CfP: GreenDeal-NET Workshop on the European Green Deal and Democracy, Lisbon 27-28 June 2023
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Diarmuid Torney
Mar 24, 2023, 6:17:56 AM3/24/23
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Dear all,
Please see below a Call for Papers for a workshop we are hosting on The European Green Deal and Democracy in Lisbon on 27-28 June 2023. The workshop is hosted within the framework of the Jean Monnet Network on European Green Deal: Governing the EU’s Transition towards Climate Neutrality and Sustainability (GreenDeal-NET).
Full details below. The deadline for abstract submission is 10 April. The Call for Papers is also available on the GreenDeal-NET website. Please share within relevant networks, and get in touch if you have any questions.
Please note that the conference is planned to take place on-site, but arrangements can be made for remote participation where needed. We will closely monitor the COVID-19 safety regulations, and in case international travel is restricted or local regulations do not allow larger events, the conference will be held online only.
Regards,
Diarmuid Torney, Aron Buzogany & Louisa Parks
Call for Papers: GreenDeal-NET Workshop on the European Green Deal and Democracy, Lisbon 27-28 June 2023
The European Green Deal (EGD) was launched as the EU’s “Man on the Moon” moment by Ursula von der Leyen in 2019 following an unprecedented rise in public attention and societal mobilisation related to climate change. The EGD's aim to make Europe climate neutral by 2050 has significant implications for democratic governance and representation in the EU. As climate change is a global challenge affecting all citizens and requires collective action, the EGD needs to ensure that democracy is at the core of the decision-making process both within the EU and also globally. In practice, this implies experimenting with novel forms of democracy, citizen participation and engagement in the decision-making process, for example through the use of citizens' assemblies, public consultations, or digital platforms. It may also mean strengthening energy democracy to ensure that citizens have a say in how their energy is produced, distributed, and consumed.
The nexus between democracy and the EGD can be analysed from the perspectives of representative, deliberative and participatory democracy. From a representative democracy perspective, the EGD can be analyzed in terms of how it is shaped by the actions of elected representatives, including parliamentary debates and voting. This also calls for a better understanding of the role of political parties in shaping the EGD at the national level and the EU, and their responsiveness to voters, organized interests, or public opinion. From a deliberative democracy perspective, the EGD can be analyzed in terms of how it engages citizens in the decision-making process. citizens' climate assemblies, which bring together a representative sample of citizens to deliberate on climate policy, have emerged as part of the “deliberative wave” in Europe both on the national and the EU level recently. In some cases, new participatory assemblies may emerge as part of just transition plans or might be complemented by other forms of public consultation, often involving the use of digital platforms. In terms of participatory democracy, the momentum created by EGD can be analyzed in terms of how it empowers citizens to shape policy for example through energy communities and other forms of community-based initiatives, or climate activism targeting specific policy outcomes. At the same time, all of these perspectives may also include threats to the aims of the EGD emanating from groups that oppose action on climate change, or even deny its existence. Populist right-wing groups have been found to espouse anti-climate positions in this vein.
The workshop, to be held on June 27-28, 2023 in Lisbon (and potentially also online) as part of the First Conference of the Jean Monnet Network on European Green Deal: Governing the EU’s Transition towards Climate Neutrality and Sustainability (GreenDeal-NET), will focus on the intersection of the European Green Deal and democracy, and aims to bring together scholars to explore, inter alia, the following topics:
The European Green Deal (EGD) was launched as the EU’s “Man on the Moon” moment by Ursula von der Leyen in 2019 following an unprecedented rise in public attention and societal mobilisation related to climate change. The EGD's aim to make Europe climate neutral by 2050 has significant implications for democratic governance and representation in the EU. As climate change is a global challenge affecting all citizens and requires collective action, the EGD needs to ensure that democracy is at the core of the decision-making process both within the EU and also globally. In practice, this implies experimenting with novel forms of democracy, citizen participation and engagement in the decision-making process, for example through the use of citizens' assemblies, public consultations, or digital platforms. It may also mean strengthening energy democracy to ensure that citizens have a say in how their energy is produced, distributed, and consumed.
The nexus between democracy and the EGD can be analysed from the perspectives of representative, deliberative and participatory democracy. From a representative democracy perspective, the EGD can be analyzed in terms of how it is shaped by the actions of elected representatives, including parliamentary debates and voting. This also calls for a better understanding of the role of political parties in shaping the EGD at the national level and the EU, and their responsiveness to voters, organized interests, or public opinion. From a deliberative democracy perspective, the EGD can be analyzed in terms of how it engages citizens in the decision-making process. citizens' climate assemblies, which bring together a representative sample of citizens to deliberate on climate policy, have emerged as part of the “deliberative wave” in Europe both on the national and the EU level recently. In some cases, new participatory assemblies may emerge as part of just transition plans or might be complemented by other forms of public consultation, often involving the use of digital platforms. In terms of participatory democracy, the momentum created by EGD can be analyzed in terms of how it empowers citizens to shape policy for example through energy communities and other forms of community-based initiatives, or climate activism targeting specific policy outcomes. At the same time, all of these perspectives may also include threats to the aims of the EGD emanating from groups that oppose action on climate change, or even deny its existence. Populist right-wing groups have been found to espouse anti-climate positions in this vein.
The workshop, to be held on June 27-28, 2023 in Lisbon (and potentially also online) as part of the First Conference of the Jean Monnet Network on European Green Deal: Governing the EU’s Transition towards Climate Neutrality and Sustainability (GreenDeal-NET), will focus on the intersection of the European Green Deal and democracy, and aims to bring together scholars to explore, inter alia, the following topics:
- Democracy and environmental justice, particularly 'just transitions'
- Representative democracy: parties, parliaments and European Green Deal: e.g. legislative behavior related to EGD in the EP or national parliaments
- Deliberative democracy: citizens' climate assemblies and other democratic inclusive forums
- Participatory democracy: e.g., energy communities and EGD
- Democracy, populism, opposition to climate action
- Energy democracy
- Political theory/democratic theory
- EU studies and EU climate governance
- Party politics and legislative studies
- Social movement studies
- Energy social science
Please note that the conference is planned to take place on-site, but arrangements can be made for remote participation where needed. We will closely monitor the COVID-19 safety regulations, and in case international travel is restricted or local regulations do not allow larger events, the conference will be held online only.
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Diarmuid Torney
Ollamh Comhlach | Scoil an Dlí agus Rialtais | Ollscoil Chathair Bhaile Átha Cliath
Associate Professor | School of Law and Government | Dublin City University
Co-director, DCU Centre for Climate & Society
Programme chair, MSc in Climate Change: Policy, Media and Society
GLA.C220 | Foirgneamh Henry Grattan | Campas Ghlas Naíon, Ollscoil Chathair Bhaile Átha Cliath
GLA.C220 | Henry Grattan Building | Glasnevin Campus, Dublin City University
Recent publications:
Environmental Justice in Ireland (collaborative project with Community Law and Mediation, 2022)
Ireland and the Climate Crisis (Palgrave, 2020)
Climate Governance and the European Green Deal in Turbulent Times (special issue of Politics and Governance, 2021)
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