Deconstructing Hegemonic Discourses in Global Environmental Regimes: An Intersectional Ecofeminist and Decolonial Analysis

• Název práce v češtině: Dekonstrukce hegemonních diskurzů v rámci globálních environmentálních režimů: Intersekcionální, ekofeministická, dekoloniální analýza
• Název v anglickém jazyce: Deconstructing Hegemonic Discourses in Global Environmental Regimes: An Intersectional Ecofeminist and Decolonial Analysis
• Klíčová slova: Globální environmentální politika, Intersekcionalita, Ekofeminismus, Myšlenková dekolonizace, Poststrukturalismus, Diskurzivní teorie, Sociální konstrukce, Dualismus
• Klíčová slova anglicky: Global Environmental Politics, Intersectionality, Ecofeminism, Decolonial Thought, Poststructuralism, Discourse Theory, Social Construction, Dualisms
• Akademický rok vypsání: 2023/2024
• Typ práce: diplomová práce
• Jazyk práce: angličtina
• Ústav: Katedra politologie (23-KP)
• Vedoucí / školitel: Mgr. Anna Kotvalová
• Řešitel: skrytý - zadáno vedoucím/školitelem
• Datum přihlášení: 11.04.2024
• Datum zadání: 11.04.2024
• Datum a čas obhajoby: 27.01.2025 09:00
• Místo konání obhajoby: Areál Jinonice, C520, 520, seminární místnost IPS
• Datum odevzdání elektronické podoby: 04.01.2025
• Datum proběhlé obhajoby: 27.01.2025
• Oponenti: Mgr. Jakub Tesař, Ph.D.

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Předběžná náplň práce v anglickém jazyce

Amidst the accelerating planetary crisis, this thesis aims to deconstruct hegemonic discourses in global environmental regimes that emerged since the first United Nations (UN) conference on the Human Environment in 1972. As this conference and subsequent summits from Stockholm (1972, 2022) to Rio (1992, 2012) and beyond have become landmarks in global environmental politics, their declarations articulate hegemonic frameworks for addressing environmental issues. However, an evolving body of literature has recognised and critiqued the modernist ontology and coloniality underlying global environmental politics (e.g., Blaney & Tickner, 2017; Blaser, 2013; DePuy et al., 2022; DiChiro, 2017; Escobar, 2020; Rojas, 2016).

Hence, this research seeks to answer the following (preliminary) research questions:
• What are hegemonic discourses in global environmental regimes, and how have these discourses evolved since the emergence of global environmental summits in 1972?
• Which dualisms and ontological assumptions underpin these hegemonic discourses from an intersectional ecofeminist and decolonial perspective?

Accordingly, the theoretical framework of this thesis incorporates intersectional ecofeminist, decolonial and poststructuralist theory. By deconstructing the discourses, dualisms, and ontological assumptions that dominate global environmental regimes from this theoretical perspective, the research aims to uncover value hierarchies that underpin and thus influence environmental policies. To this end, Laclau and Mouffe’s (1985) poststructuralist discourse theory will be adopted to conduct a discourse theoretical analysis (DTA), whereby the focus is macro-textual and macro-contextual (Carpentier, 2017). DTA will be deployed to analyse purposively selected UN environmental declarations such as the Stockholm Declaration (1972), the Rio Declaration on Environment and Development (1992) and the Stockholm +50 Declaration (2022). Hence, the research design of this thesis is qualitative and based on the premise of non-essentialism, non-foundationalism, and social constructivism.