360 degree Activism and the Inside Activist in Politics

Abstract

Bureaucrats work in environments that is increasingly prone by dilemmas and urgent climate, environmental, equity and health challenges, as epitomized by the call to prompt the green transition, urging novel solutions. This session addresses the role that bureaucrats may have as activists in addressing these challenges, operating inside policy institutions, through exploring the persistent insider/outsider dilemma of activist policy actions that activists for green transitions face and adopt in different careers and positionalities, also assessing the rationale for activism, including along a collaboration-conflict axis. This session seeks original empirical accounts and theoretic studies, which scrutinize the characteristics and networks, the power and influence, and their impact on policies and novel approaches to address challenges linked to the green transition interdisciplinary, and brings together accounts from public policy, administration, civil society, business, and others.

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