Alejandro Esguerra
aesguerra.bsky.social
Alejandro Esguerra
@aesguerra.bsky.social
Senior Researcher, Bielefeld University |Global Environmental Knowledge Politics | Expertise Organizations | Social Movements | Objectual IR | Translation
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🌟Officially out now: "The Politics of Beginning. The Origin of Private Authority in the Process of Translation" with @uofmpress.bsky.social OPEN ACCESS www.fulcrum.org/concern/mono...
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2. "The Politics of Beginning" by @aesguerra.bsky.social explores how activists, communities, and NGOs came together to create the Forest Stewardship Council, showing how knowledge is translated into action.

eBook available #OA here!:
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The Politics of Beginning
Developing our understanding of how to translate knowledge into new political projects
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January 26, 2026 at 10:19 AM
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We would like to kindly invite you to our Kolleg-Forum talk by Alejandro Esguerra. He will present his new book: www.fulcrum.org/concern/mono...

"The Politics of Beginning: The Origin of Private Authority in the Process of Translation", 03 December 2025, 10:30 – 12:00

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The Politics of Beginning: The Origin of Private Authority in the Process of Translation
<I>The Politics of Beginning</I> traces the formation of the Forest Stewardship Council (FSC), now the most authoritative private organization for forestry certification. It starts with recounting the...
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December 1, 2025 at 2:29 PM
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As part of the #DoingIPSSwitzerlandSymposium, join us for “Vulnerability in the Anthropocene: Bodies, Infrastructures, and Temporality” — a talk by @aesguerra.bsky.social, mod. by @mweitzel.bsky.social.

🗓 Mon, 24.11.25 | 15:30–17:00 CET
📍 Geneva Graduate Institute & ONLINE
🔽 More information 🔽
November 4, 2025 at 2:59 PM
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📣Lecture by Dr. Alejandro Esguerra: "The Politics of Beginning"
Fixing Futures is excited to bring you our next lecture given by @aesguerra.bsky.social
🕕Tue, 4 November 2025, 6:15pm
📍Seminarhaus Westend Campus, SH 4.104
🎫no registration needed

more information: fixingfutures.eu/2025/10/the-...
October 30, 2025 at 2:38 PM
🌟Officially out now: "The Politics of Beginning. The Origin of Private Authority in the Process of Translation" with @uofmpress.bsky.social OPEN ACCESS www.fulcrum.org/concern/mono...
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September 21, 2025 at 1:04 PM
Der WDR hat mich zu sozialen Bewegungen, Parteien und Teilhabe junger Menschen in Politik interviewt - es braucht demokratische Experimente um unterschiedliche Beteiligungsformate zu erproben!

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https://www1.wdr.de/lokalzeit/fernsehen/ostwestfalen-lippe/studiogast-alejandro-esguerra-pol-soziologe-der-uni-bielefeld-100.html?at_medium=lokalzeit&at_campaign=sharing&at_source=Clipboard
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July 2, 2025 at 7:31 PM
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Muy contenta de participar el próximo martes en un conversatorio organizado por la Universidad de los Andes para conversar sobre mi capítulo en el nuevo libro "Ways of Seeing International Organisations", Negar Mansouri, @drqv.bsky.social, @cambup-polsci.cambridge.org Inscripciones:
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May 30, 2025 at 3:18 PM
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🚨 working paper (w. @morganlcj.bsky.social @markuswagner.bsky.social): Protesters are not judged equally - even if tactics of groups are similar.

We ran an experiment in 🇩🇪 testing how people react to farmers vs. climate activists blocking roads.

What we find is disturbing:

osf.io/preprints/os...
May 16, 2025 at 12:59 PM
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Here's the official version!
📌JOB OPENING: Research Assistant / PhD Candidate (f/m/x) in the research group 'Global #Sustainability Governance' @mattkranke.bsky.social
Candidates with a Master's degree in social sciences (e.g. #PoliticalScience #sociology #economics) are welcome to apply by 4 June.
www.college-uaruhr.de/calls
May 19, 2025 at 11:56 AM
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I gave an interview to Le Monde on the minimal compromise of COP29 in Baku, the impossible moral and political equation of climate finance, the influence of petrostates, and the essentially defensive role of multilateralism in the coming storm of right wing populism...
www.lemonde.fr/planete/arti...
« Les COP font partie des barrages contre la tempête populiste qui déferle sur la planète »
Le sociologue Stefan Aykut tire un premier bilan de la COP29 dans un entretien au « Monde ». Malgré un accord minimal et l’obstruction des pays pétroliers, la conférence pour le climat a montré, à ses...
www.lemonde.fr
November 25, 2024 at 1:05 PM
Uh wow 🍾 I am very much looking forward to reading it!!!
🎉🔜My book "Global Governance on the Ground" is coming out in just two weeks! I will do a proper thread soon. For now, go have a look: global.oup.com/academic/pro... (and pre-order for your library 🤓)
November 19, 2024 at 6:03 PM