Ronnie D. Lipschutz 1
RONNIE D. LIPSCHUTZ
Office: Department of PoliticsHome: 213 Dickens Way
234 Crown College Santa Cruz, CA 95064
University of California-Santa CruzPhone: 831-423-1084
Santa Cruz, CA95064
Phone: 8314593275; Fax: 831-459-3125 Date of Birth: 1 July 1952
e-mail: anguages: French (poor); Hebrew (poor)
EDUCATION
DOCTORATE in Energy and Resources, University of California, Berkeley, 1987.
MASTER of SCIENCE in Physics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1978.
BACHELOR of SCIENCE in Physics, BACHELOR of ARTS in Liberal Arts, University of TexasAustin, 1975.
PROFESSIONAL & ACADEMIC EXPERIENCE
Assistant/Associate/Full Professor, Department of Politics, University of California, Santa Cruz, 1990-present.
Provost, College Eight, University of California, Santa Cruz, 2012-present.
Velux Visiting Professor, Dept. of Business & Politics, CopenhagenBusinessSchool, Fall 2011.
Visiting Professor of Politics & International Relations, RoyalHollowayUniversity of London, Sept. 2009-March 2010.
Visiting Fellow/Professor, Centre for Global Political Economy/IR & Politics Group, SussexUniversity, Brighton, UK, Fall Term 2002.
President & Senior Associate, Pacific Institute for Studies in Development, Environment, & Security, Berkeley, 19871993.
Staff Scientist, LawrenceBerkeley Laboratory Energy Performance of Buildings Group, Berkeley, California, 198182.
Research Scientist, Massachusetts Audubon Society, Lincoln, Mass., 1980.
Scientific Staff, Union of Concerned Scientists, Cambridge, Mass. 19781980.
BOOKS & SPECIAL JOURNAL ISSUES
Ronnie D. Lipschutz, Political Economy, Capitalism and Popular Culture (Lanham, Md.: Rowman & Littlefield, 2010).
K. Ravi Raman & ----- (eds.), Corporate Social Responsibility: Comparative Critiques (Basingstoke, Houndsmill: Palgrave Macmillan, 2010).
Gabriella Kütting & ----- (eds.),Global Environmental Governance—Power and Knowledge in a Local-Global World (London: Routledge, 2009).
------The Constitution of Imperium(Boulder, Colo.: Paradigm Publishers, 2009).
------(ed.), Civil Societies and Social Movements: Domestic, Transnational, Global (Aldershot, Hampshire: Ashgate Publishing, 2006). Library of Essays in International Relations.
------, with James K. Rowe, Globalization, Governmentality, and Global Politics--Regulation for the Rest of Us? (London: Routledge, 2005)
Mary Ann Tétreault and -----, Global Politics as if People Mattered (Lanham, Md.: Rowman & Littlefield, 2005; 2nd ed., 2009).
-----, Global Environmental Politics: Power, Perspectives, and Practice (Washington, DC: CQ Press, 2003).
-----, Cold War Fantasies: Film, Fiction, and Foreign Policy (Lanham, Md.: Rowman & Littlefield, 2001).
-----, After Authority: War, Peace and Global Politics in the 21st Century (Albany: SUNY Press, 2000).
----- & Susanne Jonas (eds.), “Beyond the Neo-liberal Peace--From conflict resolution to social reconciliation,” Special issue of Social Justice 25, #4 (1998).
Beverly Crawford & ----- (eds.), The myth of “ethnic conflict”: politics, economics, and “cultural” violence (Berkeley: UC Berkeley International and Area Studies Press, 1998).
-----, with Judith Mayer, Global Civil Society & Global Environmental Governance (Albany: SUNY Press, 1996).
----- (ed.), On Security (New York: Columbia University Press, 1995).
----- & Ken Conca (eds.), The State and Social Power in Global Environmental Politics (New York: Columbia University Press, 1993).
-----, When Nations ClashRaw Materials, Ideology and Foreign Policy (New York: Ballinger/Harper & Row, 1989).
-----, et al., The Energy Saver's Handbook for Town and City People (Emmaus, PA.: Rodale Press, 1982).
-----, Radioactive Waste: Politics, Technology and Risk (Cambridge, Mass.: Ballinger, 1980).
HONORS, AWARDS, FELLOWSHIPS & GRANTS
Honorary Senior Associate Research Fellow, Department of Politics and International Relations, RoyalHollowayUniversity, University of London.
Plenary speaker, Conference on Democratizing Climate Governance, AustralianNationalUniversity, Canberra, July 15-16, 2010.
Co-PI (with Michael Isaacson), Impact Designs: Education and Sustainability through Student Service (IDEASS), Learn and Serve America, National Corporation for Service Learning, 2010-11 ($160,000)
Co-PI (with Ben Crow, Melanie DuPuis, Stephen Gliessman, Ali Shakouri, Michael Isaacson, UCSC; Hillary Nixon, SJSU; faculty at Cabrillo College), NSF grant, Engaged Interdisciplinary Learning in Sustainability (EILS): Enhancing STEM Education Through Social and Technological Literacy, 2010-12 ($500,000)
Offered Chair in Politics and International Relations, Royal Holloway University of London, 2011 (declined)
Visiting Professor of Politics and International Relations & Research Fellow in the Centre for Transnational and Global Studies, RoyalHollowayUniversity of London, 2009-10
Concluding roundtable speaker, Annual Millennium Conference, London School of Economics, Oct. 17-18, 2009.
Plenary speaker, Challenging Globalisation Conference, Royal Holloway University of London, Sept. 2-4, 2009
Keynote speaker, YHTYMÄ seminar on “Politics and Practices of Consumerism,” University of Lapland, Rovaniemi, Finland, April 1-3, 2009
PI (with Ben Crow, Melanie DuPuis, Stephen Gliessman, Ali Shakouri, UCSC), NSF CCLI #0837151: Sustainability Engineering and Ecological Design Learning Partnership (SEED-LP), 2009-11, ($147,303).
Co-PI (with Ben Crow, Melanie DuPuis, Stephen Gliessman, Ali Shakouri, UCSC), NSF CCLI grant: Renewable Energy and Engaged Interdisciplinary Learning for Sustainability (REELS), 2008-10 ($150,000).
Co-PI (with Shelley Hurt, Beatrice Hibou, Linda Weiss), ISA Workshop Grant; France-Berkeley Fund Grant; Funders in Australia, “The Public-Private Hybridization of the 21st Century State,” 2008-2010 ($50,000).
Offered the Raymond and Miriam Ehrlich Eminent Scholar Chair, Political Science Department, University of Florida, Gainesville, 2007 (declined)
PI (with Dr. Ruth Langridge), UC Center for Water Resources, “Securing Access to Water,” 2007-2009 ($56,000)
Co-PI (with Paul Lubeck, Michael Ross, and Michael Watts), UC Institute on Global Conflict and Cooperation, “Petro-Geopolitics: Africa’s “Oil Triangle” and Global Conflict and Cooperation in the 21st Century,” 2005-2007 ($35,000).
Co-PI (with Ben Crow), UCSC Academic Senate Grant, “Water,” 2004-2006 ($15,000)
PI, UC Institute for Labor and Employment, “Labor and Corporate Responsibility,” 2003-2004 ($11,000).
Visiting Research Fellow and Professor, Centre for Global Political Economy and Group in International Relations and Politics, Sussex University, Brighton, UK, Fall 2002.
PI, UC Institute on Global Conflict and Cooperation, “Globalization, Social Regulation, and Transnational Campaigns: Innovation in International Cooperation or More of the Same?” 2002-2003 ($18,000).
Carnegie Corporation of New York, “Globalization, State Capacity, and Self-Determination: ComparativeMuslimStates, Movements, Networks and Strategies,” 2001-2007 ($269,129).
UC Institute for Labor and Employment, “Activist Campaigns, Codes of Conduct, and ‘Corporate Responsibility’,” 2001-2002 ($12,000)
Nonprofit Sector Research Fund, Aspen Institute, “Regulation for the Rest of Us”: Global Civil Society and Global Social Regulation,” 2001-2002 ($40,000).
PacificBasinResearchCenter, HarvardUniversity, “Global Civil Society and Emerging Patterns of Social Regulation in the PacificBasin,” 2000-2001 ($20,000).
National Oceanographic & Atmospheric Administration Grant, for project on “California Fishery, Farm and Environmentally Vulnerable Community Responses to the 1997-98 ENSO Event,” 1999-2001 ($135,000).
MacArthur Foundation Research & Writing Grant, for project on “Minds at Peace? The Construction of U.S. Security Policy at Century's End,” 1998-99 ($35,000).
Fellow, MarkkulaCenter for Applied Ethics, Santa ClaraUniv., Seminar on “Civic Virtue,” 1997-98.
Harold & Margaret Sprout Award, Environmental Studies Section, International Studies Association, runner-up for Global Civil Society & Global Environmental Governance, 1997.
University of California Distinguished Wellness Lecturer, 1995.
Senior Fellow in International Environmental Policy, Monterey Institute of International Studies, Monterey, CA, Fall 1993.
PostDoctoral Fellow, University of California, Berkeley, MacArthur Interdisciplinary Group in International Security Studies, Spring 1988.
Visiting Research Fellow, Royal Institute of International Affairs, London, England, Joint Energy Programme, 19861987.
MacArthur/Social Science Research Council Dissertation Fellowship in International Peace & Security Studies, 1985-1987.
JOURNAL & OTHER ARTICLES (* indicates peer-reviewed article)
Ronnie D. Lipschutz, “Getting out of the CAR: DeCARbonization, climate change and sustainable society,” International Journal of Sustainable Society4, #4 (2012): 336-56.
Bacon, C.M., D. Mulvaney, T.B. Ball, E.M. DuPuis, S.R. Gliessman, R.D. Lipschutz & A. Shakouri (2011). “The Creation of an Integrated Sustainability Curriculum and Student Praxis Projects,” International Journal of Sustainability in Higher Education 12, #2 (2011): 193-208.
-----, “Foreword,” Globalizations 8, #4 (August 2011): 395-96, Special issue on “Disciplining Dissent,” Lara M. Coleman & Karen Tucker, eds.
-----, “What Comes after Liberalism? More Liberalism!” Millennium 38, #3 (2010): 545-51.
-----, “The Sustainability Debate: Déjà Vu All Over Again?” Global Environmental Politics 9, #4 (Nov. 2009): 136-41.
*-----, “Flies in Our Eyes: Man, the Economy and War,”Millennium 38, #2 (2009): 241-67.
*-----,“Imperial Warfare in the Naked City—Sociality as Critical Infrastructure,”International Political Sociology 3, #3 (Sept. 2008): 204-18.
*-----, “The Historical and Structural Origins of Global Civil Society,”Globalizations 4, #2 (June 2007): 304-08.
Paul Lubeck, Michael Watts, and Ronnie Lipschutz, “Convergent Interests: U.S. Energy Security and the “Securing” of Nigerian Democracy,” Center for International Policy, Feb. 2007.
-----, “’Soylent Green ... is ... PEOPLE!' Labour, Bodies and Capital in the Global Political Economy,”Millennium 34 (2006): 573-76.
*-----, “Power, Politics, and Global Civil Society,”Millennium 33, #3 (2005): 747-69.
*-----, “Imitations of Empire,”Global Environmental Politics 4, No. 2 (May 2004): 20-23.
*-----. “Sweating It Out: NGO Campaigns and Trade Union Empowerment,”Development in Practice 14, #1-2 (February 2004): 197-209.
-----, “The Clash of Governmentalities: The Fall of the UN Republic and America's Reach for Imperium,”Contemporary Security Policy 23, #2 (Dec. 2002): 214-31.
*-----,”Environmental History, Political Economy and Change: Frameworks and Tools for Research and Analysis”Global Environmental Politics 1, #3 (August 2001): 72-91.
-----, “Uma Agenda da Segurança para o Século XXI: Política Global na ‘Cidade Nua’” (“A Security Agenda for the 21st Century: Global Politics in the ‘NakedCity’”), Nação e Defesa 99 (Outono 2001): 189-220. (in English at:
*-----, “Why Is There No International Forestry Law?An Examination of International Forestry Regulation, both Public and Private,”UCLA Journal of Environmental Law & Policy 19 (2000/2001), #1:155-82.
*----, “Because People Matter: Theorizing Global Political Economy,”International Studies Perspectives 2 (2001):321-39.
*-----, “Ohmage to Resistance,”Global Environmental Politics 1, #1 (2001):18-22.
*-----, Crossing Borders: Global Civil Society and the Reconfiguration of Transnational Political Space,”Geojournal 52 (2000):17-23. (Published in 2001)
*-----, “Terror in the Suites--Narratives of Fear and the Political Economy of Danger,”Global Society 13, No.4, (October 1999): 411-39.
*-----, “Members Only? Citizenship and Civic Virtue in a Time of Globalization,”International Politics 36, #2 (June 1999):203-33.
*-----, “Beyond the Neoliberal Peace: From Conflict Resolution to Social Reconciliation,”Social Justice 25, #4 (Winter 1998):5-19.
-----, “Environmental Justice at Home and Abroad,”Georgetown Compass 6, #2 (Summer/Fall 1997):75-86.
-----, “The Great Transformation Revisited,”Brown Journal of Int’l Affairs 4, #1 (Winter/Spring 1997):299-318.
*-----, “From Place to Planet: Local Knowledge and Global Environmental Governance,”Global Governance 3, #1 (Jan.-Apr. 1997):83-102.
*Roger Coate, Chadwick Alger & -----, “The United Nations and Civil Society: Creative Partnerships for Sustainable Development, Alternatives 21, #1 (Jan.-Mar. 1996)93-122.
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*-----, “Reconstructing World Politics: The Emergence of Global Civil Society,”Millenium 21, #3 (Winter 1992): 389-420. (Published in revised form in: Jeremy Larkins & Rick Fawn, eds., International Society after the Cold War, London: Macmillan, 1996.)
-----, “Learn of the Green World: Global Environmental Change, Global Civil Society and Social Learning,”Transnational Associations 3 (1993):124-38.
*-----, “One World or Many? Global Sustainable Economic Development in the 21st Century,”Bulletin of Peace Proposals 22, #2 (June 1991):189-98.
*-----, “Wasn't the Future Wonderful? Resources, Environment, and the Emerging Myth of Global Sustainable Development,”Colorado Journal of International Environmental Law and Policy 2 (1991):35-54.
*-----, “Bargaining Among Nations: Culture, Values, & Perceptions in Regime Formation,” Evaluation Review 15, #1 (Feb. 1991):44-72.
BOOK, HANDBOOK & ENCYCLOPEDIA CHAPTERS
Ronnie D. Lipschutz, “The Sustainability Debate: Déja Vu All Over Again?” in: Peter Dauvergne (ed.), Handbook of Global Environmental Politics (Cheltenham, UK: Edward Elgar, 2012;second ed.).
-----, “The Day the Earth Stood Still,” in: Peter Wright (ed.), The Critical Companion to Science Fiction Film Adaptations (Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, forthcoming).
-----, “Fail Safe,” in: Peter Wright (ed.), The Critical Companion to Science Fiction Film Adaptations (Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, forthcoming).
----- & Felicia A. Peck, “Ecosystems, Economies, Earth(s): Linking Globalization to Environmental Change and Political Discourse,” William C. G. Burns and Joel Heinen (eds.), Handbook of Global Environmental Issues (Singapore: World Scientific Press, in press, 2012).
----- & Corina McKendry, “Social Movements and Global Civil Society,” John Dryzek, Richard Norgaard, and David Schlosberg (eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Climate Change and Society (Oxford: OxfordUniversity Press, 2011).
-----, “Global Civil Society,” Vol. 2, pp. 553-55, in: Mark Bevir (ed.), Encyclopedia of Political Theory (Thousand Oaks, Calif: Sage, 2010).
-----, “Globalization,” Vol. 2, pp. 555-58, in: Mark Bevir (ed.), Encyclopedia of Political Theory (Thousand Oaks, Calif: Sage, 2010).
----- & Felicia A. Peck, “Globalization and the Environment: There Must be Some Way Out of Here,” Robert Denemark (ed.), International Studies Encyclopedia (Oxford: Blackwell, 2010).
----- & Felicia A. Peck, “Climate Change, Globalization, and Carbonization,” pp. 182-204, in: Bryan S. Turner (ed.), The Routledge International Handbook of Globalization Studies (Abingdon, UK: Routledge, 2010).
-----, “Corporate Social Responsibility and the Problem of Human Rights: Who is Protecting Whom?” pp. 242-66, in: K. Ravi Raman & Ronnie d. Lipschutz (eds.), Corporate Social Responsibility--Comparative Critiques, (Houndsmill, Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2010).
Gabriela Kutting & -----, “Introduction: who knew and when did they know it?, pp. 1-10, Global Environmental Governance—Power and Knowledge in a Local-Global World(London, Routledge, 2009).
----- & Gabriela Kutting, “Conclusions: environmental governance, power and knowledge in a local-global world, pp. 206-16, Global Environmental Governance—Power and Knowledge in a Local-Global World(London: Routledge, 2009).
-----, “Capitalism’s Churn and Cultural Conflict: How Globalization has Fractured American Society and Why it will be Difficult to Put the Pieces Back Together,” pp. 3-24, in: Michelle Bertho (ed.), The Impact of Globalization on the United States—Culture and Society (Westport, Conn.: Praeger, 2008, vol 1).
------. “On the Transformational Potential of Global Civil Society,” pp. 225-43, in; Felix Berenskoetter and M.J. Williams (eds.), Power in World Politics (London: Routledge, 2007).
-----. “Capitalism, Conflict and Churn: How the American Culture War Went Global,”pp. 185-96, in: H. Anheier and Y.R. Isar (eds.), World Cultures Yearbook 2007: Cultures, Conflict and Globalization (London: Sage, 2007).
-----. “Introduction,” pp. xi-xxviii, in: Ronnie D. Lipschutz (ed.), Civil Societies and Social Movements: Domestic, Transnational, Global (Aldershot, Hampshire: Ashgate Publishing, 2006). Library of Essays in International Relations.
----- and Heather Turcotte, “Duct Tape or Plastic? The Political Economy of Threats and the Production of Fear,” pp. 25-46, in: Betsy Hartmann, Banu Subramaniam, and Charles Zerner (eds.), Making Threats—Biofears and Environmental Anxieties (Lanham, Md.: Rowman & Littlefield, 2005).
-----. “Networks of Knowledge and Practice: Global Civil Society and Global Communications,” pp. 17-33, in: Wilma de Jong, Martin Shaw, Neil Stammers (eds.), Global Activism, Global Media (London: Pluto Press, 2005).
-----. “Sweating It Out: NGO Campaigns and Trade Union Empowerment,” pp. 223-40, in: Deborah Eade and Alan Leather (eds.), Development NGOs and Labor Unions—Terms of Engagement (Bloomfield, Conn.: Kumarian Press, 2005).
-----. “Environmental regulation, certification, and corporate standards: A critique,” pp. 218-32, in Peter Dauvergne (ed.), Handbook of Global Environmental Politics (Cheltenham, UK: Edward Elgar, 2005).
-----. “Global Civil Society and Global Governmentality: Resistance, Reform or Resignation? pp. 171-85, in: G. Baker and D. Chandler (eds) Global Civil Society: Contested Futures (London: Routledge, 2005).
-----. “Globalisation and Global Governance in the Twenty-first Century: The Environment and Global Governance,” pp. 204-36, in J.N. Clarke and G.R. Edwards (eds.), Global Governance in the Twenty-First Century, (Basingstoke, UK: Palgrave Macmillan, 2004).
-----. “Global Civil Society and Global Governmentality: Or, the Search for Politics and the State amidst the Capillaries of Power,” pp. 229-48, in: Michael Barnett and Raymond Duvall (eds.), Power in Global Governance (Cambridge: CambridgeUniversity Press, 2005).
-----, “Global Civil Society and Global Environmental Protection: Private Initiatives and Public Goods,” pp. 45-70, in: Michael Hatch (ed.), Evaluating Alternative Policy Instruments for Environmental Protection (Albany, N.Y: SUNY Press, 2005).
-----, “Global civil society and Global Governmentality,” pp. 199-207, in: Marlies Glasius, David Lewis and Hakan Seckinelgin (eds.), Exploring Civil Society—Political and Cultural Contexts (London: Routledge, 2004).
-----, “Constituting Political Community: Globalization, Citizenship and Human Rights,” pp. 29-52, in: Alison Brysk and Gershon Shafir (eds.), People Out of Place—Globalization, Human Rights and the Citizenship Gap (New York: Routledge, 2004).
----- “Aliens, Alien Nations, and Alienation in American Political Economy and Popular Culture,” pp. 79-98, in: Jutta Weldes (ed.), To Seek Out New Worlds (London: Palgrave, 2003).
-----, “Theorizing Global Political Economy Because People Matter,” pp. 141-60, in: Mary Ann Tetreault and Robin Teske, eds., Feminist Approaches to Social Movements, Community and Power (Columbia, S.C.: University of South Carolina Press, 2003).
----- & Cathleen Fogel, “Regulation for the Rest of Us? Global Civil Society & the Privatization of Transnational Regulation,” pp. 115-40, in: pp. 115-40, in: Rodney Bruce Hall and Thomas J. Biersteker, eds., The Emergence of Private Authority in Global Governance (Cambridge: CambridgeUniversity Press, 2003).
-----, “Doing Well by Doing Good? Transnational Regulatory Campaigns, Social Activism, and Impacts on State Sovereignty,” pp. 291-320, in: John Montgomery and Nathan Glazer, eds., Challenges to Sovereignty: How Governments Respond (New Brunswick, NJ: Transaction, 2002).
-----, “Globalized Networks of Knowledge and Practice: Civil Society & Environmental Governance,” pp. 252-80, in: Ho-Won Jeong, ed., Global Environmental Policies: Institutions and Procedures (London: Palgrave, 2001).
-----, “(B)orders and (Dis)Orders: The Role of Moral Authority in Global Politics,” pp. 73-90, in: David Jacobsen, Mathias Albert & Yosef Lapid, eds., Identities, Borders and Order (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2001).
-----, “The State as Moral Authority in an Evolving Global Political Economy,” pp. 67-84, in: Jose V. Ciprut, ed., The Art of the Feud: Reconceptualizing International Relations (Westport, CT: Greenwood Publishing, 2000).
-----, “Politics Among People: Global Civil Society Reconsidered,” pp. 83-98, in: Heidi Hobbs, (ed.), Pondering Postinternationalism (Albany: SUNY Press, 2000).
-----, “From Local Knowledge and Practice to Global Environmental Governance,” pp. 259-83, in: Martin Hewson & Timothy J. Sinclair (eds.), Approaches to Global Governance Theory (Albany: SUNY Press, 1999).
-----, “Vom dem Schleier des Nichtwissens: Staaten, Ökologie und Zeirpolitik, “ pp. 63-85, in: Michael Filtner, Christoph Görg and Volker Heins (eds.), Konfliktfeld Natur—Biologische, Ressourcen und globale Politik (Opladen, Germany: Leske and Budrich, 1998).
-----, “Seeking a State of One's Own: An Analytical Framework for Assessing `Ethnic and Sectarian Conflict,” pp. 44-77, in: Beverly Crawford & Ronnie D. Lipschutz (eds.), The myth of “ethnic conflict” (Berkeley: Institute of International & Area Studies, UC-Berkeley, 1998).
-----, “From `Culture Wars' to Shooting Wars: Cultural Conflict in the United States,” pp. 394-433, in: Beverly Crawford & Ronnie D. Lipschutz (eds.), The myth of “ethnic conflict” (Berkeley: UC-Berkeley Institute of Area Studies Press, 1998).
-----, “The Nature of Sovereignty and the Sovereignty of Nature: Problematizing the Boundaries between Self, Society, State and System,” pp. 109-38, in: Karen D. Litfin (ed.), The Greening of Sovereignty in World Politics (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1998).