Publications

CFGS is committed to fostering reflection on the complex array of social forces associated with an increasingly interconnect world. As such, publishing is a core aspect of how our fellows, scholars, and projects mobilize knowledge and promote critical citizenship.

Our fellows and scholars are encouraged to publish and many of our projects engage in various forms of publications including policy papers, case studies, research reports, academic articles, breifing reports, books, and special issue journals.

You can find recent publication highlights organized by project below and a full list of CFGS affiliated publications under 'other publications'.

CFGS Fellows (Current)
Borders in Globalization
EUCAnet
POLIS
Archive

"Moving from fit to fitness for governing water in the Anthropocene" - Michele-Lee Moore et. al

The article "Moving from fit to fitness for governing water in the Anthropocene" reviews two decades of water science and water governance research. The findings show changes in cross-scale spatial and temporal connectivity of water are now well documented, yet the significant implications of these changes for institutional fit and watershed-based governance are not yet adequately addressed in scholarship or practice.

"Hot Mess: Mothering through a Code Red Climate Emergency" - Sarah Marie Wiebe

Drawing on hospital codes to explore the connections, Wiebe opens up tender conversations about intimate matters of how our bodies respond to emergency interventions: informed consent, emergency C-sections, reproductive mental health, and anti-colonial and anti-racist resistance.

"Europeanization as Pragmatic Politics: Italy's Civil Society Actors Operating in the Face of Right-Wing Populism" - Oliver Schmidtike, Fazila Mat & Luisa Chiodi

The article, titled 'Europeanization as Pragmatic Politics: Italy's Civil Society Actors Operating in the Face of Right-Wing Populism', examines how and under what conditions Italy’s civil society organizations (CSOs) have resorted to transnational activism and to what extent these efforts translate into impactful political advocacy.

"The Kids don't want reconciliaion, they want Land Back: thinking about decolonization and settler solidarity after the death of reconciliation" - Keith Cherry

Drawing on interviews with movement participants, Keith explores what participants mean by reconciliation and what they intend by declaring it dead, showing how participants reject forms of decolonization that center the needs of the settler state.

"The role of midstream actors in advancing the sustainability of agri-food supply chains" - Sophia Carodenuto et. al

Sophia Carodenuto co-authored an article in Nature Sustainability recommending how to include midstream actors better in sustainability governance activities. This is an important topic especially in the context of the upcoming due diligence regulations at European level but also in the context of continued high poverty and environmental damage associated with commodity production more generally.

"Migrations as a building bloc of middle-class nation-building? The growing rift between Germany's centre-right and right-wing parties" - Oliver Schmidtke

The article, titled 'Migration as a building bloc of middle-class nation-building? The growing rift between Germany’s centre-right and right-wing parties', Oliver discusses the growing rift between the centre-right and far-right parties in Germany regarding the use of migration and integration as a socio-economic resource and a contemporary reality of German society.

"Dimensions of Global Justice in Taxing Multinationals" - Peter Dietsch & Thomas Rixen

Widespread tax evasion and avoidance have recently led to both significant reforms of international tax governance and increased attention from theorists of global tax justice. Against the background of an analysis of the double challenge of effectiveness and distribution facing the taxation of multinational enterprises, this paper puts forward a taxonomy of recent contributions of the tax justice literature. This taxonomy not only opens up an original angle of interpretation on global tax justice, but also provides a vantage point from which to evaluate recent reforms by the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development.

"External Europeanization through timber trade agreements: tracing causality in environmental governance reform" - Sophia Carodenuto et. al

The business models of tropical timber production have long been configured around illegal practices that cause environmental degradation and hinder socioeconomic progress in the Global South. However, the global corporations trading timber often point to regulatory governance weaknesses in the jurisdictions where they source timber as hindering efforts to address illegalities in their supply chains.

Borders in Globalization Review - Inaugural Issue

BIG_Review is a different kind of journal, transversing disciplinary boundaries and integrating the Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences. Their aspiration is to make widely available academic and artistic explorations of borders in the 21st century. They week to better understand the changing meanings, structures, and functions of international boundaries, bordres, and frontiers.

This inaugural issue includes research articles that explore transborder governance, identity, culture, precaries, and conflict in borderlands across the world, including the Aegean, Eastern Europe, sub-Saharan Africa, the Arab Gulf, indigenous Latin America, and more. This issue also includes academic essays on borde-wall graffiti, aterritorial borders, and French thinker Paul de La Pradelle. It also features a range of artwork, including an artist's portfolio that imagines boundary lines and movement onto canvas, plus original verses from three poets on themes and sentiments related to borders. Book and film review round out this first issue.

Full issue available online here!

Communication & Media Strategies for EU Experts in Canada - Outputs Overview

Canadian universities have outstanding scholarly expertise when it comes to the field of EU and European Studies. Still, there is a remarkable mismatch between the exceptional research knowledge in the academic community and the knowledge available to the broader Canadian public. In order to instigate new knowledge mobilization strategies, our Jean Monnet project MSEUCA developed new communication and media strategies for EU Studies in Canada. Read about our various activities and how we initiated debates around the challenging topic of media trust and media savviness of individual scholars, developed opportunities for young and senior scholars to share their expertise with the public or motivated scholars to start or extend their outreach activities.

Read the summary about MSEUCA's activities here!

EUCAnet Blog

This Blog, as part of the EUCAnet project, will provide some insight into the ongoing discussions based on workshops, webinars, roundtables and conferences, all dedicated to navigating our global problems that emerge out of issues over security, inequality, environmental degradation and migration. We hope to address issues in these fields of public policy making that are of shared concerns to audiences in Canada and Europe and that could benefit from a comparative transatlantic perspective. The Blog will provide an opportunity for many different voices to be heard and to share opinions, perceptions or approaches, including students focusing their research on these issues, practitioners and policy makers responding to these issues and scholars providing an academic interpretation of global challenges. The comment section invites direct feedback and aims to spark further discussion among people from different fields and experiences.

Topics of discussion include democracy, environment, migration, foreign policy, and trade.

For a detailed list of all EUCAnet outputs, visit their website here.

A Watershed Security Fund for British Columbia: Building Resilience and Advancing Reconciliation

This position paper describes a genuine opportunity for the provincial government to create an enduring legacy for freshwater in B.C. It was produced through collaboration between the POLIS Water Sustainability Project, Frist Nations Fisheries Council, BC Wildlife Federation, and BC Freshwater Legacy Initiative.

Read the full report here!

Whose Border? Contested Geographies and Columbia River Treaty Modernization by Jesse Baltutis and Michele-Lee Moore

This paper explores the links between contemporary bordering processes, Indigenous nations traditional territories, and transboundary water governance processes, using the case of the Columbia River Treaty (CRT) modernization process. We posit the Columbia River is shared not just by two nations, but also by multiple Indigenous nations with various inter-nation borders. To-date, the implications of this in practice do not appear to mean a re-imagination of borders, changes in legal authority for CRT renegotiation and implementation, or rethinking the state-centric institutions in which governance of the Columbia River is based. Three primary themes emerged from the empirical data that illustrate: (1) a reaffirmation of state-centric discourse on borders and bordering processes in CRT modernization, while (2) at the same time we see changes in the legal landscape in Canada and the U.S. that inform the obligations of colonial governments to move towards collaboration and shared governance with Indigenous nations on a government-to-government basis on issues impacting Indigenous interests. And, (3) emerging are the seeds of governance structures that seek to engage Indigenous nations within CRT renegotiation and implementation, including potentially providing a seat at the renegotiation table and including Indigenous nations within implementation structures for a modernized CRT.

Read the full paper here!

For a detailed list of all POLIS research reports, policy papers, case studies, and academic articles visit their website here.

2023

"A resilience-based transformations approach to peacebuilding and transformative justice" - Michelle-Lee Moore & Per Olsson

"Climate Change and the Environmental Humanities" - Thomas Heyd

'Le monde d'apres: Les conséquences de la COVID-19 sur les relations internationales" - Peter Dietsch et.al

"CITES as a Tool for Sustainable Development" - Marie-Claire Cordonier Segger et. al

"Just Returns from Capitalist Production" - Peter Dietsch

"The 'Will of the People': The Populist Challenge to Democracy in the Name of Popular Sovereignty" - Oliver Schmidtke et. al

"European Union Governance and Policy-Making, Second Edition: A Canadiana Perspective" - multiple articles by multiple authors (Amy Verdun, Oliver Schmidtke, Paul Schure)

"Mobilizing History: European Integration and its Legitimizing Narrative" - Oliver Schmidtke & Birte Wassenberg

"What factors enable social-ecological transformative potential? The role of learning practices, empowerment and networking" - Michelle-Lee Moore et. al