From shiny shoes to muddy reality: understanding how meso-state actors negotiate the implementation gap in participatory forest management
| Autor: | Anne Kairu, Robert Mbeche, James Gitundu Kairo, Mark Huxham, Kiplagat Kotut, Caroline Upton |
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| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2018 |
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Sociology and Political Science
media_common.quotation_subject Culture and Communities 0211 other engineering and technologies Biodiversity and conservation Legislation 02 engineering and technology 010501 environmental sciences Environmental Science (miscellaneous) Development Public administration 01 natural sciences ethnography 577 Ecology Participatory forest management Bricolage State (polity) Political science Agency (sociology) Ethnography Accountability 0105 earth and related environmental sciences media_common 021107 urban & regional planning 15. Life on land critical institutionalism Kenya Negotiation QH Natural history agency bricolage Animal and Plant Science Research Group Social psychology |
| ISSN: | 0894-1920 1521-0723 |
| Popis: | Recent research on participatory forest management (PFM) in the global south has highlighted the existence of a widespread “implementation gap” between the ambitious intent enshrined in legislation and the often partial, disappointing rollout of devolved forest governance on the ground. Here, through an ethnographic case study of forest officers (FOs) in Kenya, we draw on a framework of critical institutionalism to examine how key meso-level actors, or “interface bureaucrats,” negotiate and challenge this implementation gap in everyday forest governance. We go beyond consideration of institutional bricolage in isolation or as an aggregate category, to analyze how bricolage as aggregation, alteration, and/or articulation is variously driven, shaped, and constrained by FOs’ multiple accountabilities and agency. Our analysis highlights the locally specific, contingent, and mutually reinforcing nature of accountability, agency and bricolage, and their explanatory power in relation to the performance and nature of “actually existing” PFM. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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