The Difference Genealogy Makes: Strategies for Politicisation or How to Extend Capacities for Autonomy

Jenkins, Laura

doi:10.1111/j.1467-9248.2010.00844.x

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“…Embedded pro-market ideas have, in practice, served to negate other sets of ideas about how to govern and stand in contrast to conceptions of politics as the capacity for collective agency and choice underpinned by open and informed deliberation and social interaction (Hay 2007, 65-70; see also Gamble 2000;Jenkins 2011). …”

Section: Depoliticisation and Uk Energy Governancementioning

confidence: 96%

Energy Depoliticisation in the UK: Destroying Political Capacity

Kuzemko

2015

The British Journal of Politics and International Relations

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Provides new insights into depoliticisation literatures by applying depoliticisation beyond economic and monetary policy to energy and climate change policy. • Demonstrates ways in which forms of depoliticisation can affect political capacity to respond to new policy challenges. • Challenges climate change and energy transition literatures by explaining how and why UK energy policy institutions have constrained innovation and sustainable change. Depoliticisation, as a concept, has been utilised to explain specific aspects of economic governance as it has developed over the past thirty years, particularly in certain OECD countries. This article focuses on the outcomes of three forms of depoliticisation, marketised, technocratic and nondeliberative, for political capacity. Political capacity is defined in relation to a notion of politics as social interaction, deliberation, choice and agency. Using UK energy governance as a case study it claims that the depoliticisation of energy policy has resulted in embedded corporate power, a widening disjuncture between experts and majoritarian institutions and limited knowledge structures. As a result the state's role is still confined to giver of market signals and to temporary interventions in the face of complex and unprecedented commitments to transition the UK towards a low carbon future.

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Section: Depoliticisation and Uk Energy Governancementioning

confidence: 96%

Energy Depoliticisation in the UK: Destroying Political Capacity

Kuzemko

2015

The British Journal of Politics and International Relations

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“…This article uses the theoretical perspective of ‘(de)politicization’ (Gamble ; Hay ; Jenkins ; Beveridge and Naumann ; Wood and Flinders ) to analyse how policy‐makers deal with public conflict over policy plans and the concomitant effects on the policy‐making process. The question of how policy‐makers deal with conflict is explored through an in‐depth analysis of the policy process surrounding the contested multibillion‐euro ‘Oosterweelconnection’ highway in Antwerp (Belgium).…”

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Conflict reconsidered: The boomerang effect of depoliticization in the policy process

Wolf

Dooren

2018

Public Administration

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This article argues that the efforts of policy‐makers to avoid conflict in the short run can be counterproductive in the long run. Not only may policy‐makers fail to reap the benefits of conflicts when they try to steer clear, but conflict may actually increase rather than diminish. We study conflict through the conceptual lens of (de)politicization in the lengthy and highly contested policy‐making process over the multibillion‐euro ‘Oosterweelconnection’ highway in Antwerp (Belgium). An in‐depth media analysis of 739 articles is combined with data from 32 narrative interviews. We conclude that efforts to end public debate through depoliticization can have a boomerang effect, in which conflict disappears only temporarily, and that these efforts can ultimately increase conflict while wasting engagement and creativity. More attention to the productive aspects of conflict is needed in public administration literature and practice.

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“…Rather than the everyday as a site however, the everyday is therefore equated with a particular type of powerless actor. This powerless or everyday actor, in turn, reflects a particular and rather narrow vision of what politics entails (on which, see Hay, 2007;Jenkins, 2010), as well as a particular notion of agency in world politics. This conception of the everyday actor only makes sense when politics (and agency) is equated with governments, states, and the intentional efforts to influence them (or, in IR, the top-down regulation of the international system by powerful states and international organizations).…”

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Introduction: Everyday narratives in world politics

Stanley

Jackson

2016

Politics

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Political science and international relations scholarship increasingly places substantive emphasis on, to put it broadly, the power of discourse in shaping world politics. This special issue develops a research agenda that seeks to consolidate a set of data collection and analysis strategies that can be used in studying the way in which elite-driven discourses are legitimated and challenged; in other words, an agenda for studying everyday narratives in world politics. In doing so, the special issue makes a threefold contribution: it analyses how key themes with world politics are reproduced and narrated; it demonstrates the need to go beyond 'methodological elitism' in understanding narratives, legitimacy and world politics;and it highlights some of the methodological and practical issues in researching everyday narratives. In this introductory article, we situate the special issue within a critique of constructivist methodology broadly conceived, conceptualise everyday sites of politics, and finally, provide an overview of the articles in the issue.

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The Difference Genealogy Makes: Strategies for Politicisation or How to Extend Capacities for Autonomy

Cited by 67 publications

References 33 publications

Energy Depoliticisation in the UK: Destroying Political Capacity

Energy Depoliticisation in the UK: Destroying Political Capacity

Conflict reconsidered: The boomerang effect of depoliticization in the policy process

Introduction: Everyday narratives in world politics

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