Green states in Africa
Beyond the Usual Suspects
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4328443 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Carl Death (0000-0002-1601-9473, University of Manchester, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2016 |
| Volume | 25 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 116-135 |
| Publication date | 2016-01-02 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Environmental Politics (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0964-4016 • E-ISSN: 1743-8934 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/09644016.2015.1074380 |
| OpenAlex | W2103661084 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 16 |
| References cited | 82 |
Whilst the †̃green state debateâ€TM has primarily focused on a narrow range of usual suspects in the developed world, the debate can be enriched and challenged by considering more diverse cases. Viewing African states from a green state perspective invites empirical reassessment of the geographical scope of the concept, and introduces a new set of conceptual questions about the political significance of transitions in environmental governance. Ecological modernisation theory has largely neglected African states because it is assumed that African states are weak, failing, or failed, and that environmentalism is a post-materialist phenomenon. Whilst both assumptions can be challenged empirically, a biopolitical perspective on the African environmental state, drawing on the work of Michel Foucault, can both position African state development within a longer-term context and challenge some assumptions of ecological modernisation. Examples from Egypt, South Africa, and the Kavango-Zambezi Trans-frontier Conservation Area highlight underestimated continuities in environmental state practices. The international and transnational drivers of the green state in Africa are emphasised, as well as the political dangers of a green †̃state buildingâ€TM project
Context (archaeology) · Corporate governance · Ecological modernization · Economics · Environmental ethics · Environmental governance · Environmentalism · Epistemology · Frontier · Geography · Materialism · Modernization theory · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Sociology · State (computer science) · Energy and Environment Impacts · Foucault, Power, and Ethics · Law · Water Governance and Infrastructure
From colonial fortresses to neoliberal landscapes in Northern Tanzania
Regionalizing Tourism through Transfrontier Conservation
Climate Change Policy Narratives and Pastoralism in Ethiopia
Fostering green economies in Africa through green marketing strategies for environmental sustainability
Can Donors Encourage Authoritarian States to Go Green? Evidence From Vietnamese‒German Development Cooperation
Policies to reduce single-use plastic marine pollution in West Africa
Governing the Climate in the Paris Era
Building a green state? Environmental politics in Georgia
The Politics of Climate Change Adaptation in Development
How to resist the Wall Street Consensus
The archetype of a ‘big green state’? What China tells us about green macrofinancial regimes
The making of ethnic territories
Bringing resource management back into the environmental governance agenda
Four discourses of the green economy in the global South
How to integrate the Global South into the ‘green state’ concept
Greening Leviathan
The State and the Global Ecological Crisis
The silent revolution and the weapons of the weak
The Precarious Balance
Environment and History
Green States and Social Movements
The Nature of the State
Imposing Wilderness
From Welfare State to Ecostate
Third World Political Ecology
Democracy Compromised
The Rise of Conservation in South Africa
The Politics of Actually Existing Unsustainability
Environmental Politics in Egypt
Governmentality, Biopower, and Everyday Life
Understanding Global Environmental Politics
The Green State
Rule of Experts
Society Must Be Defended’
Michel Foucault , Security, Territory, Population
Civilising African Cities
Ecological Modernization and the Global Economy
The Social Cost of Environmental Solutions
Wildlife Media and Representations of Africa, 1950s to the 1970s
China's ascent and Africa's environment
Bringing the State Back In (Yet Again)
Geographies of environmental intervention in Africa
Rethinking the Ecology-Sovereignty Debate
Degrees of statehood
The rise of the state system in Africa
Fragile States’
Ecological modernization as social theory
Naturalising Australian Trees in South Africa
Naturing the Nation
The Green Economy in South Africa
Africa's ‘Charismatic Megafauna’ and Berlin's ‘Two Concepts of Liberty
The limits of governmentality
Contested State Spaces
Crude days ahead? OIL and the resource curse in Sudan
Depression, Dust Bowl, Demography, and Drought
African history and environmental history
The Lie of the Land
From micro-powers to governmentality
The potential and pitfalls of global environmental governance
Cold Monsters and Ecological Leviathans
The Birth of Biopolitics
Security, Territory, Population
Globalization and the Transformation of Environmental Governance
Capacity Building for Ecological Modernization
Blame it on the Weeds
Greening Leviathan
The four faces of the environmental state
Environmentalism, resistance, and solidarity
Non-governmental organisations and governance states
The environmental nation state in decline
Development as Experiment
Climate Change, Conflict and Development in Sudan
The Limits of the State
The Elephant in the Room
Seeing Like a State
Producing Nature and Poverty in Africa
Environmental mainstreaming and post-sovereign governance in Tanzania
| Unique citing works | 16 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1,45 |
| Citation span | 2015 - 2025 (11) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 13 |