Co‐Optation

Coy, Patrick G.

doi:10.1002/9780470674871.wbespm054

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“…Engagement should be a two-way process, with the tenant and landlord working together. However, if landlords are the more powerful shapers of the 'local law' set by the lease, the nature of the power structure may suggest 'cooptation' (the formalized inclusion of challengers into the authority system that they are challenging (Coy, 2013)) rather than a more equitable consensus-driven process of 'cooperation' and engagement.…”

Section: Who Adopts and Uses Green Leases?mentioning

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The evolution of green leases: towards inter-organizational environmental governance

Janda

Bright

Patrick

et al. 2016

Building Research & Information

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The evolution of green leases: towards inter-organizational environmental governance

Janda

Bright

Patrick

et al. 2016

Building Research & Information

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“…Yet, each of these concepts and political agendas is highly susceptible to co-optation that leads to dilution of their radical ideas, followed by their absorption into the 'ordinary'. This co-optation can, and usually happens from the outside-by actors who favour status quo (Coy 2013;Katz-Rosene and Paterson 2018;Stephens 2020). Co-optation can also happen from the inside, and by the proponents themselves, when faced with a temptation for proliferating and mainstreaming their concepts and political agendas.…”

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Envisioning just transformations in and beyond the EU bioeconomy: inspirations from decolonial environmental justice and degrowth

Ramcilovic‐Suominen

2022

Sustain Sci

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The European Union (EU) is adhering to decarbonization of its economy to tackle what is narrowly framed as ‘environmental issues’ of our socioecological and civilizational crises—including, but not limited to, climate change and biodiversity loss. A shift to bio-based economy (bioeconomy) is an important component of this effort. This paper applies theoretical ideas from decolonial environmental justice and degrowth, placed in the wider context of transformations, to analyse the EU bioeconomy policy within the global context, and to draw lessons and recommendations for just transformations in the EU bioeconomy policy. I identify five dominant logics and approaches in the EU bioeconomy that act as barriers for just transformations and propose alternative ones that can support such transformations. Barriers and alternatives include (1) framing ‘nature’ as a resource and service provider for humans, who are seen as separate from nature, and the need to abandon human–nature duality; (2) dominance of economic green growth and technoscientific policy solutions, and the need to place planetary justice at the centre of tackling socioecological crises; (3) a limited approach to justice, and the need to act upon climate and epistemic justice, including self-determination and self-governing authority; (4) the EU’s ambition for global leadership and competitiveness in global bioeconomic markets and governance, and the need to redefine global governance towards partnerships based on the principles of solidarity, mutual respect, reconciliation and redistribution of power and wealth; (5) hegemonic politico-economic structures and actor coalitions in charge of the EU bioeconomy, and the need for decentralized bottom-up leadership coalitions that promote direct democracy, local autonomy and sovereignty beyond state. I conclude with reflections on the politics of change and risks of co-optation, with a hope to inspire decolonial and just socioecological transformations in and beyond bioeconomy.

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“…The sucking in narrative of respondents, and their lack of operationalising the emerging vertical ties for dissent, mirrors the process of co-optation in particular limiting and managing dissent by bringing challengers into the governance system ( Coy, 2013 ). However, rather than seeing it as co-optation, respondents saw this process as a way of aligning their organisation’s objectives with that of the state.…”

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Managing Boundaries: The Role of Non-Profit Organisations in Russia’s Managed Democracy

Ljubownikow

Crotty

2017

Sociology

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This article examines Russian human service non-profit organisations (NPOs) to investigate the nature of civil society in a managed democracy. Specifically the focus is on emerging vertical ties between NPOs and ruling and governing elites. Drawing on qualitative data collected from health and education NPOs in three industrial regions, we find that in establishing such vertical ties the role of organisations and individuals within is changing – they have moved away from ignored outsiders towards accessing the circles of power and being tasked with managing the boundary between the state and civil society. In exploring these arrangements this article highlights that in the post-Soviet space, NPOs and the state are closely intertwined resembling co-optation. As a result the democratisation potential of human service NPOs is constrained. In discussing these insights we also draw parallels to contexts in which the state has outsourced welfare service to human service NPOs.

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Co‐Optation

Cited by 14 publications

References 5 publications

The evolution of green leases: towards inter-organizational environmental governance

The evolution of green leases: towards inter-organizational environmental governance

Envisioning just transformations in and beyond the EU bioeconomy: inspirations from decolonial environmental justice and degrowth

Managing Boundaries: The Role of Non-Profit Organisations in Russia’s Managed Democracy

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