Institutional liminality, ideological pluralism and the pragmatic behaviours of a ‘transition entrepreneur’

Nunes, Richard; Parker, Gavin

doi:10.1016/j.geoforum.2021.07.027

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“…The findings discussed in the article also reveal how the mobility of key actors across sectors and governance organizations has helped foster shared understanding and, echoing work on institutional pluralism (Nunes and Parker, 2021), a blurring of sectorally distinctive forms of rationality, while providing a continuity in thinking amid what at first appears to be the flux of perpetual policy and institutional reform. One continuing strand has been the receptiveness of these actors to new ideas, partly reflecting their willingness to adopt new rationalities but also revealing a sense of pragmatic acceptance of the need to attract funding during times of scarcity in public resources.…”

Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 82%

“…Work on institutional pluralism suggests an alternative yet related form of logic based on how actors with diverse ideological and intellectual framings of policy imperatives, when drawn into new governance ensembles, will seek to avoid conflicts that derail a partnership, in the process having to rationalize pragmatic compromises. As Nunes and Parker (2021) discuss in relation to social enterprises working in such contexts, there can be tensions between more "purist" approaches that seek to retain a stakeholder's commitment to its own institution's aspirational values, and the more pragmatic "survivalist" need to attract funding to ensure their work can continue. It is potentially helpful, then, that new soft space governance arrangements premised on new spatial imaginaries can emerge-or dissolve-as actors come together to broker compromises in search of new funding.…”

Section: Nature Conservationmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…The valuing natural capital approach enjoyed considerable support from actors working in government bodies and some in local government, particularly in Greater Manchester (eftec Environmental Finance Countryscape, 2019;GMCA, 2021). Reflecting recent work on institutional pluralism (Nunes and Parker, 2021), interviewee responses suggested that voluntary groups for the most part appear to have engaged with work valuing natural capital, or at least did not publicly object to it. Instead, most voluntary groups remained open to the natural capital approach, viewing it as a way to secure additional funds and help maintain the cohesion of the LNP.…”

Section: Natural Capital Cultural Heritage and Ecosystem Services: Gr...mentioning

confidence: 99%

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Geo-Environmental Spatial Imaginaries: Reframing Nature Using Soft Spaces and Hybrid Rationalities

Tippett

Deas

Haughton

2022

Front. Sustain. Cities

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This article introduces the idea of hybrid rationalities as a complement to and extension of existing scholarship on hybrid governance and hybrid infrastructure. The research presented here also contributes to work on soft spaces and spatial imaginaries, which has mainly focused on planning and regeneration, by extending consideration to geo-environmental imaginaries and environmental soft spaces. A case study of the Mersey Belt region, which stretches between Manchester and Liverpool in England, reveals the ways in which multiple forms of new rationalities have been absorbed into the work of those looking to promote strategic environmental thinking that works at landscape scale, that is above the level of the individual site. In the process, multiple new geo-environmental spatial imaginaries have been created as part of the process of attracting funders and stakeholders. These new spatial imaginaries have been accompanied by experiments in creating new environmental soft spaces, supported by increasingly hybridized forms of governance in which the roles and rationalities of different stakeholders have to some extent blurred. In the process, actors have shaped, and shared distinctive understandings of how projects to support nature can be used to support wider goals such as addressing climate change, economic regeneration and social well-being.

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Section: Discussionmentioning

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Section: Nature Conservationmentioning

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Geo-Environmental Spatial Imaginaries: Reframing Nature Using Soft Spaces and Hybrid Rationalities

Tippett

Deas

Haughton

2022

Front. Sustain. Cities

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“…Altogether, the legal institutional duties associated with clean air provision operates separately from those moral ethical duties of care over the placement of play areas, leaving planners to operate within a sphere of decision making that is institutionally plural and in which there is, consequently, no single principle of distributive justice. This raises significant questions for further research, namely, regarding legitimacy in the face of such institutional pluralism [67], the institutional limits of planning practice itself [68] and the validity of utilitarian notions of the "public interest" [69]. Answers to these questions will require additional, qualitative, in-depth research.…”

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Entitlement, Indeterminacy and Professional Discretion in Urban Planning: Problematising a Child’s Right to Clean Air for Play in London

Taylor

Nunes

2022

Sustainability

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The interaction between air quality and play space receives less focus in planning than it has in public health and environmental sciences research. In this paper, seven local planning authorities of inner London (UK) were sampled from the 10 boroughs with the worst air quality in parks. Greenwich, with significantly better air quality, was included for comparison. The selected authorities were validated against deprivation data, ensuring variance in socio-economic terms. Across this sample, 21 major residential planning applications were assessed, alongside a document analysis of planning policy documents for each authority. Lastly, five semi-structured interviews with different practitioners collectively provided multi-disciplinary perspectives on the planning processes across the sample. Despite the national government having conferred children a right to leisure space and a healthy environment via international conventions, the English planning system, as an institutional rights framework, is not consistently prioritising the delivery of children’s play space nor delivering play space where the air quality has been robustly assessed. In other words, such rights have been subjugated to other priorities in limited urban space in London. Therefore, a discretionary planning system does not preclude individual human rights from becoming disadvantaged under democratically controlled decision-making processes.

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“…In this way we are encouraged to appreciate the pragmatism of the bricoleur, while also recognizing that the everyday practices of bricolage can be messy when factoring in individual/collective value sets and the situations that lead to their negotiation and compromise (e.g. Nunes & Parker, 2021).…”

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Institutional bricolage in community-based water management: some insights from non-representational theory

Nunes

Fielmua

2022

International Journal of Water Resources Development

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Drawing on non-representational theory, using as an example the work of Gilles Deleuze, we offer a complementary perspective on critical institutionalism. We examine four case studies of community-based water management in the Upper West Region of Ghana, which has empowered communities and encouraged democratically accountable approaches, while also underpinning discriminatory practices. We find this can be attributed to institutional bricolage, but we argue that non-representational theory also provides an alternative orientation to our data. It allows the agency of disempowered individuals to be recast as acts of hope.

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Institutional liminality, ideological pluralism and the pragmatic behaviours of a ‘transition entrepreneur’

Cited by 6 publications

References 53 publications

Geo-Environmental Spatial Imaginaries: Reframing Nature Using Soft Spaces and Hybrid Rationalities

Geo-Environmental Spatial Imaginaries: Reframing Nature Using Soft Spaces and Hybrid Rationalities

Entitlement, Indeterminacy and Professional Discretion in Urban Planning: Problematising a Child’s Right to Clean Air for Play in London

Institutional bricolage in community-based water management: some insights from non-representational theory

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