to calls for a more theoretically driven, post-positivist and radical marine spatial planning research that approaches the policy as a political project, this paper develops a post-structuralist discourse theory approach to critical marine spatial planning. Elaborating radical contingency as an ontological condition of social life, which points to the ineradicability of power and conflict in marine spatial planning social relations, th…
Power and resistance in Cameroon – strategies, intentionality, intersectionality, and shifting spaces and identities
This paper examines how forest communities in Cameroon engage in social transformation when faced with social injustices and uneven power relations in their interactions with local state authorities and transnational corporations. It focuses on the different strategies that marginalized resource-dependent communities employ in resisting existing forms of domination manifested in public–private-community forest governance relations. We show how po…
Taking power to sea
Responding to calls for a more theoretically driven, post-positivist and radical marine spatial planning research that approaches the policy as a political project, this paper develops a post-structuralist discourse theory approach to critical marine spatial planning. Elaborating radical contingency as an ontological condition of social life, which points to the ineradicability of power and conflict in marine spatial planning social relations, th…
The Politics of Land Grabbing
Approaching land grabbing as a site of politics wherein power functions in the challenge and/or stabilization of agrarian socioecological injustices, we capture agrarian relations in Cameroon in 2 fundamental ways. Drawing on Laclauian insights, we discuss power as a "counter-hegemonic" practice, to characterize the resistance strategies of local NGOs, in terms of their articulated discourses around the socioecological effects of land grabs, on t…
The politics of Estonia’s offshore wind energy programme
There is growing recognition that marine spatial planning is an inherently political process marked by a clash of discourses, power and conflicts of interest. Yet, there are very few attempts to make sense of and explain the political practices of marine spatial planning protests in different contexts, especially the way that planners and developers create the conditions for the articulation of objections, and then develop new strategies to negot…
Power and resistance in Cameroon – strategies, intentionality, intersectionality, and shifting spaces and identities
This paper examines how forest communities in Cameroon engage in social transformation when faced with social injustices and uneven power relations in their interactions with local state authorities and transnational corporations. It focuses on the different strategies that marginalized resource-dependent communities employ in resisting existing forms of domination manifested in public–private-community forest governance relations. We show how po…
Power and resistance in Cameroon – strategies, intentionality, intersectionality, and shifting spaces and identities
This paper examines how forest communities in Cameroon engage in social transformation when faced with social injustices and uneven power relations in their interactions with local state authorities and transnational corporations. It focuses on the different strategies that marginalized resource-dependent communities employ in resisting existing forms of domination manifested in public–private-community forest governance relations. We show how po…
Taking power to sea
Responding to calls for a more theoretically driven, post-positivist and radical marine spatial planning research that approaches the policy as a political project, this paper develops a post-structuralist discourse theory approach to critical marine spatial planning. Elaborating radical contingency as an ontological condition of social life, which points to the ineradicability of power and conflict in marine spatial planning social relations, th…
The politics of Estonia’s offshore wind energy programme
There is growing recognition that marine spatial planning is an inherently political process marked by a clash of discourses, power and conflicts of interest. Yet, there are very few attempts to make sense of and explain the political practices of marine spatial planning protests in different contexts, especially the way that planners and developers create the conditions for the articulation of objections, and then develop new strategies to negot…
The Politics of Land Grabbing
Approaching land grabbing as a site of politics wherein power functions in the challenge and/or stabilization of agrarian socioecological injustices, we capture agrarian relations in Cameroon in 2 fundamental ways. Drawing on Laclauian insights, we discuss power as a "counter-hegemonic" practice, to characterize the resistance strategies of local NGOs, in terms of their articulated discourses around the socioecological effects of land grabs, on t…
Oceans of Conflict
Festering ocean conflict thwarts efforts to realize the Agenda 2030 Sustainable Development Goals. This paper explores transformations of ocean conflict into situated sustainability pathways that privilege human needs, justice and equity. We first outline the promise and limits of prevailing ocean/coastal governance practices, with a focus on marine spatial planning (MSP), which by framing conflict in shallow terms as use incompatibility, support…
Blue justice through and beyond equity and participation
While blue justice has gained traction, recognition and capability, which are necessary conditions for procedural and distributive justice, remain under-developed. We develop a four-dimensional blue justice framework that builds on recognition and capabilities to critically examine and advance justice in Poland’s marine spatial planning (MSP). We find that misrecognition of differential identities and capacities scripted powerless stakeholders ou…
Exploring social justice in marine spatial planning
This article contributes to the increasing traction of social justice in marine spatial planning (MSP) by exploring perceptions and experiences of social justice from the viewpoint of planners and different social groups who were included and (self)excluded in MSP processes. The study builds on empirical material from Poland, Latvia, and Germany consisting of interviews, MSP legislation, and documents that were analysed through the lens of a mult…
Ways forward in transdisciplinary research
Transdisciplinary research has been put forward as a means to foster a radical shift in traditional scientific paradigms by promoting knowledge democracy while tackling wicked problems. This paper analyses how local social-ecological dynamics and institutional realities affect the way in which transdisciplinary research generates knowledge and develops sustainability pathways in diverse marine and coastal conflict contexts. Drawing on a cross-cas…
Green Defence in the Racial‐Colonial Anthropocene
This article argues that powerful Western militaries are central architects of the necropolitics underpinning contemporary green and digital transitions. As climate change is increasingly framed as a security threat, NATO, the United States and the European Union pursue climate‐resilient defence infrastructures whose material foundations depend on strategic minerals extracted under conditions of armed conflict, displacement, sexual violence and p…
Hydropower after empire
Hydropower has become a central pillar of energy security and low-carbon development across the global South, yet its expansion is increasingly shaped by colonial legacies, geopolitical tensions, and financing constraints. This paper examines these dynamics through a qualitative case study of the 5150-megawatt Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD) employing a multi-scalar analytical framework and drawing on colonial-era treaties, policy document…
Sociology (8 obras) · Political science (7 obras) · Politics (7 obras) · Coastal and Marine Management (6 obras) · Economics (6 obras) · Law (6 obras) · Geography (5 obras) · International Maritime Law Issues (5 obras) · Environmental planning (4 obras) · Environmental resource management (4 obras)