Power faces in regional governance☆

Landscape governance through partnerships: lessons from Amboseli, Kenya

“…Moreover, in governance and partnerships literature, power has often been neglected as a useful concept in analysing and understanding landscape governance processes. Governance and partnerships tend to be presented as depoliticised and consensual policy-making by interdependent actors in power-free processes (Kuindersma et al, 2012).…”

Bonding by doing : the dynamics of self-organizing groups of citizens taking charge of their living environment

“…Moreover, governance is understood as continuously shifting networks of both governmental and non-governmental agents and the embedded technologies of power/knowledge (Foucault, 1994(Foucault, , 2003. A considerable amount of the literature on power and governance processes and participation is about controlling or side lining power (Aarts & Leeuwis, 2010;Kuindersma, Arts, & Van der Zouwen, 2012). Following Foucault (1998), we see power as contingent and relational, as something that is exercised, not as something one possesses.…”

Killing nature to save it? : an analysis of two sport hunting policy arrangements in Uganda

“…Resource distribution is crucial in policy formation as it determines who has the (political) power to exert influence (Schmidt, 2010;Wiering & Arts, 2006), and the ability of actors to form (discourse) coalitions. These coalitions usually mobilise resources or assets through interactions or relations in order to achieve certain outcomes in social systems (Arts & Buizer, 2009;Kuindersma et al, 2012), either through deliberations or (sometimes) through manipulation. Hence, resources are 'intrinsically linked to the concept of power' (Arts & van Tatenhove, 2004: 343).…”

“…Resources are assets such as authority, knowledge, finances, land and legitimacy, mobilized by policy actors (Wiering & Arts, 2006), and are 'intrinsically linked to the concept of power' (Arts & Van Tatenhove, 2004: 343). Although power remains a contested concept (Kuindersma et al, 2012), we consider it to be a relational concept: the ability of actors to mobilize resources to achieve or influence outcomes within a policy domain (Giddens, 1984) through deliberation or even coercion. We used these four dimensions of the policy arrangement approach to analyse the change over time of the content and organization of the two sport hunting policy arrangements.…”