Understanding process, power, and meaning in adaptive governance: a critical institutional reading
Understanding process, power, and meaning in adaptive governance: a critical institutional reading
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DOI：
10.5751/es-10212-230249
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发表时间：
2018-01-01
影响因子：
4.1
通讯作者：
Whaley, Luke
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作者：
Cleaver, Frances;Whaley, Luke
适应性治理继续引起学术界和政策界的极大兴趣。这是有充分理由的，因为它在一个全球化和不断变化的世界中越来越重要。与此同时，适应性治理是越来越多的批判文献的主题，这些文献关注它将社会世界理论化的方式。在本文中，我们回应这些批评，我们认为广泛的过程中，权力和意义的环境和自然资源治理的尺寸。我们认为，适应性治理理论将受益于建设性地与批判制度主义，一个学校的思想，如适应性治理，有一只脚在公地奖学金。批判制度主义认为制度变迁是一个拼凑的过程，在这个过程中，参与者将手头的资源拼凑成新的安排。这种方法强调了结构和机构的相互作用，并阐明了新的治理安排是如何形成的，以及如何在与更广泛的社会和文化景观的动态关系中被视为自然的。我们认为，这些安排往往反映主导权力关系，而社会生活的多元性也提供了适应和变革的范围。
Adaptive governance continues to attract considerable interest in academic and policy circles. This is with good reason, given its increasing relevance in a globalized and changing world. At the same time, adaptive governance is the subject of a growing body of critical literature concerned with the ways in which it theorizes the social world. In this paper, we respond to these critiques, which we see as broadly concerning the process, power, and meaning dimensions of environmental and natural resource governance. We argue that adaptive governance theory would benefit from engaging constructively with critical institutionalism, a school of thought that, like adaptive governance, has one foot in commons scholarship. Critical institutionalism conceives of institutional change as a process of bricolage, where those involved piece together new arrangements from the resources to hand. This approach highlights the interplay of structure and agency, and illuminates how new governance arrangements form and come to be seen as natural in dynamic relation to the wider social and cultural landscape. We consider how these arrangements tend to reflect dominant power relations, whilst the plural nature of social life also provides scope for adaptation and transformative change.