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Innovation-the European Journal of Social Science Research | 2017

IRENA as a glocal actor: pathways towards energy governmentality

Franziska Müller

For decades renewable energy has remained a “blind spot” within the sphere of international energy governance. The existing institutional network is highly fragmented, resulting in a myriad of international organizations, which all claim to deal with energy issues, yet do not focus on renewables on a global scale. Since 2009, IRENA, the International Renewable Energy Agency, seeks to fill up this vacuum, thereby creating a new (and maybe more Southern-led) political arena for governing renewable energy issues. This article focuses on IRENA’s role as a changemaker in the sphere of global energy governance by investigating IRENA’s governance practices and contributions to knowledge production.


Resilience | 2017

‘Save the planet, plant a tree!’: REDD+ and global/local forest governance in the Anthropocene

Franziska Müller

Abstract The age of the Anthropocene has developed unique forms and practices of earth system governance, i.e. ways of governing nature and populations on a global/local scale claiming to offer holistic, borderless forms of global/local cooperation that bridge nature/culture/society divides and seek to create a universalised, ‘planetary’ actorness. With regard to climate change adaptation, this actorness is increasingly stretched out to the postcolonial sphere, including small-scale farmer communities, forest-dwellers and indigenous communities, who are all addressed as responsible subjects through the IPCC’s Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Degradation (REDD+) measures. As a powerful instrument of global climate governance, REDD+ programmes create highly complex regimes, thereby totalising the principle of liberal ‘stakeholder governance’. This article addresses REDD+ as a specific case of ‘Anthropocene geopolitics’ that have discovered ‘the local’ as a site of powerful ecological intervention, taking place in a postcolonial setting. Based on an analysis of inter/transnational REDD+ funds, their activities, outcomes and forms of governing nature and populations, the aim is to identify distinct political technologies that orchestrate the REDD+ regime and discuss how they reshape nature-society relations in the Anthropocene.


Archive | 2016

How to Study Myths: Methodological Demands and Discoveries

Franziska Müller

To research myths, the discipline of International Relations (IR) has to resolve a number of methodological questions arising both from the fuzzy nature of myths and from some long-standing methodological neglects that have pervaded the discipline for some time. This chapter outlines methodological demands for a mythographical research agenda with respect to: (a) myth as a concept that pervades the IR discipline, thereby creating certain narratives and monolithic dogmas (Which myths are told through acts of IR storytelling?); and (b) myths as an analytical and empirical focus within IR (What could be the role of the researcher as a ‘mythographer’? How do we aim to discover, translate, interpret, or unveil myths?). Based on these epistemological and (meta-) theoretical reflections, and on an auto-ethnographic reflection, Muller discusses qualitative approaches that seem adequate and promising for empirical studies on myths with regard to their methodological potentials (and potential caveats).


Archive | 2017

Vom Kohle- zum Dekarbonisierungspfad? Transformationen südafrikanischer Energiepolitik

Franziska Müller

Sudafrikas Energiepolitik ist ein klassisches Beispiel fur ein Politikfeld, das durch extreme Pfadabhangigkeit gepragt ist. Im historischen Verlauf hat das Zusammenspiel politischer, soziookonomischer und geopolitischer Faktoren bewirkt, dass Sudafrikas Energiewirtschaft von Kohlekraftwerken dominiert wird und sich der seit Jahrzehnten recht konstante Energiemix nur zogerlich in Richtung einer Dekarbonisierung oder dezentralisierter Energieversorgung verandern lasst. 2013 betrug der Anteil von Kohle an der Stromerzeugung 93 %, Kernenergie lag bei 5 %, gefolgt von Wasserkraft mit 2 %, wahrend Ol bzw. erneuerbare Energien noch weniger als 1 % am Energiemix ausmachten. Zwischen 1992 und 2012 haben sich die CO2-Emissionen Sudafrikas um 45 % erhoht. Sie liegen damit auf einem ahnlichen Niveau wie die Emissionen Saudi-Arabiens, Brasiliens und Mexikos und haben das Emissionsvolumen Frankreichs, Italiens oder Spaniens sogar uberschritten. Weltweit gesehen bewegt sich Sudafrika damit beim Pro-Kopf-Ausstos von CO2-Aquivalenten zwischen Rang 10 und 15 und ist fur 40 % der CO2-Emissionen Subsahara-Afrikas verantwortlich. Gleichzeitig hat Sudafrika als eine der ersten emerging powers konkrete Klimareduktionsziele beschlossen und strebt an, bis 2020 34 % seiner Emissionen zu reduzieren und bis 2013 42 % seiner Energie aus erneuerbaren Energien zu beziehen.


Archive | 2016

Myths of the Near Future: Paris, Busan, and Tales of Aid Effectiveness

Franziska Müller; Elena Sondermann (Elternzeit)

Muller and Sondermann analyse myths in development cooperation and focus on the aid effectiveness discourse. Empirically, they begin with the Paris Declaration on Aid Effectiveness (2005) and critically examine the developmental terminologies that have been brought up in the declaration and unfolded during the follow-up process. With a focus on the High-Level Forum in Busan (November 2011), where emerging (or ‘new’) donors played an important role, they ask to what extent the myths have been retold and diversified. For their analysis, the authors refer to Barthes’ structuralist understandings of myths bearing silencing, harmonising, depoliticising, or emancipatory functions as well as to the reception of political mythology in poststructuralist IR theory.


Archive | 2014

Aufstrebende Mächte in der internationalen Energie-Governance

Michèle Knodt; Franziska Müller; Nadine Piefer

Dieser Beitrag betrachtet die Energiepolitik der vier „Emerging Powers“ China, Indien, Brasilien und Sudafrika in der internationalen Energiepolitik. Ein kurzer Uberblick internationaler Energiebeziehungen befasst sich mit Fragmentierung und institutionellem Wandel auf diesem Politikfeld. Darauf folgen vier Landerkapitel, welche jeweils auf die Binnenstruktur energie-politischen Regierens eingehen, dann die Aktivitaten in der Energieausenpolitik schildern, Problematiken und Entwicklungstendenzen erlautern und die normative Rahmung der Energiepolitik benennen. Abschliesend bilanzieren wir, wie die vier Staaten in der internationalen Energiepolitik reprasentiert sind und stellen fest, dass sich die Verschiebung globaler Krafteverhaltnisse hin zu einer multipolaren Weltordnung in der Energiepolitik bisher ambivalent ausert: in der Koexistenz von Institutionen, die eher die OECD-Welt abbilden; aber auch – und dafur steht IRENA, die International Renewable Energy Agency – in der Schaffung einer neuen Institution, welche hohe Attraktivitat gerade fur Staaten des globalen Sudens aufweist.


Archive | 2008

Nachhaltige Agrarpolitik als reflexive Politik

Peter H. Feindt; Manuel Gottschick; Tanja Mölders; Franziska Müller; R. Sodtke; Sabine Weiland


Archive | 2015

Im Namen liberaler Normen

Franziska Müller


FEMINA POLITICA – Zeitschrift für feministische Politikwissenschaft | 2010

Verhandelte Geschlechterverhältnisse: Gender in der internationalen Biodiversitätspolitik

Franziska Müller


Archive | 2017

Das politische System Südafrikas

Dana de la Fontaine; Franziska Müller; Claudia Hofmann; Bernhard Leubolt

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Sabine Weiland

Free University of Berlin

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Peter H. Feindt

Humboldt State University

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Michèle Knodt

Technische Universität Darmstadt

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Nadine Piefer

Technische Universität Darmstadt

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