Everyday Agri-Environmental Governance : : The Emergence of Sustainability Through Assemblage Thinking / / Jérémie Forney, Dana Bentia, and Angga Dwiartama.
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.
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| Superior document: | Routledge Focus on Environment and Sustainability Series |
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| Place / Publishing House: | London ; New York : : Routledge,, [2025] ©2025 |
| Year of Publication: | 2025 |
| Edition: | First edition. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Routledge focus on environment and sustainability.
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (159 pages) |
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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.