Co‐optation in co‐production: Maintaining credibility and legitimacy in transboundary environmental governance in East Asia
Co‐optation in co‐production: Maintaining credibility and legitimacy in transboundary environmental governance in East Asia
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联合生产中的合作选择：维护东亚跨境环境治理的可信度和合法性
DOI：
10.1111/ropr.12497
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发表时间：
2022
影响因子：
2.1
通讯作者：
Otsuka Kenji
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作者：
Ishikawa;M. and Ming Li;Otsuka Kenji
本文对东亚地区环境治理的主流论述提出了挑战，强调了学者和其他专家在跨境知识和行动的合作生产中通过国家权威进行合作的风险。通过对相关事件的参与性观察、组织研讨会和进行访谈收集第一手资料，该研究确定了环境可持续性问题各个领域的15个跨境合作网络，以及包括学者和从业者在内的25个非国家行为者的参与。使用比较民族志方法来解释他们在跨界合作生产后台的细微感受，研究发现了几种边界管理策略，以保持可信度和合法性，并与包括公共和私人行为者在内的广泛合作伙伴继续参与跨界合作生产。非国家行为体必须谨慎从事跨境合作生产，同时不消除任何现有的区域治理合法性。从这个意义上说，非国家行为体采用一种临时的边界管理策略，以确定围绕其倡议和自身合法性的偶然情况，并保持其可信度，以避免合作。
This article challenges the prevailing discourse on regional environmental governance in East Asia, emphasizing the risk of co‐optation among scholars and other experts through state authority in the transboundary co‐production of knowledge and action. By collecting first‐hand materials through the participatory observation of related events, organizing workshops, and conducting interviews, the research identified 15 transboundary cooperative networks in various fields of environmental sustainability issues and the involvement of 25 nonstate actors, including academics and practitioners. Using a comparative ethnographic approach for interpreting a nuanced sense of their experiences at the backstage of transboundary co‐production, the study found several strategies for boundary management to maintain credibility and legitimacy and to remain involved in transboundary co‐production with broad partners, including public and private actors. The nonstate actors have to be careful to engage in transboundary co‐production without eliminating any existing legitimacy of regional governance. In this sense, nonstate actors employ an ad‐hoc strategy of boundary management in determining a contingent situation surrounding the legitimacy of their initiatives and themselves and maintain their credibility to avoid co‐optation.