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Presentation at ISA`s 59th Annual Convention, San Francisco

4th of April 2018- Panel WC40: Wednesday 1:45 PM – 3:30 PM: Knowing Through Comparison in Global Environmental Politics Title: Comparing international organisations through history and Bourdieu: learning from IPCC and IPBES Presentation by: Hannah Hughes and Alice Vadrot Abstract: In our talk we seek to compare the historical establishment of two organisations, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) and the Intergovernmental Platform on Biodiversity (IPBES). However, rather than using comparison to identify the…

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Upcoming Publication: The Social Sciences and the Humanities in the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services

Together with Mariam Akthar Schuster, I’m editing a special issue of “Innovation – The European Journal of Social Science Research”. Here is more about it: The aims of this special issue are to stimulate the debate over the role of the Social Sciences and Humanities (SSH) in IPBES and to provide a basis from which to develop concrete measures on how to cope with disciplinary imbalance in expert groups and other IPBES activities. The development…

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