What’s the story? Creating and sustaining environmental networks

Ingram, Mrill; Ingram, Helen; Lejano, Raul P.

doi:10.1080/09644016.2014.919717

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“…So, narrative water ethics aims to improve actual water practices, which first of all need to acknowledge that there are 'multiple ontologies of water', as Julian Yates and colleagues point out [28]. In doing so, narrative water ethics draws on the potential of narratives "in creating an alternative space for ecological imagination" [56,57]. As such, it is well suited to better observe, concretize and contemplate certain aspects of the political in water governance, such as context, agency, contestation or values and norms.…”

Section: Re-theorizing the Political With Narrative Ethicsmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…By dealing with stories, i.e., the narrative structuring of experiences and actions, narrative water ethics contributes critically and constructively to re-theorizing the political in water. Its critical perspective problematizes existing moral systems and storytelling itself, while its constructive perspective aims to provide orientation for water action and to influence the debate on historically situated issues about the good life and the right action [46,47,56,58]. So, this paper argues for the potentials of an analytical perspective and does not present empirical results.…”

Section: Re-theorizing the Political With Narrative Ethicsmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Since such narratives also deal with good or right actions in social spaces, they are constitutive for the formation of the political [93,95]. As such, narratives deal with and lend legitimacy to public action [56,57,94].…”

Section: The Ethical Relevance Of Narrationsmentioning

confidence: 99%

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I Want to Tell You a Story: How Narrative Water Ethics Contributes to Re-theorizing Water Politics

Meisch

2019

Water

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This paper explores potential contributions of narrative ethics to the re-theorization of the political in water governance, particularly seeking to rectify concerns regarding when water is excluded from cultural contexts and issues of power and dominance are ignored. Against this background, this paper argues for a re-theorization of the political in water governance, understood as the way in which diverse ideas about possible and desirable human-water relationships and just configurations for their institutionalization are negotiated in society. Theorization is conceived as the concretization of reality rather than its abstraction. Narrative ethics deals with the narrative structure of moral action and the significance of narrations for moral action. It occupies a middle ground and mediates between descriptive ethics that describe moral practices, and prescriptive ethics that substantiate binding norms. A distinguishing feature is its focus on people’s experiences and their praxis. Narrative water ethics is thus able to recognize the multitude of real and possible human-water relationships, to grasp people’s entanglement in their water stories, to examine moral issues in their cultural contexts, and, finally, to develop locally adapted notions of good water governance.

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Section: Re-theorizing the Political With Narrative Ethicsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Re-theorizing the Political With Narrative Ethicsmentioning

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I Want to Tell You a Story: How Narrative Water Ethics Contributes to Re-theorizing Water Politics

Meisch

2019

Water

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“…In this sense, networks are not just the reflection of institutional structures and are not static (Marsh and Smith 2000). For example, policy actors recruit like-minded allies to help form powerful coalitions, they argue with one another to influence the ideas of other actors, and bargain and negotiate to break up networks and underlying power structures (Marsh and Smith 2000, Mische and Pattison 2000, Weible and Sabatier 2005, Ingram et al 2014). Policy change is most often driven by coalitions of actors that share similar beliefs, values, and policy objectives (Österblom and Bodin 2012).…”

Section: Policy Coalitions For Change: Ideas and Interactionsmentioning

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REDD+ policy networks: exploring actors and power structures in an emerging policy domain

Brockhaus¹,

Gregorio²,

Carmenta³

2014

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ABSTRACT. Policy making is often neither rational nor solution-oriented, but driven by negotiations of interests of multiple actors that increasingly tend to take place in policy networks. Such policy networks integrate societal actors beyond the state, which all aim, to different degrees, at influencing ongoing policy processes and outcomes. Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation (REDD+) can be considered as such an emerging policy domain, in which actors cooperate and conflict in network structures, build coalitions and try to control information and finance flows relevant for REDD+ decision making. This special feature is the result of an extensive comparative research effort to investigate national level REDD+ policy processes and emerging policy networks. This unique collection of seven country cases and a comparative study provides evidence on how power, coalitions, and different interactions among actors in policy networks enable the transformational change required for an effective, efficient, and equitable national REDD+ design. However, as we will see in most of the cases, where the dominant coalitions fail to tackle the drivers of deforestation and forest degradation, they also hinder such major policy reforms required for REDD+. The aim of this editorial serves four purposes: first, we provide an argument about "why" policy network analysis is highly relevant to the study of REDD+ policy processes; second, we explain "how" policy network analysis is used in this special feature to investigate policy processes in this domain; and third, we explore the "so what?" or how a policy network lens helps us understand the political opportunities and challenges for REDD+. Finally, we provide an outlook for the relevance and future research design of policy network analysis when applied to REDD+ and to policy network structures more broadly.

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“…The actors involved in the policy process were also identified since this shows the kind of knowledge base on which the policies rest, which narrative dominates and which actors or network of actors operate within the policy narrative (c.f. Ingram et al, 2014). It is here important to not discern specific actor's ideas, values and beliefs but what they contribute to the construction of the master narrative.…”

Section: Analysing Policy Documents Through Narrativesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Social citizenship and people with dementia : Designing social care policies in Sweden

Nordh¹

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iii ABSTRACTPeople with dementia are commonly in need of some form of social care from the social services in order to manage their everyday situations. However, social services are shaped by the construction of policy targets, i.e. the construction of people with dementia as citizens. The aim of this dissertation is to explore the social citizenship of people with dementia. Social citizenship for people with dementia is explored by studying how people with dementia have, in policy documents, been constructed as a target group, and also by studying how policies are enacted in practice by care managers, in their work and in their meetings with people with dementia. This is illustrated by studying policy documents from national level which range over nearly 40 years. It is shown that, if and when people with dementia are visible in policy documents, they commonly have a negative construction based on their cognitive and communicative abilities, and they are constructed as a burden, disturbing and incapable, wherein focus lies in their negative attributes. We further investigate in this dissertation, how street-level bureaucrats, in this case care managers, experience meeting with people with dementia when they apply for social services. This part of the dissertation is built upon 19 interviews with care managers from four different organisations, which show that care managers experience difficulties in their meetings with people with dementia. These difficulties comprise the exchange of information between care managers and people with dementia, refusal of social services by the person with dementia, the influence of relatives and other professions as well as moral dilemmas, such as the relations between the person with dementia and their relatives. The study also shows that care managers have little support from policies, e.g. legislation and guidelines, in how to handle these dilemmas, and must thus create their own local ways of handling these situations. This requires that care managers are influential policy actors concerning the policy target group of people with dementia.The policy processes which this dissertation illustrates, affect the social citizenship of people with dementia. It is shown that they, to an extent, have difficulties in influencing their own everyday situation concerning social services. Finally, the policy processes, such as the construction of people with dementia as well as the policy practice in which they encounter care managers, will affect their possibility to influence their social citizenship.Keywords: Social citizenship, people with dementia, policy, policy practice, policy actors, street-level bureaucrats, social work, care managers, rights Abstract iv Personer med demenssjukdom behöver vanligtvis någon form av socialt stöd från socialtjänsten för att kunna hantera sin egen vardag. Emellertid så är socialt stöd format av konstruktionen av policymålgrupper, dvs konstruktionen av personer med demenssjukdom som medborgare. Syftet med denna avhandling är att undersöka det ...

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What’s the story? Creating and sustaining environmental networks

Cited by 23 publications

References 45 publications

I Want to Tell You a Story: How Narrative Water Ethics Contributes to Re-theorizing Water Politics

I Want to Tell You a Story: How Narrative Water Ethics Contributes to Re-theorizing Water Politics

REDD+ policy networks: exploring actors and power structures in an emerging policy domain

Social citizenship and people with dementia : Designing social care policies in Sweden

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