Buch, Englisch, 144 Seiten, Format (B × H): 138 mm x 216 mm
The Emergence of Sustainability through Assemblage Thinking
Buch, Englisch, 144 Seiten, Format (B × H): 138 mm x 216 mm
Reihe: Routledge Focus on Environment and Sustainability
ISBN: 978-1-032-22133-5
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd
Revitalising the way the social sciences question agri-environmental governance, this book introduces ‘the everyday governance approach’ as a means to improving the sustainability of agriculture and food systems.
The everyday refers to localised practices, specific networks and practical norms that emerge in a process of interaction, translation and reinterpretation. The authors build this approach on assemblage thinking and theory, which focuses on the collective production of the social through complex sets of connections. For this reason, assemblage thinking becomes a particularly productive guide in exploring how everyday governance is co-produced in the interaction between numerous social processes involving a diversity of actors and instruments. The authors navigate between original and contrasting case studies from Switzerland, Indonesia and the European Union in order to reorient attention to the transformative nature of governance, which they locate along four different dimensions of the everyday: (1) the interdependence of instruments within a wider governance assemblage; (2) the uncertainty and unpredictability of effects in agri-environmental governance; (3) the distributed nature of agency and its implication for power relations; (4) the importance of capacities in the transformation of agrifood systems. This book calls for a redesigning of agri-environmental governance that should move away from the setting of fix and precise objectives and solutions, and rather aim for a consolidation of sound foundations on which desirable futures can emerge.
The book will be an essential read for students and scholars interested in sustainable agriculture and food systems, governance modes and approaches and sustainability more broadly.
Zielgruppe
Postgraduate, Professional, and Undergraduate Advanced
Autoren/Hrsg.
Weitere Infos & Material
Chapter 1: Everyday agri-environmental governance and the assemblage perspective
Chapter 2: Heterogenous governance assemblages: mapping the cases
Chapter 3: Unpredictability of effects in agri-environmental governance
Chapter 4: Power, agency, and desire in everyday governance
Chapter 5: Reframing change in governance assemblages: properties, capacities, and basins of attraction
Chapter 6: Governing emergence towards the transformation of agri-food assemblages
