Dr Celine Germond-Duret
Lecturer in Environmental Politics and PolicyProfile
I am a Lecturer in Environmental Politics and Policy, with specific interests in marine policy and the blue economy, international climate politics, and indigenous peoples.
My research appeared in Development and Change; Environment, Development and Sustainability; Marine Policy; Third World Quarterly; Sustainable Development, among others. I co-edited a special issue on the Blue Economy to be published in The Geographical Journal; an edited volume on Blue Economy: People and Regions in Transitions (Routledge, 2023); and I co-authored a forthcoming “blue economy” entry for the International Encyclopedia of Geography (Wiley-AAG).
I have taught on various subjects of social sciences and I am a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy.
Research Overview
My research interests include international environmental politics and sustainability, global development, and North-South relations. My specific expertise covers marine policy and blue economy, international climate politics and global inequalities, indigenous peoples, as well as discourse analysis. My approach is framed within deconstructive and postcolonial approaches.
Research Interests
I obtained my PhD in International Relations from the Graduate Institute of International Studies, Geneva. My research is interdisciplinary, drawing on international relations, development studies, continental philosophy, and human geography. My main focus is on the analysis of discourses and narratives surrounding development policies, international environmental protection and sustainability (including climate politics), as well as marine policy and the blue economy. My expertise spans across global, national and local scales.
My PhD explored development narratives through a discourse analysis that revealed how traditional knowledge was systematically undermined and how development policies were underpinned by colonial thinking. It also scrutinised external interventions conducted on behalf of nature conservation. These are themes that I have kept exploring since. For instance, I have shown that the tradition/modernity dichotomy that is often used in the case of Indigenous peoples maintains harmful hierarchisations (rich/poor, advanced/backward etc.) and justifies neo-colonial interventions. My research on the marine environment has highlighted the need to decolonise knowledge and representations about the sea (moving away from Western and terra-centric visions that have represented the sea as placeless and further acknowledging and valuing non-Western, Indigenous and traditional representations and uses of the marine environment).
From a methodological perspective, I am proficient in quantitative and qualitative mixed methods. This includes surveys and interviews, discourse analysis, and qualitative and quantitative content analysis. I am also trained in PhotoVoice, a community based participatory research whereby participants document their own engagement and experience with the subject investigated.
PhD Supervision Interests
I am happy to supervise research projects related to my research field (see above), in particular: environmental politics, climate politics, sustainable development, ocean governance, Indigenous peoples. I am open to inter/cross-disciplinary projects (e.g. international relations, political science, human geography); as well as to a wide-range of qualitative methods (e.g. discourse analysis, photo elicitation, etc.)
Representation of the Sea
01/02/2017 → …
Research
Blue Economy
01/03/2016 → …
Research
Peer Reviewing of ESRC research proposal
Other
Indo Pacific Journal of Ocean Life (Journal)
Publication peer-review
Arctic Circle Assembly
Participation in conference -Mixed Audience
Defra - Marine and Fisheries Social Sciences workshop
Expert Opinion
AstraZeneca (External organisation)
Membership of committee
Wiley (Publisher)
Publication peer-review
South African Journal of Science (Journal)
Publication peer-review
Marine Management Organisation
Business Engagement
'Blue Economy Contested Narratives'
Invited talk
Distributed Critique, Weather Engines
Public Lecture/ Debate/Seminar
Publication of "Representation of the Sea in the UK Press: Public Awareness of the Oceans"
Other
Public Talk 'Perception of the Sea in Morecambe and Beyond' (ESRC Festival of Social Science)
Types of Public engagement and outreach - Festival/Exhibition
ESRC Festival of Social Science 2021: Perception of the Sea in Morecambe and Beyond
Types of Public engagement and outreach - Festival/Exhibition
'Navigating towards a sustainable blue economy' Roundtable
Participation in workshop, seminar, course
Coastal Transitions: Blue Economy
Participation in conference -Mixed Audience
Regional Studies Association Research Network for Sustainability Transitions in the Coastal Zone
Participation in workshop, seminar, course
RGS-IBG Annual International Conference
Participation in conference -Mixed Audience
RGS-IBG Annual International Conference
Participation in conference -Mixed Audience
RGS-IBG Annual International Conference
Participation in conference -Mixed Audience
RGS-IBG Annual International Conference
Participation in conference -Mixed Audience
Advancing Green Growth in Peru: a Spotlight on Tourism, Transport and the Blue Economy
Participation in conference -Mixed Audience