Bricolage Practices in Local Forestry

Koning, Jessica de; Benneker, Charlotte

doi:10.1007/978-94-007-5113-2_3

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“…It therefore serves as a fitting framework to interpret our case‐study CBOs' attempts to create lasting change in their respective communities and landscapes. The CBOs under study here used diverse practices of bricolage (de Koning and Benneker, ) to implement linked conservation and rural development projects and to garner recognition from diverse audiences for their accomplishments. Over time, they leveraged this recognition to access diverse networks at multiple scales and used their positions and alliances within these networks to translate community sentiments and capitalize upon new openings for practical implementation.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Practical authority is not necessarily created by state actors, and as a concept is particularly well suited to understanding the activities of non‐state actors – including relatively small, resource‐limited actors such as those typically involved in CBNRM implementation. It represents a ‘bottom up’ form of authority constructed through diverse processes of bricolage (de Koning and Benneker, ; Cleaver, ) that may include framing, coalition building, the use of strategic alliances, working at multiple scales and accessing resources in order to put ideas into practice. The creative and pragmatic nature of the concept thus has close affinities with concepts of critical institutionalism (de Koning and Cleaver, ), the concept of ‘creative syncretism’ of Berk and Galvan (), and processes of micro‐institutionalization (Moseley and Charnley, ).…”

Section: Practical Authority and Networkmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Building Practical Authority for Community Forestry in and through Networks: The role of community‐based organisations in the U.S. West

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Policy and economic changes in the late 20th century fundamentally reorganized the governance of public forestlands in the US West, throwing longstanding rural development trajectories into disarray. Place‐based NGOs emerged across the West in the wake of this transformation to help rural communities gain access to the benefits of new restoration‐oriented management paradigms. Here we analyse the practical efforts of two of these community‐based organizations, Wallowa Resources and the Watershed Research and Training Center, as they attempt to implement community forestry practices in highly complex institutional environments. We focus on the ways in which these organizations access and utilize social networks at multiple scales in order to build the ‘practical authority’ necessary to lead institutional change efforts in and on behalf of rural communities. We consider both the strategic advantages and the practical challenges of working in multiple forums at multiple scales in pursuit of linked community and environmental benefits. Copyright © 2017 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd and ERP Environment

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Section: Practical Authority and Networkmentioning

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Building Practical Authority for Community Forestry in and through Networks: The role of community‐based organisations in the U.S. West

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“…This power is largely dependent on the number, and power, of authoritative resources which are allocated to, and mobilised by, the actor. These authoritative resources can take various forms: they can be financial power, or power through access to political or kinship networks (Cleaver 2002: 16–17; de Koning 2011: 227–8).…”

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confidence: 99%

Everything changes to remain the same? State and tax reform in South Sudan

Twijnstra

Titeca

2016

J. Mod. Afr. Stud.

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South Sudan is in a unique combination of (post)-conflict reconstruction and the birth of a new state in which old policies are re-activated and new policies introduced. By looking at three case-studies of taxation and private sector regulation reforms, the paper will show how the overlapping and often contradictory regulatory frameworks of the state provide the setting for bricolage strategies by different actors. These actors, and particularly state officials, rely on a variety of institutional resources to implement, resist or remake certain regulatory measures. Although the breadth of regulatory measures has increased exponentially, the institutional corridor – the space in which bricolage is performed and on which various actors can rely – remains narrow. This space is contingent on wartime authority structures, and more particularly pre-existing Sudan's People Liberation Army/Movement (SPLA/M) power structures, as well as a deep-rooted resistance to centralised control. Importantly, these regulatory practices are not fixed: intense periods of rearrangement of the social order or ‘open moments’ may provide a window of opportunity for regulatory reform.

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“…They do so, first, by legitimizing institutions in their daily practices, and second, by adapting institutions according to their social values and beliefs (Agrawal 2007;Cleaver 2012). Our results particularly highlight the importance of local social arrangements amongst various groups of local actors (De Koning and Benneker 2013). Increasing levels of acceptance of newly introduced institutions in bricolage processes were generally seen to follow from increased interactions between a variety of local actors, including technicians, jobbers, industries, communities, and so on.…”

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confidence: 58%

“…It therefore focuses on the role of so-called 'bricoleurs': actors who reshape, refashion, and recombine rules, norms, and beliefs through local bricolage practices to match those with their needs and interests. Critical institutionalism exhibits a much more open attitude than the older institutionalisms towards social and ecological factors and mechanisms to explain governance outcomes, besides purely institutional outcomes (De Koning and Benneker 2013;Ostrom 2009). The more open attitude matches this thesis very well because it focuses on such factors and mechanisms (such as social networks in the global-local nexus and the social-ecological setting in Caatinga biome).…”

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The global-local nexus and sustainable forest management: institutional translations in Brazil and Caatinga biome

Faggin

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chose to focus my research on Caatinga biome, in Brazil. Having worked with so many broad themes involving rural and local development linked to forests in Brazil, one is expected to focus on the Amazon region, the most 'famous' tropical forest spot in the planet. However, working in a national context I discovered other 'tropical forest' biomes that receive much less attention, such as Cerrado and Caatinga. In Caatinga I had the opportunity to meet three important keyactors while I was working in the Brazilian Forest Service, and they showed me a completely new and different world, they are Maria Auxiliadora Gariglio (Dôra), Newton Barcellos (in memoriam), and Frans Pareyn. Their passion for forest and people in Caatinga certainly was one of the main reasons that made me focus my research on sustainable forest management there. I would also like to thank all the people I have met before and during this research and that fight for a better use of forest resources in Brazil and Caatinga, and all the interviewed people including politicians, civil society representatives, technicians, industrials, and local communities. Their voices are a background of each word of this thesis. I also need to be thankful for the support of a lot of people that were far away during the last years giving me special support! I am thankful to my grandparents, especially to Nonna Sandra who taught me through her life path the importance of always being open to see reality through a different lens! My parents, Faggin and Betta, for giving me the possibility to be part of this world! My second and third mother, Teté and Bárbara, for choosing me as their 'step' daughter! My brother and sisters, Caio, Dora, and Marina for always being on my side and for sharing the difficult and pleasurable processes of growing up together! Thanks also for my nephews for being so kind with this beautiful and marvellous aunt! (Teo can explain this English expression to you, Maria, Janaina, Antonio, and 'to be born' João!). To my friends, my chosen family, thanks for supporting me on my different lifetime challenges: Nik, Bel, Ana Clara, Nina, Daninha, Iglu (in memoriam), Kibons, Bianca, Tosta, Moves, Nicole, Laurita, and Sandréx, and to all their partners, sons, and daughters for taking care of them! Without you, life would be much less interesting! A special thanks to Sandra and Laura, for being on my side all these years and for sharing the challenges of living with a PhD in the room! Thanks also to Alex for the discussions and beers in and outside our shared office. Thanks also to Carla for the support and friendship during these years and for all the new Portuguese words learned. Olivier, Hugo, Murat, Charlie, and Lucian thanks for taking care of these important friends. Thanks also to Lorenzo, Vicky, and Luna for feeding me in between the stress of writing and for the peaceful affirmation: you are going to make it! Thanks also to Ana and Nico for the trips and briscolas around the most beautiful places in the Mediterranean. I am also thankful for having...

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Bricolage Practices in Local Forestry

Cited by 14 publications

References 21 publications

Building Practical Authority for Community Forestry in and through Networks: The role of community‐based organisations in the U.S. West

Building Practical Authority for Community Forestry in and through Networks: The role of community‐based organisations in the U.S. West

Everything changes to remain the same? State and tax reform in South Sudan

The global-local nexus and sustainable forest management: institutional translations in Brazil and Caatinga biome

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