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来源类型 | Article |
规范类型 | 其他 |
DOI | 10.1016/j.geoforum.2016.01.009 |
ISBN | 0016-7185 |
Nonhumans in the practice of development: material agency and friction in a small-scale energy program in Indonesia. | |
Ariani Fatimah, Yuti; Arora, Saurabh | |
发表日期 | 2016-02-06 |
出处 | Geoforum |
出版者 | Elsevier |
出版年 | 2016 |
页码 | 25-34 |
语种 | 英语 |
摘要 | We develop the outlines of a new approach to study the role of nonhumans in constituting ‘implementation’ and calculative-discursive practices in development projects and programs. Developing a framework around the concept of friction (material resistance or recalcitrance encountered in processes of transformation), we analyze an Energy Self-sufficient Village program in Indonesia. Focusing on specific projects and episodes within this program, we identify multiple distinctive instances of friction. These were driven by nonhumans’ (and humans’) resistance, as remolding of development beneficiaries’ practices was attempted by project administrators, government officials, entrepreneurs and by the (scientific) calculations embedded in their policies, strategies and models. In concluding, we distill four ways in which nonhumans relationally shape development practices: a) by resisting representations and calculations produced by human actors, b) by re-directing planned/expected courses of action, c) through biophysical change to their weight or textures as they move in space and time, and d) by mediating competition for resources. Overall, nonhumans play a central role in making and unmaking asymmetric relations of power in practice and by constituting practices that diverge from prior expectations, problematize linear understandings of ‘policy implementation’. Their material and discursive agency is multiple, manifesting differently in different relational settings, which highlights the importance of broadening the range of spokespersons who speak on behalf of nonhumans and whose voices can be considered reliable and true. Our study thus provides support to calls for pluralizing and democratizing development ‘expertise’ beyond the usual suspects in science, government and civil society. |
特色分类 | H Social Sciences |
关键词 | Actor-network theory Practices Development policy Policy-making Policy implementation Sustainable development Agrofuels Bioenergy Indonesia |
URL | http://sro.sussex.ac.uk/id/eprint/59543/ |
来源智库 | Science Policy Research Unit (United Kingdom) |
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资源类型 | 智库出版物 |
条目标识符 | http://119.78.100.153/handle/2XGU8XDN/468643 |
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | Ariani Fatimah, Yuti,Arora, Saurabh. Nonhumans in the practice of development: material agency and friction in a small-scale energy program in Indonesia.. 2016. |
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