Takumi Shibaike

Takumi Shibaike

Assistant Professor of Political Science (He/Him)

Research

My research focuses on the role of civil society activism in global environmental governance. I am especially interested in the role of small NGOs in the governance of biodiversity and climate change. Please feel free to contact me if you have any questions or comments on my work.

Replicaton files are available on my GitHub.

Acronyms: NGO (nongovernmental organization), INGO (international nongovernmental organization), UNFCCC (United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change), TSMO (transnational social mobilization organization), COP (Conference of the Parties), RFMO (regional fisheries management organization)

Books

  1. Who tells your story? Women and indigenous peoples advocacy at the UNFCCC. Cambridge University Press (Elements in organizational respones to climate change), forthcoming. (with Bi Zhao).

  2. Media and National Defense in Canada (eds.). UBC Press, under contract. (with Jean-Christophe Boucher and Alexandra Richards).

Refereed Articles

  1. “Local backlash against INGOs? How heterogeneous interests condition the effects of conservation advocacy campaigns.” The Journal of Politics (forthcoming). doi.org/10.1086/732968.

  2. “The power of specialization: NGO advocacy in global conservation governance.” International Studies Quarterly 67.2 (2023): sqad023. doi.org/10.1177/08997640221085731.

  3. “Understanding national nonprofit data environments.” Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly 52.2 (2023): 281–303. (with Elizabeth A. Bloodgood, Michael Lenczner, Jesse Bourns, Jenny Tabet, Amy Melvin, and Wendy H. Wong). doi.org/10.1177/08997640221085731.

  4. “The stories they tell: What INGO mission statements reveal about their authority.” Global Society 37.1 (2023): 23–50. (with Wendy H. Wong, Sarah S. Stroup, and Alfred Oduro). doi.org/10.1080/13600826.2021.1970516.

  5. “Overcoming the laws-in-translation problem: Comparing techniques for translating legal texts.” Qualitative and Multi-Method Research 20.2 (2022): 13–21. (with Anthony J. DeMattee, Nick Gertler, and Elizabeth A. Bloodgood). doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7140081.

  6. “Legitimacy and legitimation practices: An analysis of TSMO networks.” Complexity, Governance & Networks 8.1 (2022): 1–24. doi.org/10.20377/cgn-114.

  7. “Small NGOs and agenda-setting in global conservation governance: The case of pangolin conservation.” Global Environmental Politics 22.2 (2022): 45–69. doi.org/10.1162/glep_a_00623.

Working Papers

  1. “Emotions and climate justice in social media posts during UNFCCC COPs.”

  2. “Understanding agenda-setting and outcomes in tuna RFMOs: A machine-learning approach.” (with Laurenne Schiller and Graeme Auld).

  3. “Framing climate justice at UNFCCC COP Side Events.” (with Bi Zhao).

  4. “The ‘inclusion’ of civil society in the Organisation of African Unity.” (with Alfred Oduro).

  5. “The analysis of Canadian media coverage on military procurement (2001-2019).” (with Jean-Christophe Boucher).

  6. “Conservation governance: Complex relationship between the governor and the governed.” (with Graeme Auld).