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Environmental Governance through Partnerships - A Discourse Theoretical Study (Hardcover)
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Environmental Governance through Partnerships - A Discourse Theoretical Study (Hardcover)
Series: New Horizons in Environmental Politics series
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Taking sustainable development as its central substantive area of
concern, this important new book offers a compelling portrait of
the global partnership regime in all its richness and complexity,
revealing its logics of emergence and operation. Mert demonstrates
the analytical and critical power of an antiessentialist discourse
theoretical approach to the study of partnerships, examining a
number of crucial mediating discourses drawn from economics,
democratic theory and ecology. Her work embodies what all such
studies aspire to be: an ontological and not merely an ontical
inquiry. The novel concepts developed - particularly 'sedimentation
of conflict' - makes this a potentially transformative study.' -
Jason Glynos, University of Essex, UK'Mert's book offers a highly
provocative treatment of public-private collaboration for
sustainability. It follows the discourses of privatization,
participation and sustainable development through the language and
practices of the partnerships adopted at the World Summit for
Sustainable Development. As such, the study opens a fresh inquiry
on the discursive battles that surround new forms of environmental
governance and their fit with broader norms of representation and
effectiveness.' - Liliana B. Andonova, Graduate Institute of
International and Development Studies, Geneva 'In sum, this volume
is an important and timely step forward in our understanding of the
emergence and legitimacy of public-private partnerships for
sustainable development. The book's contribution is both
theoretically refreshing, innovative and empirically well-grounded
in a deep analysis of major global discourses. Given the still
ongoing discussions on multisectoral partnerships in the UN system,
this book offers important new perspectives on this partnership
idea that will be valuable for both political theorists and policy
practitioners.' - From the foreword by Frank Biermann
Sustainability partnerships were the Type-II outcomes of the 2002
Johannesburg Summit, which promised increased effectiveness in and
wider participation to global environmental governance. They have
quickly become the main form of collaboration between UN and
non-state actors. This groundbreaking book uses the results of
quantitative and qualitative research to analyze sustainability
partnerships and their role in environmental governance. It focuses
on the origins of and the rationale behind the concept of
'public-private partnership'. With a combination of
post-structuralist discourse theory and interpretative methods such
as historical discourse analysis and ecocriticism not previously
used in studies on partnership, Ay em Mert examines three
discourses that have been rooted into the logic of partnerships:
privatization of governance, sustainable development and democratic
participation. Ultimately, Mert argues that these discourses help
understand both the potential and structural limitations of
sustainability partnerships. This revolutionary book will be useful
to researchers of environmental governance, transnational and
global studies, looking for an empirical and analytical
interpretation of the topic. Political theorists and philosophers,
as well as discourse analysts, will also find the theoretical and
methodological perspectives to be of interest.
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