Pipeline conflicts, coalitions, and strategic action: A review of the literature

Coalitions and repertories in the strategic action field of the people affected by the Rio Doce disaster

“…However, the term needs to be elaborated from the point of view of the relationships between the actors and the context in which the action takes place beyond the central objective. Thus, according to Hess (2023), a comprehensive definition of the political strategy includes an action plan that involves collective or individual agents, means, and tactics to achieve a goal, such as social change, and the renewal of tactics in the face of the reaction of opposing coalitions.…”

“…Therefore, action agents result from a composition of coalitions and can establish institutional repertoires of action and extra-institutional repertoires (Hess 2023). Therefore, at this actor-centered meso level, the SAF approach helps understand how social actors struggle to achieve positions of power, challenge or disrupt the social order, and why some actors succeed and others do not.…”

“…Bringing these definitions together, one can identify a set of constituent units from both kinds of literature that help to understand how agency is constructed through a coalition or a network of coalitions and how strategy is relatively modified through repertoires. That is, in a social field composed of relationships of cooperation and conflict with other actors (Hess 2023).…”

“…Therefore, political strategies are related to coalitions (Hess 2019), as the interaction consists of an action plan by collective and individual agents, means, and specific tactics to achieve a political objective or social change in a specific historical context. Furthermore, the idea of the agent is understood broadly, including SM and coalitions (Hess 2023).…”