From the rich countries club to the end of the land : green worldmaking in five acts

• Main Author: Petrova, Darina
• Other Authors: École de Droit de Sciences Po (Sciences Po) (EdD), Sciences Po (Sciences Po), Institut d'études politiques de Paris - Sciences Po, Jean D'Aspremont
• Format: Doctoral or Postdoctoral Thesis
• Language: English
• Published: HAL CCSD 2023
• Subjects: Green Growth; OECD; Development; Arctic; Croissance verte; OCDE; Développement; Arctique; [SHS.DROIT]Humanities and Social Sciences/Law; Verte; Yamal Peninsula; Arctique*
• Online Access: https://sciencespo.hal.science/tel-04453371

This thesis uses the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) as an observational platform to look at what arguments, tools and mechanisms were employed along the steps of creating legal arrangements that defined and enforced ‘greenness’ in the global governance. Using worldmaking approach and drawing from the critical legal studies, science and technology studies (STS) and anthropology, this thesis addresses the research question through five separate but interconnected stories, presented as Acts. Each Act examines the research question from a different angle, working with global, national and local dimensions. While the first four Acts focus on the OECD, the last Act moves the story to the Yamal Peninsula in the Russian Arctic to observe how the green norms promoted by this organisation play out in practice. In combination the five Acts form an arch, which represents the trajectory of the neo-colonial universal and the liberal politics since the end of the second World War and their interactions with other worldmaking projects. This method offers the space to observe the issues in all their complexity and ambiguity, while the combination and juxtaposition of the Acts enables to point out broader inconsistencies or ‘contradictions in terms’ and draw more general conclusions. Through this approach, the thesis brings to the surface certain semiotic links that were concealed and disconnected in the globalization project and trajectory, and its latest ‘green’ version. Cette thèse utilise l'Organisation de coopération et de développement économiques (OCDE) comme plate-forme d'observation pour examiner quels arguments, outils et mécanismes ont été utilisés tout au long des étapes de création d'arrangements juridiques qui ont défini et appliqué le « vert » dans la gouvernance mondiale. Utilisant une approche de fabrication de mondes et s'inspirant des études juridiques critiques, des études des sciences et des technologies (STS) et de l'anthropologie, cette thèse aborde la question de recherche ...