Unexpected translations in urban policy mobility. The case of the Acahualinca development programme in Managua, Nicaragua

Zapata, Patrik; Campos, María José Zapata

doi:10.1016/j.habitatint.2014.10.001

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“…Previous research also shows how it takes many ideas to accomplish one simple action (Czarniawska and Joerges, ). For waste entrepreneurs in informal settlements to efficiently collect household waste, more stable collaborative arrangements between entrepreneurs and the city have to be established, for example, securing that waste transfer points are evacuated regularly (Joshi and Moore, ; Zapata and Zapata Campos, ; Zapata Campos and Zapata, ).…”

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“…This paper has contributed to bridge a gap in the policy implementation studies, bringing together literature on policy implementation practice (e.g. Long, ; Mosse, ; Rap, ;; Heeks and Stanforth, ) and organization studies (Zapata and Zapata Campos, , Czarniawska, ) by originally showing how policies and plans, or rather accounts of them, are adopted, translated and transformed by reframing, anchoring and muddling through (Czarniawska, ; ) practices. Reframing, anchoring and muddling through are not only three particular aspects of policy implementation practice.…”

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“…Sulle, ). If insufficiently anchored, accounts of a policy (or a whole policy) can fade away (Zapata and Zapata Campos, , ). Yet, this research has also contributed to show that policies, or at least parts of ideas and solutions incorporated in such policies, need to exist for some time in a community of practice and become taken‐for‐granted solutions or master ideas (Czarniawska‐Joerges and Joerges, ), for them to eventually be recovered by new policies and plans.…”

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“…Still, the policy implementation practice is under‐researched (Heeks and Stanforth, ; Mosse, ; ; Struyk, ; Umans, ). What occurs during implementation, how this process is related to policy outputs and how policies are adopted, translated and transformed among ministries, development agencies, consultants, project managers and beneficiaries, remain under‐scrutinized (Mosse, ; Rottenburg, ; Zapata and Zapata Campos, ). Zapata Campos and Zapata () have shown how aid policy implementation cannot be reduced to simple compliance, assimilation and appropriation of plans transferred from top‐down.…”

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Translating Policies into Informal Settlements' Critical Services: Reframing, Anchoring and Muddling Through

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Summary This paper examines how policies and plans are translated into informal settlements' practice. It builds on literature on policy implementation practice and organization studies, and more particularly, it applies the concepts of reframing, anchoring and muddling through. The paper is informed by the case of Kisumu City in Kenya and its Kisumu Integrated Solid Waste Management Plan and its implementation on Kisumu's informal settlements. The plan was funded by the Swedish International Development Agency through the United Nations Human Settlement Programme and implemented from 2007 to 2009. The study is based on action research carried out by a multidisciplinary and transdisciplinary group of researchers, through focus groups, participatory workshops, collaborative action, in‐depth interviews, document analysis and observations. The paper examines what original aspects of Kisumu Integrated Solid Waste Management Plan were translated, that is, which ones faded out and which ones became stabilized into and travel as ‘best practices’ to other locations. The paper shows how the generation of ‘best practices’ can be loosely coupled with the practices that policy seeks to change. It concludes, in line with previous research in the field, how successful policy implementation is based on cultural and political interpretations rather on evidence of improved practices. Copyright © 2016 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

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“…These practices include the formulation of policy documents, the development of measures and tools, and the negotiation with cooperating political institutions. Organizational culture, however, has not been addressed in the ongoing policy mobility debate, even in those studies that examine the translation of mobile policies in those institutional contexts that differ from political institutions or policy communities that shaped and circulated mobile policies (Peck and Theodore, 2010b;Söderström et al, 2013;Machold, 2015;Zapata and Zapata Campos, 2015;Albrecht, 2016).…”

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The role of organizational culture in policy mobilities – the case of South Korean climate change adaptation policies

Schäfer

2017

Geogr. Helv.

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Abstract. The conceptualization of policies as mobile and mutable knowledge is the key feature of the recent debate on policy mobilities. Policy mobility studies have focused on the movement and translation of policies as well as on the impact of mobile policies on policy-making processes and governed spaces. Given that policy mobilities have mainly been examined in comparable institutional contexts, the current debate has neglected the role of organizational culture in the translation of policies. Organizational culture is understood as a set of shared assumptions that guide what happens in organizations by defining appropriate practices of policy making. The case study, South Korean adaptation policy, illustrates that organizational culture has a significant impact on the translation of mobile adaptation policy. Besides the claim to consider organizational culture more prominently in the field of policy mobility studies, this paper illustrates the translation process of adaptation policy in the South Korean political system. The practices in South Korean political institutions dealing with climate change adaptation are highly characterized by the avoidance of risks. The propensity to avoid risks leads policy makers to focus on technical solutions to climate change adaptation and to neglect the participation of civil society.

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Factoring in Societal Culture in Policy Transfer Design: the Proliferation of Private Sponsorship of Refugees

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2019

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The Canadian model of private sponsorship schemes (PSS) for refugees is becoming an increasingly popular target for policy transfer in the field of migration. This article argues that the influence of societal culture on this transplanting process has played an underexplored role in the literature. We seek to provide original guidance for factoring in cultural elements into the policy transfer framework by demonstrating how specific design choices in PSS transfer display clear cultural associations. A tentative study of nine countries that have adopted different models of PSS corroborates this hypothesis empirically. Our preliminary findings suggest that cultural compatibility may indeed increase the effectiveness of a policy transfer in some instances, while culturally preferred choices being adopted in other cases may result in suboptimal design. This converse interplay indicates that cultural awareness constitutes a crucial element of successful transfer processes and stresses the need to adopt a culturally sensitive perspective more frequently and more explicitly.

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Unexpected translations in urban policy mobility. The case of the Acahualinca development programme in Managua, Nicaragua

Cited by 15 publications

References 19 publications

Translating Policies into Informal Settlements' Critical Services: Reframing, Anchoring and Muddling Through

Translating Policies into Informal Settlements' Critical Services: Reframing, Anchoring and Muddling Through

The role of organizational culture in policy mobilities – the case of South Korean climate change adaptation policies

Factoring in Societal Culture in Policy Transfer Design: the Proliferation of Private Sponsorship of Refugees

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