Preadaptative Transactions and Institutional Change: Wolf‐critical activism in southwestern Finland
Abstract Finland has had problems protecting the grey wolf ( Canis lupus ) for decades. Over the past few years, the government of Finland has taken several steps to improve its policy on wolves. In this paper, we explore the grassroots activism that institutional adjustments have triggered. This wo...
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crwiley:10.1002/eet.1754 2024-06-02T08:05:02+00:00 Preadaptative Transactions and Institutional Change: Wolf‐critical activism in southwestern Finland Hiedanpää, Juha Pellikka, Jani 2017 http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/eet.1754 https://api.wiley.com/onlinelibrary/tdm/v1/articles/10.1002%2Feet.1754 https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1002/eet.1754 en eng Wiley http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/termsAndConditions#vor Environmental Policy and Governance volume 27, issue 3, page 270-281 ISSN 1756-932X 1756-9338 journal-article 2017 crwiley https://doi.org/10.1002/eet.1754 2024-05-03T11:10:21Z Abstract Finland has had problems protecting the grey wolf ( Canis lupus ) for decades. Over the past few years, the government of Finland has taken several steps to improve its policy on wolves. In this paper, we explore the grassroots activism that institutional adjustments have triggered. This work builds on ethnographic presence in two southwestern Finnish wolf territories. Theoretically, we draw from institutional theory and use transactions as the unit of analysis. We identify four ways in which wolf‐critical civil society has provided an institutional basis for particular changes: (i) questioning the purity of the wolf, (ii) making scientific evidence fallible, (iii) producing negative emotional effects and (iv) maintaining strong policy pressure against the presence of the wolf. In the discussion, we explain how these modifications have functioned. Actors critical of the wolf have exercised the politics of disturbance, produced various epistemic cues and created conditions for reframing existing rights and the emergence of new ones. Due to these bottom‐up preadaptive transactions, wolf‐policy‐related institutional adjustments have, in many respects, taken on volitional and spontaneous features. Copyright © 2017 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd and ERP Environment Article in Journal/Newspaper Canis lupus Wiley Online Library Environmental Policy and Governance 27 3 270 281 |
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Abstract Finland has had problems protecting the grey wolf ( Canis lupus ) for decades. Over the past few years, the government of Finland has taken several steps to improve its policy on wolves. In this paper, we explore the grassroots activism that institutional adjustments have triggered. This work builds on ethnographic presence in two southwestern Finnish wolf territories. Theoretically, we draw from institutional theory and use transactions as the unit of analysis. We identify four ways in which wolf‐critical civil society has provided an institutional basis for particular changes: (i) questioning the purity of the wolf, (ii) making scientific evidence fallible, (iii) producing negative emotional effects and (iv) maintaining strong policy pressure against the presence of the wolf. In the discussion, we explain how these modifications have functioned. Actors critical of the wolf have exercised the politics of disturbance, produced various epistemic cues and created conditions for reframing existing rights and the emergence of new ones. Due to these bottom‐up preadaptive transactions, wolf‐policy‐related institutional adjustments have, in many respects, taken on volitional and spontaneous features. Copyright © 2017 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd and ERP Environment |
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Preadaptative Transactions and Institutional Change: Wolf‐critical activism in southwestern Finland |
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Preadaptative Transactions and Institutional Change: Wolf‐critical activism in southwestern Finland |
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