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

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