Social Movements' Pressure Strategies during Forest Disputes in Finland
ABSTRACT Environmental non-governmental organizations (ENGOs) and rural social movements have become influential actors in natural resource governance. This article analyzes forestry dispute strategies in three cases from northern Finland, applying Actor-Network Theory (ANT), with special attention...
| Published in: | Journal of Natural Resources Policy Research |
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| Format: | Article in Journal/Newspaper |
| Language: | English |
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The Pennsylvania State University Press
2010
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| Online Access: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/19390459.2010.487991 https://scholarlypublishingcollective.org/psup/jnrpr/article-pdf/2/3/281/1512931/naturesopolirese_2_3_281.pdf |
| Summary: | ABSTRACT Environmental non-governmental organizations (ENGOs) and rural social movements have become influential actors in natural resource governance. This article analyzes forestry dispute strategies in three cases from northern Finland, applying Actor-Network Theory (ANT), with special attention to its concept of translation, to analyze emerging multilevel stakeholder networks that include both human actors and non-human interests. Our particular focus is on the race for spokesman status on behalf of such ‘third parties’. We find that the more heterogeneous actor-networks the stakeholders build, the better opportunities they have to reach their goals. Successful strategies build environmental policy actor-networks in particular by combining different levels of human interests with different ecological arguments. |
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