Darina Petrova defended her thesis

On 30 January 2023, Darina Petrova defended her PhD thesis, entitled "From the Rich Countries Club to the End of the Land: Green Worldmaking in Five Acts" and written under supervision of Professors Jean d’Aspremont and Martti Koskenniemi, before a jury composed of Professors Helena Alviar García, Régis Bismuth, Jorge L. Esquirol, Christine J. Walley and Fuad Zarbiyev.

The thesis uses the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) as an observational platform to look at what arguments, tools and mechanisms were employed along the steps of creating legal arrangements that defined and enforced "greenness" in the global governance. Using worldmaking approach and drawing on the critical legal studies, science and technology studies (STS) and anthropology, this thesis addresses the research question – what and whose green? - through five separate but interconnected stories, presented as Acts. Each Act looks at the research question from a different angle, with the first four Acts focusing on the OECD and the last Act on the Yamal Peninsula in the Russian Arctic. Through this methodology, the thesis examines the knowledge-making practices and cause and effect narratives in the green governance, the distributional and material aspects of the green trajectory as well as the use of greenness in the boundary-making in the global governance.