CEU Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2021
| Author | Simpson, Jennifer |
|---|---|
| Title | Decentralized Supranational Climate Governance in Abolitionist Orientations |
| Summary | Contemporary supra- and international governance organizations have refused to ensure basic human rights for billions of people across the globe. Falsely framed as a problem of scarcity, that we do in fact have the resources to provide essential necessities such as food, housing, infrastructure, and disaster relief is a moral failure that contravenes the legitimacy of these institutions. If supranational governance organizations (SGOs) are to guarantee human rights, how will they need to be structured, particularly with attention to the precarities that climate crises present? Decentralization, here in a polycentric, multiscalar form with local and autonomous nodes, is the alternative to hierarchical, elite, and abstracted governance. Theories premised on the acceptance of state violence are fundamentally inadequate: to guarantee human rights, SGOs must be institutionally inter- and intra-interactionally non-violent. This proposal draws inspiration from anarchic principles and abolition movements, addressing the known problems of supra- and international governance organizations in order to reimagine SGOs as both just and logistically effective. Non-violence requires cooperation, which in turn requires that each SGO be accountable, democratic, and transparent, with open access knowledge and ambulatory network connections. Climate crises additionally require that SGOs be redundant, interdependent, flexible and adaptable, with the ability to be safely experimental. Reallocation of essential resources is not contingent on political maneuvering, but instead determined by algorithm. SGO managers affirm network connections and coordinate reallocations, with safeguards against mal- and misfeasance, and democratic mechanisms for impacted demoi. Although this proposal is ideal in that it is predicated on communal essential resources, the logistics of a decentralized SGO network may be of use for international mutual aid, managing voluntary association in confederalism, and political theory beyond the binary—self-interested or cooperative—of the human condition. |
| Supervisor | Miklosi, Zoltan |
| Department | Political Science MA |
| Full text | https://www.etd.ceu.edu/2021/simpson_jennifer.pdf |
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