Buch, Englisch, 158 Seiten, Format (B × H): 145 mm x 222 mm, Gewicht: 341 g
The Emergence of Sustainability through Assemblage Thinking
Buch, Englisch, 158 Seiten, Format (B × H): 145 mm x 222 mm, Gewicht: 341 g
Reihe: Routledge Focus on Environment and Sustainability
ISBN: 978-1-032-22132-8
Verlag: Routledge
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 agri-food 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.
The Open Access version of this book, available at www.taylorfrancis.com, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution- Non Commercial- No Derivatives (CC- BY- NC- ND) 4.0 license.
Zielgruppe
Postgraduate, Professional, and Undergraduate Advanced
Autoren/Hrsg.
Fachgebiete
- Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften Interdisziplinär Ökotrophologie (Ernährungs- und Haushaltswissenschaften)
- Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein Politische Studien zu einzelnen Ländern und Gebieten
- Geowissenschaften Geographie | Raumplanung Geographie: Sachbuch, Reise
- Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Sachkultur, Materielle Kultur
- Naturwissenschaften Biowissenschaften Biowissenschaften Ökologie
- Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Regierungspolitik
- Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaft und Gesellschaft | Kulturwissenschaften Kulturwissenschaften: Ernährung & Gesellschaft
- Wirtschaftswissenschaften Wirtschaftssektoren & Branchen Primärer Sektor Agrarökonomie, Ernährungswirtschaft
- Naturwissenschaften Biowissenschaften Biowissenschaften Biowissenschaften, Biologie: Sachbuch, Naturführer
Weitere Infos & Material
Chapter 1: Everyday agri-environmental governance and the assemblage perspective
Chapter 2: Heterogeneous 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
