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Power, politics and networks: shaping partnerships for sustainable communities
Author(s) -
Davies Anna
Publication year - 2002
Publication title -
area
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.958
H-Index - 82
eISSN - 1475-4762
pISSN - 0004-0894
DOI - 10.1111/1475-4762.00071
Subject(s) - general partnership , legitimacy , politics , power (physics) , corporate governance , actor–network theory , sociology , field (mathematics) , work (physics) , sustainable development , environmental governance , network governance , public relations , public administration , political science , environmental ethics , social science , economics , management , engineering , law , mechanical engineering , philosophy , physics , mathematics , quantum mechanics , pure mathematics
The emergence of environmental governance for sustainable development as a field of inquiry has stimulated a plethora of research into new formations for governing the environment. Partnerships hold an exalted status in these formations, but there has been surprisingly little evaluative work of their activities. This paper extends that embryonic analysis through empirical consideration of a partnership established to foster the development of sustainable communities, specifically by stimulating greater public participation in positive environmental activities. Theoretical insights about patterns of power, perceived authority and legitimacy in the partnership are developed through a consideration of ‘actor–spaces’ and the ‘sociology of translation’ that emerge from actor–network theory.