Kemi Fuentes-George

• PhD
• Professor (Associate) at Middlebury College

There is a growing body of literature calling for the decolonisation of International Relations (IR) theory. This literature, which includes perspectives from the Global South, Indigenous, and feminist approaches, has explained how the colonial thought and White supremacy of early IR scholars like Wilson, Reinsch, and Schmitt shaped the contemporar...

This paper explores the barriers to full and effective Indigenous participation in global climate and biodiversity governance. It examines how post-colonial frameworks, state sovereignty, and neoliberal epistemologies inhibit Indigenous agency, even as institutions like the UN Convention on Biological Diversity (UNCBD) and UN Framework Convention o...

For centuries, colonialism violently remade the world to comport with the emerging global philosophy of white supremacy. This process structured relationships between groups of people and the land around new, interlocking hierarchies of race, gender, class, indigeneity, and epistemology. Today, some six decades after the formal end of colonialism,...

Although the terms “environmental justice” and “environmental racism” emerged due to race-based mobilization in the United States, justice is a constant feature of environmental struggles around the world. Pursuing social justice in environmental advocacy can be difficult, but case studies of activism in places including New Zealand, Mexico, Jamaic...

The complexities and scope of environmental issues have not only outpaced the capacities and responsiveness of traditional political actors but also generated new innovations, constituencies, and approaches to governing environmental problems. In response, comparative environmental politics (CEP) has emerged as a vibrant and growing field of schola...

Networks in Contention: The Divisive Politics of Climate Change. By Jennifer Hadden. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2015. 239p. $88.00 cloth, $30.99 paper. - Volume 16 Issue 2 - Kemi Fuentes-George

Response to Jennifer Hadden’s review of Between Preservation and Exploitation: Transnational Advocacy Networks and Conservation in Developing Countries - Volume 16 Issue 2 - Kemi Fuentes-George

States, transnational networks of scientists, corporate actors, and institutions in the climate change regime have known for decades that iron ore, when dumped in the ocean, can stimulate the growth of plankton. Over the past twenty years, normative disagreements about appropriate behavior have shaped international governance of the phenomenon. Pri...

In the late 2000s, ordinary citizens in Jamaica and Mexico demanded that government put a stop to lucrative but environmentally harmful economic development activities—bauxite mining in Jamaica and large-scale tourism and overfishing on the eastern coast of the Yucatán Peninsula. In each case, the catalyst for the campaign was information gathered...

Payment for ecosystem services (PES) is becoming a dominant approach in generating political and societal support for conservation of globally important biodiversity. PES assumes that corporate actors and policymakers will be more likely to support environmental action if convinced of the economic rationale of doing so. However, by process-tracing...

Review of Hiskes, Richard P., The Human Right to a Green Future: Environmental Rights and Intergenerational Justice.