Papers by Pinar Temocin
One Earth, 2023
Many sustainability challenges, such as contamination of air, water, and soil or climate change, ... more Many sustainability challenges, such as contamination of air, water, and soil or climate change, can be traced back to specific polluting substances (e.g., mercury), technologies (e.g., combustion engines), or practices (e.g., waste dumping). To confront these grave challenges, “phase-out” is garnering increasing attention as a policy approach. Although the literature on phase-out is burgeoning, it remains unclear how the concept has evolved across scientific disciplines and policy. In this review, we use a coding-based mapping approach to systematically unpack the scientific discourse on phase-out since 1970, focusing on the contribution of different scientific disciplines, targets and drivers of phase-outs, instruments, affected industries, and geographical context. We find that the focus of phase-out has shifted from toxic pollution to climate change, and that the scope of phase-out targets has broadened. Results further suggest that phase-out is emerging as a bridging concept to foster transdisciplinary dialogues and transformative actions toward greater sustainability.
Energy Research & Social Science
Interface, 2021
Anti-nuclear civil society activism starting with peace advocacy is considered
to be a process co... more Anti-nuclear civil society activism starting with peace advocacy is considered
to be a process consisting of strategic actions and civic engagement in the
decision-making process. This research examines what made civil society in
Aotearoa New Zealand successful between the mid-1960s and 1980s with a
particular focus on their action repertoire through a goal-oriented approach.
This study highlights the importance of civil society engagement in activism
while identifying the relationship between maximized tactics, strategies and
political environment in the anti-nuclear struggle in New Zealand.
To gain an accurate analysis of success in New Zealand’s anti-nuclear debate,
this research focuses on the extent to which anti-nuclear actors have been able
to achieve their objectives and the degree to which influential activities have
effectively been involved in the process. The results reveal that the political
actors and civil society actively participating in the policy-shaping process
and their involvement signified strong anti-nuclear advocacy under the peace
and security narratives.
Mobilization: an International Quarterly, 2020
The paper provides information on the book entitles Post-Fukushima Activism: Politics and Knowled... more The paper provides information on the book entitles Post-Fukushima Activism: Politics and Knowledge in the Age of Precarity written by Dr. Azumi Tamura.
Aotearoa New Zealand provides an important example of successful citizen activism in the form of ... more Aotearoa New Zealand provides an important example of successful citizen activism in the form of anti-nuclear peace advocacy. The collective efforts by peace actors over several decades resulted in the successful demand for a nuclear-free nation. This paper highlights the widespread participation and political support that facilitated the process and assesses its achievements.
Following the 2010 nuclear deal between Russia and Turkey, several consequent
revelations of admi... more Following the 2010 nuclear deal between Russia and Turkey, several consequent
revelations of administrative deficiencies in the Turkish nuclear program, the
Fukushima accident, and waste issues all spurted widespread protests across Turkey.
This study analyzes how groups opposing nuclear power plants have framed the
Akkuyu nuclear project as a dangerous, risky, disadvantageous, and irrational policy
choice. Through analysis of empirical data from a range of sources such as in situ
observation, semi-structured interviews, articles, and websites,
Complete journal issues by Pinar Temocin
by Laurence Cox, Shewly Hosna, Eva Gerharz, Lia Pinheiro Barbosa, Pinar Temocin, Louise Caffrey, marios panierakis, Thomas Cury, Antônio A Braighi, Marco Túlio Câmara, Giorgos Charalambous, Kei Takata, and dawn paley Interface, 2021
Like many of the movement projects we work with around the world, Interface is living in interest... more Like many of the movement projects we work with around the world, Interface is living in interesting times. The rise of new authoritarianisms, far-right movements and state and freelance repression of movement spaces and radical academic work create pressure on some of us individually and on the other projects we are involved in. The ongoing pandemic, the crisis of care it has highlighted and the sudden transformations of work particularly for the precarious have disrupted the time and energy of many activists and engaged researchers. Many of our editors have had to put their engagement in the project on hold for the duration of the crisis as they struggle in solidarity with their own movements, with people immediately in need, with their students and colleagues and as they try to cope with the disruptions of their own lives. Others of us have not been able to do as much as we had hoped. "And yet, it moves!" We are still here, starting to recover and with new editors beginning to join us, part of global movement struggles to resist crisis politics from above and the attempt to impose a "new normal" that reinscribes racism and patriarchy, capitalism and authoritarianism, climate death and cultural destruction on our planet. Now, more than ever, movements "from below and on the left" around the planet need to be talking to and learning from each other, to find out what works and what doesn't, and to make many worlds possible in place of the one devastation the Empire offers us.
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Papers by Pinar Temocin
to be a process consisting of strategic actions and civic engagement in the
decision-making process. This research examines what made civil society in
Aotearoa New Zealand successful between the mid-1960s and 1980s with a
particular focus on their action repertoire through a goal-oriented approach.
This study highlights the importance of civil society engagement in activism
while identifying the relationship between maximized tactics, strategies and
political environment in the anti-nuclear struggle in New Zealand.
To gain an accurate analysis of success in New Zealand’s anti-nuclear debate,
this research focuses on the extent to which anti-nuclear actors have been able
to achieve their objectives and the degree to which influential activities have
effectively been involved in the process. The results reveal that the political
actors and civil society actively participating in the policy-shaping process
and their involvement signified strong anti-nuclear advocacy under the peace
and security narratives.
revelations of administrative deficiencies in the Turkish nuclear program, the
Fukushima accident, and waste issues all spurted widespread protests across Turkey.
This study analyzes how groups opposing nuclear power plants have framed the
Akkuyu nuclear project as a dangerous, risky, disadvantageous, and irrational policy
choice. Through analysis of empirical data from a range of sources such as in situ
observation, semi-structured interviews, articles, and websites,
Complete journal issues by Pinar Temocin
to be a process consisting of strategic actions and civic engagement in the
decision-making process. This research examines what made civil society in
Aotearoa New Zealand successful between the mid-1960s and 1980s with a
particular focus on their action repertoire through a goal-oriented approach.
This study highlights the importance of civil society engagement in activism
while identifying the relationship between maximized tactics, strategies and
political environment in the anti-nuclear struggle in New Zealand.
To gain an accurate analysis of success in New Zealand’s anti-nuclear debate,
this research focuses on the extent to which anti-nuclear actors have been able
to achieve their objectives and the degree to which influential activities have
effectively been involved in the process. The results reveal that the political
actors and civil society actively participating in the policy-shaping process
and their involvement signified strong anti-nuclear advocacy under the peace
and security narratives.
revelations of administrative deficiencies in the Turkish nuclear program, the
Fukushima accident, and waste issues all spurted widespread protests across Turkey.
This study analyzes how groups opposing nuclear power plants have framed the
Akkuyu nuclear project as a dangerous, risky, disadvantageous, and irrational policy
choice. Through analysis of empirical data from a range of sources such as in situ
observation, semi-structured interviews, articles, and websites,