Absolving the sins of emission: The politics of regulating agricultural greenhouse gas emissions in New Zealand

Changing the record: Narrative policy analysis and the politics of emissions trading in New Zealand

“…The difficulties of challenging established narratives equally draws attention to exploring how incremental narrative shifts and "bridging" narratives might lessen polarisation, especially where governing institutions already acknowledge gaps between policy rhetoric and reality (Howlett, 2014). One reason for the agricultural sector's reluctance to include biogenic emissions in the ETS was that the government's preference for processor-level obligations inhibited individual farms from benefitting from farm-level initiatives to control emissions or convert land-uses (Cooper & Rosin, 2014). Relaxing this requirement, by providing grants for verified types of abatement or offset schemes, might enhance the sector's contribution to mitigation while remaining con-…”

“…Another subsidiary aspect of the GEN mentioned by interviewees for managing administrative costs was a preference for streamlined regulation, including self-reporting of emissions with the threat of audit (similar to the New Zealand tax system) and placing the point of obligation as far upstream in the supply chain as possible so that most businesses are not required to participate directly in the ETS (Leining & Kerr, 2018). "Villain and victim" arguments expressed by GEN supporters often focused on discrimination against rural communities, reemphasising farmers' exposure to higher production costs from pricing of biological emissions (Cooper & Rosin, 2014) and competitive risks to emissionsintensive, trade-exposed industries. One agricultural interviewee added "why should we be taxed before anybody else acts and if we don't have meaningful alternatives.…”

Repeasantisation in The United States

“…; Cooper and Rosin ) examines how farmers face social influence when adopting certain farming practices due to their embeddedness in networks of knowledge and audit systems. Cooper and Rosin (, p. 396) emphasise that ascribing intentions to a category of farmer can be potentially misleading when they point out the ambivalence of organic farmers to environmental regulation. In order to demonstrate how some farmers attempt to, or do, overcome their epistemic blindness through practice, we employ Van der Ploeg's () idea of repesantisatisation and Sousa's (2007) theory of emergences.…”

Tiny trees for trendy produce: Dwarfing technologies as assemblage actors in orchard economies

“…Some form of agency can be attributed to the things rather than simply extending the agency of the designer or implementer. By implication, while assembling may be performed with a particular political agenda under a set of economic relations, the productive capacities of materials can transform the politics and relations of the project (Tsing 2005, Lockie andHiggins 2007;Braun 2006;Cooper and Rosin 2014). While agricultural technologies may support the emergence of a corporate-environmental food regime and neoliberalism more broadly, they may also have practical outcomes that complicate these trends and reflect on what may be -beyond neoliberalism‖ (Bakker 2010).…”