1st Edition

Agri-environmental Governance as an Assemblage Multiplicity, Power, and Transformation

Edited By Jérémie Forney, Chris Rosin, Hugh Campbell Copyright 2018
246 Pages 21 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

246 Pages 21 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

246 Pages 21 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

In recent decades, the governance of the environment in agri-food systems has emerged as a crucial challenge. A multiplicity of actors have been enrolled in this process, with the private sector and civil society progressively becoming key components in a global context often described as neoliberalization. Agri-environmental governance (AEG) thus gathers a highly complex assemblage of actors and... Read more
  1. Introduction: agri-environmental governance as assemblage
    Jérémie Forney, Chris Rosin and Hugh Campbell
  2. Part I: Assembling ontologies: multiplicities and agencies

  3. Assembling payments for ecosystem services in Wales
    Sophie Wynne-Jones and Thomas Vetter
  4. Carolina dreamin’: a case for understanding farmers’ decision-making and hybrid agri-environmental governance initiatives as complex assemblages
    Caela O’Connell and Deanna L. Osmond
  5. Killing two (or more) birds with one stone: the case of governance through multifunctionality payments in Japan
    Haruhiko Iba and Kiyohiko Sakamoto
  6. Assembling halloumi: contesting the EU’s food quality label policy in the Republic of Cyprus
    Gisela Welz
  7. From ‘disciplinary societies’ to ‘societies of control’: an historical narrative of agri-environmental governance in Indonesia
    Angga Dwiartama
  8. Part II: The politics of territorialisation

  9. Assembling value in carbon forestry: practices of assemblage, overflows and counter-performativities in Ugandan carbon forestry
    Adrian Nel
  10. Not defined by the numbers: distinction, dissent and democratic possibilities in debating the data
    Karly Burch, Katharine Legun, and Hugh Campbell
  11. Media, decentralization, and assemblage responses to water quality deterioration in Uruguay
    Diego Thompson
  12. The "dirty dairying" campaign in New Zealand: constructing problems and assembling responses
    Ismaël Tall and Hugh Campbell
  13. Beyond soyisation – Donau Soja as assemblage
    Dana Bentia and Jérémie Forney
  14. Part III: Assemblage for building new AEG practices

  15. The politics of big data: corporate agri-food governance meets "weak" resistance
    Michael Carolan
  16. Assemblage and the epistemology of practice: imagining situated water governance
    Ruth Beilin

Biography

Jérémie Forney is Assistant Professor, Anthropology Institute, University of Neuchâtel, Switzerland.

Chris Rosin is Senior Lecturer in the Department of Tourism, Sport and Society, Lincoln University, New Zealand.

Hugh Campbell is Chair in Sociology, Department of Sociology, Gender and Social Work, University of Otago, New Zealand.