Civil Society and Global Governance: The Indirect Participation of Extinction Rebellion in Global Governance on Climate Change
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.46507/jcgpp.v1i1.8Keywords:
Civil Society, Climate change, Extinction Rebellion, Global Governance, Social MovementAbstract
The climate change problem is one of the global challenges faced by global society today. These problems certainly need to be adress in serious manners, especially at the global level. However, for some people, especially at the grassroots, consider global governance related to climate change today is not serious enough to deal with these problems. That is because the nature of the global climate regime is somehow voluntary and non-binding. In this case, civil society can provide the opportunities for the people to contribute to global governance related to climate change. Civil society here can be interpreted as a political space, where association of people can work towards the formation of social and legal rules through non-formal political channels. Extinction Rebellion is one of the civil societies that involves themselves in global discourse related to climate change in international politics arena. This article discusses the form of Extinction Rebellion's involvement in the global climate regime and what dimensions could potentially affected by the movement. This article uses descriptive-qualitative methods with library research data collection techniques. This article found that Extinction Rebellion’s involvement in global governance is an indirect involvement with resistance as their mode of participation, which is indicated by the emergence of mass protest in various cities around the world. In addition, Extinction Rebellion initiate discourse on climate change emergencies to illustrate how important climate problems must be handled seriously at the global level.
References
Booth, E. (2019). Extinction rebellion: Social work, climate change and solidarity. Critical and Radical Social Work, 7(2), 257–261. https://doi.org/10.1332/204986019X15623302985296
Gilding, P. (2019). Climate Emergency Defined (1st ed.). Melbourne: Breakthrough - National Centre for Climate Restoration.
Gready, P., & Robins, S. (2017). Rethinking civil society and transitional justice: lessons from social movements and ‘new’ civil society. International Journal of Human Rights, 21(7), 956–975. https://doi.org/10.1080/13642987.2017.1313237
Gunningham, N. (2017). Building Norms from the Grassroots Up: Divestment, Expressive Politics, and Climate Change. Law and Policy, 39(4), 372–392. https://doi.org/10.1111/lapo.12083
Gunningham, N. (2019). Averting Climate Catastrophe: Environmental Activism, Extinction Rebellion and coalitions of Influence. King’s Law Journal, 30(2), 194–202. https://doi.org/10.1080/09615768.2019.1645424
Hallam, R. (2019). Common Sense to the 21st Century. Retrieved from https://www.rogerhallam.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/Common-Sense-for-the-21st-Century_by-Roger-Hallam-Download-version.pdf
Kimball, L. A., Haas, P. M., Keohane, R. O., & Levy, M. A. (1996). Institutions for the Earth. Sources of Effective International Environmental Protection. The American Journal of International Law, 90(4), 701. https://doi.org/10.2307/2204002
Skrimshire, S. (2019). Activism for End Times : Millenarian Belief in an Age of Climate Emergency Activism for End Times :
Millenarian Belief in an Age of Climate Emergency. Political Theology, 20(6), 518-536. https://doi.org/10.1080/1462317X.2019.1637993
The Extinction Rebellion. (2019). The Extinction Rebellion Guide To Citizens’ Assemblies. Extinction Rebellion, 1, 1–28.
Tramel, S. (2018). Convergence as political strategy: social justice movements, natural resources and climate change. Third World Quarterly, 39(7), 1290–1307. https://doi.org/10.1080/01436597.2018.1460196
Weiss, T. G. (2013). International Organization and Global Governance. In T. G. Weiss & R. Wilkinson (Eds.), International Organization and Global Governance (1st ed.). https://doi.org/10.4324/9780203795972.
Downloads
Published
How to Cite
Issue
Section
License
Please find rights and licences in Journal of Contemporary Governance and Public Policy. By submitting articles or article manuscripts, the author agrees to this policy. No special documents are required.
1. Licence
Use of articles will be governed by the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike licence as currently displayed on the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International Licence (CC BY-SA).
2. Author(s)' Warranties
The author warrants that the article is original, written by the stated author(s), has not been published before, contains no unlawful statements, does not infringe the rights of others, is subject to copyright that is vested exclusively in the author and free of any third-party rights, and that any necessary written permissions to quote from other sources have been obtained by the author(s).
3. User Rights
The spirit of Journal of Contemporary Governance and Public Policy is to disseminate articles published as freely as possible. Under the Creative Commons licence, Journal of Contemporary Governance and Public Policy permits users to copy, distribute, display, and perform the work. Users will also need to attribute authors and Journal of Contemporary Governance and Public Policy for distributing works in journal and other media of publication.
4. Rights of Authors
Authors retain all their rights to the published works, such as (but not limited to) the following rights:
1. Copyright and other proprietary rights relating to the article, such as patent rights,
2. The right to use the substance of the article in future works, including lectures and books,
3. The right to reproduce the article for own purposes,
4. The right to enter into separate, additional contractual arrangements for the non-exclusive distribution of the article's published version (e.g., post it to an institutional repository or publish it in a book), with an acknowledgment of its initial publication in this journal (Journal of Contemporary Governance and Public Policy).
5. Co-Authorship
If the article was jointly prepared by more than one author, any author submitting the manuscript warrants that he or she has been authorised by all co-authors to agree on this copyright and licence notice (agreement) on their behalf and agrees to inform his or her co-authors of the terms of this policy. Journal of Contemporary Governance and Public Policy will not be held liable for anything that may arise due to the author's internal dispute. Journal of Contemporary Governance and Public Policy will only communicate with the corresponding author.
6. Royalties
Being an open-access journal and disseminating articles for free under the Creative Commons licence term mentioned, the author(s) are aware that Journal of Contemporary Governance and Public Policy entitles the author(s) to no royalties or other fees.
7. Miscellaneous
Journal of Contemporary Governance and Public Policy will publish the article (or have it published) if the editorial process is successfully completed and the Journal or its sublicensee is obliged to proceed with its publication. The Journal also reserves the right to conform the article to its preferred style of punctuation, spelling, capitalisation, and usage.
