Beyond 2%: From climate philanthropy to climate justice philanthropy

Philanthropic foundations have long exerted influence in the international climate arena. Over 30 years on from their early forays into climate debates, this report asks how effective they have been. How relevant are their theories of change and worldviews today? And what can philanthropic foundations do to position themselves at the vanguard of meaningful change in the climate arena?In partnership with the United Nations Research Institute for Social Development (UNRISD), the EDGE Funders Alliance launched this report on climate philanthropy that takes a fresh look at the state of play in the sector, and sets out the case for grounding climate philanthropy in climate justice and just transition principles

L’agence de presse Libération-paysans

C’est en 1972, dans l’effervescence de l’après-Mai 68 qu’est créé le bulletin Agence de presse libération paysans (APL-P), à l’image de celui de l’Agence de presse libération, qui lui donna son nom. L’objectif assigné à ce journal est de mettre en mouvement les masses paysannes en leur permettant d’être les porte-voix de leurs propres luttes. Il s’agit à la fois de faire entendre leurs préoccupations et de favoriser une prise de conscience de la paysannerie, prise de conscience considérée comme un préalable à tout processus révolutionnaire. Pourtant, le bulletin APL-P ne parvient pas à atteindre son objectif. Cet échec est analysé à travers le contexte politique et social, ses effets sur la nouvelle gauche paysanne, ainsi que le profils des militants impliqués dans sa réalisation.The Agence de Presse Libération-Paysans (APL-P – Liberation news service – small-scale farmers) was created in 1972, in the effervescence following the events of May 1968. It was modelled on the Liberation News Service, whose name it borrowed. The goal of the paper was to mobilize the agrarian masses by making small farmers the spokespeople of their own movement. The aim was both to voice their concerns and raise awareness amongst small-scale farmers – since such awareness was deemed a pre-requisite for any revolutionary process. And yet the APL-P bulletin never managed to fulfil its mandate. This failure is analysed in terms of the political and social context, its effects on the agrarian new left, as well as the profiles of the activists involved in its creation

Funding and the Future of the Global Justice Movement

Edouard Morena explores the effects of financial issues on the future of the Global Justice Movement. He examines three organizations: the Confédération paysanne, the Ruckus Society and Oxfam UK. He argues that current funding patterns are progressively leading towards the ‘NGO-ization’ of the movement, that is a shift away from the construction of ideological alternatives to project-based development activities. Development (2006) 49, 29–33. doi:10.1057/palgrave.development.1100254

Words speak louder than actions:The ‘peasant’ dimension of the Confédération Paysanne’s alternative to industrial farming

ACL facteur d'impacteInternational audienceThrough its historical account of the Confédération Paysanne (CP)'s origins and early years (France), this paper explores the ways in which ‘peasant’ discourses are shaped by non-peasant understandings of what ‘being a peasant’ should mean. As we shall see, far from reflecting an innate and immutable ‘peasant’ way of being or seeing, references to ‘peasantness’ and ‘peasant farming’ act as discursive tools to both unite a heterogeneous activist base (composed of marginal and marginalized farmers) and advance organizational interests. This requires the CP – and its predecessors – to respond to a series of external constraints. In the course of this paper, we shall also show how academics play an important mediating role in the process of constructing or adapting the CP's ‘peasant’ discourse

Constructing a new collective identity for the alterglobalization movement:The French Confederation Paysanne (CP) as anti-capitalist 'peasant' movement

European social movements have been central to European history, politics, society and culture, and have had a global reach and impact. Yet they have rarely been taken on their own terms in the English-language literature, considered rather as counterpoints to the US experience. This has been exacerbated by the failure of Anglophone social movement theorists to pay attention to the substantial literatures in languages such as French, German, Spanish or Italian - and by the increasing global dominance of English in the production of news and other forms of media. This book sets out to take the European social movement experience seriously on its own terms, including: the European tradition of social movement theorising - particularly in its attempt to understand movement development from the 1960s onwards the extent to which European movements between 1968 and 1999 became precursors for the contemporary anti-globalisation movement the construction of the anti-capitalist "movement of movements" within the European setting the new anti-austerity protests in Iceland, Greece, Spain (15-M/Indignados), and elsewhere. This book offers a comprehensive, interdisciplinary perspective on the key European social movements in the past forty years. It will be of interest for students and scholars of politics and international relations, sociology, history, European studies and social theory

Introduction. COP21 and the "climatisation" of Global Debates

International audienceContributions to this edited volume examine COP21 as an arena where new framings of global problems, approaches to global governance and actor coalitions are tried and tested; framings, approaches and coalitions whose effects transcend the climate arena. Climate conferences take up an ever-growing number of issues, from debates about development, energy and forests, to biodiversity, global inequality and urban planning, among others. In return, they attract a growing number of actors from very different backgrounds and who each have their own interpretations of the climate problem, its causes and possible solutions. This points to a broader two-way shift in the global climate debate. On the one hand, we are witnessing a globalisation of the climate problem through the inclusion of new issues and actors into the climate regime. This globalisation is more sectorial than spatial, as it mainly relates to the extension of the climate problem to other domains (even if this territorial dimension is also important). On the other hand, a climatisation of the world can be observed, whereby actors present particular issues that were formerly unrelated to the climate regime through a ‘climatic lens’. This leads to the alignment of different topics on the climate problem, and to their treatment according to the dominant logics and practices of the climate regime