Everyday Agri-Environmental Governance : : The Emergence of Sustainability Through Assemblage Thinking.

• Superior document: Routledge Focus on Environment and Sustainability Series
• Author: Forney, Jérémie.
• TeilnehmendeR: Bentia, Dana.; Dwiartama, Angga.
• Place / Publishing House: Oxford : : Taylor & Francis Group,, 2024.; ©2024.
• Year of Publication: 2024
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Series: Routledge Focus on Environment and Sustainability Series
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (159 pages)

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.

Table of Contents

Cover -- Half Title -- Series Information -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Preface and Acknowledgement -- 1 Everyday Agri-Environmental Governance and the Assemblage Perspective -- Introduction: the Messy Processes of Agri-Environmental Governance -- Exploring the Everyday Dimension of AEG -- Story 1: Nicolas, Navigating the Swiss AEG Assemblage -- Story 2: Novelina and Harbin, Telling Agents in the Soybean Assemblage -- Story 3: Fitri and the Messy Assemblage of Public Governance -- Everyday Governance as Framing -- Reframing Everyday Governance as an Assemblage -- Everyday Governance: From Instruments to Assemblages -- How We Use Case Studies in this Book -- Structure of the Book -- Notes -- References -- 2 Heterogeneous Governance Assemblages: Mapping the Cases -- Introduction: Instruments That Hold Things Together and the Importance of Relations -- IP-Suisse: a Certification Scheme to Empower Farmers? -- Donau Soja: a Network for Rethinking Soybeans? -- RPPLH: a Top-Down Instrument to Fix the Governance of the Environment? -- Beyond Isolated Instruments: Unfolding Wider Assemblages -- Lines of Flight and the Reterritorialisation of AEG Assemblages -- Path-dependent Processes and Lock-Ins -- Internal Tensions and Centralisation Forces -- Governance Assemblages as Multiplicities -- Multiplicity as Diversity of Reasons to Assemble -- Multiplicity as Diversity of Imaginaries -- Multiplicity as a Messy Process -- Concluding Remarks: Assemblages Highlighting the Complex Dynamics of Governance -- Note -- References -- 3 Unpredictability of Effects in Agri-Environmental Governance -- Introduction: the Unpredictable Nature of Governance -- A Productive Failure Emerging From the Unpredictable Assemblage Effect -- Messy Assemblages That Paved the Way for a Failed Governance -- The Unintended Effect of a Productive Failure.

The Multiplicity of Intended and Unintended Processes -- Unintended But Desirable Outcomes of IP-Suisse -- The Unwanted Side of IP-Suisse -- Those Who Ride the Unpredictability of Governance Practices -- Materiality and Socio-Technical Devices -- The Logics of Change and Unexpected Realignments -- Concluding Remarks: Breaking With Failure and Success -- Notes -- References -- 4 Power, Agency, and Desire in Everyday Governance -- Introduction: of Power, Agency, and Desire -- Power -- Agency: Individual, Distributive, and Collective -- Desires -- Building Power and Agency Through Alliances and Interdependencies -- Encounters of Power and Ephemeral Assemblages -- When Agency Rules: Collective Enactments of Desire and Transnational Spaces -- Concluding Remarks: Opening to the Dynamics of the Assemblage -- References -- 5 Reframing Change in Governance Assemblages: Properties, Capacities, and Basins of Attraction -- Introduction: What Change Is and Is Not -- Reassembling Change and Transformation -- Properties, Capacities, and Attractors: Paths of Change -- Small Changes and the Generation of Attractors -- The Emergence of a Protein Transition as a New Powerful Attractor -- Transformative Pathways and the Spectrum of Possibilities -- Concluding Remarks: a Radical Understanding of Change -- Notes -- References -- 6 Governing Emergence Towards the Transformation of Agri-Food Assemblages -- Introduction: From Reflexive Governance to Governance of Emergence -- The Unruly Consequences of Governance and the Call for Reflexive Governance -- The Limitations of Reflexivity and the Need to Embrace Emergences -- Redistributing Responsibilities -- Prioritising Processual and Relational Objectives and Outcomes -- Creating Reflexive and Processual Methods for Monitoring Change -- Targeting Attractors to Influence Spaces of Possibility.

Conclusion: a Governance of Emergence as a New Attractor for AEG -- References -- Index.