{"podcast":{"title":"The IR thinker","slug":"the-ir-thinker-6691770","podcast_index_feed_id":6691770,"rss_url":"https://feeds.acast.com/public/shows/655776911a7d7e0012cbc914","website_url":"https://shows.acast.com/irthinker","image_url":"https://assets.pippa.io/shows/cover/1700230788592-f97a89c769205262be6d5629fc306022.jpeg","author":"Martin Zubko","episode_count":122,"summary":"The IR thinker features in-depth interviews with leading experts in international relations. The IR thinker is an independent, non-partisan and non-aligned platform. It hosts a wide range of perspectives on international relations but does not endorse any political party, government or ideological position. Since its first episode in 2023, The IR thinker has produced more than 100 episodes as a pro bono initiative established by Martin Zubko, an international relations scholar and lecturer. Available on YouTube, Apple Podcasts, Spotify and Amazon Music. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.","last_synced_at":null,"page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-ir-thinker-6691770"},"episode":{"title":"African Agency in Climate Governance - Carl Death | Ep. 14 (2026)","slug":"african-agency-in-climate-governance-carl-death-ep-14-2026","published_at":"2026-05-25T22:55:45+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-ir-thinker-6691770/african-agency-in-climate-governance-carl-death-ep-14-2026","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-ir-thinker-6691770","url":"https://www.irthinker.com/african-agency-in-climate-governance-carl-death","audio_url":"https://sphinx.acast.com/p/open/s/655776911a7d7e0012cbc914/e/6a14d3718ff41815a82d5332/media.mp3","summary":"This episode explores African agency in global climate governance, moving beyond narratives that portray African states solely as vulnerable recipients of climate policy.  Drawing on debates in International Relations, environmental politics, and African climate futures, Dr Carl Death examines how African actors negotiate, contest, and reimagine climate governance across local, continental, and global arenas.  Carl Death Carl Death is a Senior Lecturer in International Political Economy at the University of Manchester. His research focuses on environmental politics in Africa, with a particular interest in critical and postcolonial approaches.  Publications: The Green Economy in South Africa: Global Discourses and Local Politics Four Discourses of the Green Economy in the Global South Green States in Africa: Beyond the Usual Suspects Africanfuturist Socio‐Climatic Imaginaries and Nnedi Okorafor’s Wild Necropolitics Climate Fiction, Climate Theory: Decolonising Imaginations of Global Futures Unfamiliar Families and Disturbing Climate Futures Narrating Transitions to Low Carbon Futures: The Role of Long-Term Strategies in Fossil Fuel Producing Emerging Economies African Climate Futures Content 00:00 – Introduction 02:30 – African agency in global climate governance: realities versus stereotypes 10:21 – Writing climate transition differently: fiction as method 13:32 – Universal models and African political economies 18:04 – Pan-Africanism and coordination in climate governance 23:25 – Key actors in Africa’s climate and energy transition 27:19 – Climate fiction and African agency: insights from fifteen authors 32:49 – Selection and context of African climate fiction 38:37 – Postcolonial, feminist, and queer perspectives on African climate futures 43:47 – Ecop…","meta_description":"This episode explores African agency in global climate governance, moving beyond narratives that portray African states solely as vulnerable recipients of…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":4318,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/the-ir-thinker-6691770/episodes/african-agency-in-climate-governance-carl-death-ep-14-2026/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-ir-thinker-6691770/african-agency-in-climate-governance-carl-death-ep-14-2026.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}