Foucault in the forests—A review of the use of ‘Foucauldian’ concepts in forest policy analysis

doi:10.1016/J.FORPOL.2010.11.009

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Foucault in the forests—A review of the use of ‘Foucauldian’ concepts in forest policy analysis

Georg Winkel¹•Institutions (1)

01 Mar 2012-Forest Policy and Economics (Elsevier)-Vol. 16, pp 81-92

TL;DR: In this paper, a review of the use of the Foucauldian concepts in forest policy analysis is conducted, focusing on the use Foucaultian thinking in the analysis of forest policy.

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About: This article is published in Forest Policy and Economics.The article was published on 2012-03-01. It has received 93 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Policy analysis & Discourse analysis.

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Хабермас и Фуко: Теоретики Гражданского Общества (Habermas and Foucault: Thinkers for Civil Society?)

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Bent Flyvbjerg¹•Institutions (1)

University of Oxford¹

01 Jan 2000-Social Science Research Network

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors discuss the importance of civil empowerment in a strong democratic society and the best way to empower women in the democratic process, and propose a project for empowering women in civil society.

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Abstract: Сила гражданского общества - важнейшее условие сильной демократии. Придать силу этому обществу - центральная задача ее развития. Вопрос метода решения этой задачи важен для социальной и политической теории. Но что такое "гражданское общество"? Поиск ясного определения в литературе тщетен; определения слишком многочисленны и разнообразны. Но большинство согласны, что у гражданского общества есть ядро институтов - добровольные ассоциации за пределами государства и экономики, церкви, культурные союзы, спортивные клубы и дискуссионные общества, независимые СМИ, академии, группы граждан, организации по тендеру, расе, полу, ассоциации по профессиям, политические партии и профсоюзы [1, р. 453]. Их задача - поддержание и уточнение границ гражданского общества с государством путем двух процессов: расширение социального равенства, свободы, реструктуризация и демократизация институтов государства [2, р. 14]. Vaclav Havel observed that a strong civil society is a crucial condition of strong democracy. Empowering civil society is a central concern for the project of democracy, just as the question of how best to think about such empowerment is important to social and political theory. But what is ‘civil society’? A search for clear definitions in the relevant literature is in vain. Not because the concept lacks definitions; rather the definitions are too multiple and varied to bring clarity. Most writers on civil society agree, however, that civil society has an institutional core constituted by voluntary associations outside the sphere of the state and the economy. Such associations range from, for example, churches, cultural associations, sport clubs and debating societies to independent media, academies, groups of concerned citizens, grass-roots initiatives and organizations of gender, race and sexuality, all the way to occupational associations, political parties and labour unions (Habermas 1992a: 453).

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Discourse analysis of environmental policy revisited: traditions, trends, perspectives: Introduction

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Sina Leipold¹, Peter H. Feindt², Georg Winkel³, Reiner Keller⁴•Institutions (4)

University of Freiburg¹, Humboldt State University², European Forest Institute³, University of Augsburg⁴

10 Sep 2019-Journal of Environmental Policy & Planning

TL;DR: The field of discourse analysis has diversified in terms of conceptual approaches, metho-based approaches, and meto-semantics as discussed by the authors, since the mid-1990s, discourse analysis became an increasingly established framework in environmental policy analysis.

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Abstract: Since the mid-1990s, discourse analysis has become an increasingly established framework in environmental policy analysis. The field has diversified in terms of conceptual approaches, metho...

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...The majority of these discourses originate from the EU or North American contexts, a study focus of much discourse research (Leipold, 2014; Winkel, 2012)....
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...…to the dominance of argumentative-deliberative and Foucault-inspired discourse approaches found in previous reviews of parts of the research field (cf. Leipold, 2014; Winkel, 2012), the papers in this special issue provide a more balanced, albeit still incomplete, inclusion of other approaches....
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...Systematic reviews exist only for studies related to forestry and forest policy discourses (e.g. Arts et al., 2010; Leipold, 2014; Winkel, 2012)....
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...These tendencies are in line with the findings of Winkel (2012) and Leipold (2014)....
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...Moreover, numerous studies have applied Foucauldian (governmentality) perspectives to environmental policy in the ‘tropics’ (Winkel, 2012)....
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From governance to government: The strengthened role of state bureaucracies in forest and agricultural certification

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Lukas Giessen, Sarah Lilian Burns¹, Muhammad Alif K. Sahide, Agung Wibowo²•Institutions (2)

National University of La Plata¹, University of Palangka Raya²

01 Mar 2016-Policy and Society

TL;DR: In this article, private institutions for third-party labeling of food and wood products have been a lively field of empirical research, peaking in the conception of certification as a non-state market-drive.

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108 citations

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...…certification studies point out the important role of the state even in private regulation and resonate in recent political science literature about private governance (Arts, 2014; Bartley, 2014; Gulbrandsen, 2014) and governmentality (Sending & Neumann, 2006; Kinderman, 2012, 2013; Winkel, 2012)....
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Analysing institutional change in environmental governance: exploring the concept of ‘institutional work’

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Raoul Beunen¹, James Patterson²•Institutions (2)

Open University¹, VU University Amsterdam²

02 Jan 2019-Journal of Environmental Planning and Management

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors argue that studying institutional work should involve a look at both the actions taken by actors, as well as the resulting effects, and identify a critical need for attention to the fundamentally political character of institutional work, the cumulative effects of action taken by multiple actors, and communicative and discursive dimensions.

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Abstract: Institutional work focuses on the role of actors in creating, maintaining, or disrupting institutional structures. The concept has its origin in organisational studies. In this paper, we rethink and redefine institutional work to make it fit for use in the multi-actor and multi-level context of environmental governance. We survey key approaches to institutional change in the literature, and argue that institutional work should have a central place within this theorising. Drawing on the insights from this literature, we argue that studying institutional work should involve a look at both the actions taken by actors, as well as the resulting effects. We identify a critical need for attention to the fundamentally political character of institutional work, the cumulative effects of action taken by multiple actors, and communicative and discursive dimensions. Overall, the concept of institutional work opens up new possibilities for unpacking the longstanding challenge of understanding institutional change in e...

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...This literature elaborates on the relationship between power and knowledge and explores the ways in which configurations of power/knowledge shape policies and practices concerning the environment (Flyvbjerg 1998; Hillier 2002b; Smith and Stirling 2010; Winkel 2012; Van Assche, Duineveld, and Beunen 2014)....
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...…elaborates on the relationship between power and knowledge and explores the ways in which configurations of power/knowledge shape policies and practices concerning the environment (Flyvbjerg 1998; Hillier 2002b; Smith and Stirling 2010; Winkel 2012; Van Assche, Duineveld, and Beunen 2014)....
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Reviewing the Main Characteristics of the International Forest Regime Complex and Partial Explanations for its Fragmentation

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Lukas Giessen¹•Institutions (1)

University of Göttingen¹

18 Apr 2013-International Forestry Review

TL;DR: In this article, the authors provide an overview of the literature on the main characteristics of what is referred to as the international forest regime and secondly, based on this, to review explanations for fragmentation as its core characteristic.

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Abstract: The objectives of this review article are, firstly, to provide an overview of the literature on the main characteristics of what is referred to as the international forest regime and secondly, based on this, to review explanations for fragmentation as its core characteristic. A third aim of the article is to propose fields for future policy-oriented research on global forest governance, the international forest regime and its fragmentation. The article discusses different strands of literature and academic views on the existence and main characteristics of an international forest regime. It regards the recent notion of an international forest regime complex to be a fruitful topic for future research proposals and finds that fragmentation is its analytical core characteristic. In addition, the article reviews partial explanations for the great relevance of fragmentation in the case of the forest regime complex. It discriminates between domestic factors and causes as opposed to those resulting from the international system. Based on the review, the article suggests, lastly, fields for future research on global forest governance, the international forest regime complex and its fragmentation.

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102 citations

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...…and Buizer 2009, Hogl et al. 2009, Klinke 2009, Kleinschmit et al. 2009, Mert 2009, Pistorius et al. 2012, Steffek 2009, Winkel and Werland 2011, Winkel 2007, 2012), or issue-specific commodities and their markets (see e.g. Kastner et al. 2011 for a link between global wood trade and global…...
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