Knowledge Action Repertoires and the Outcomes of Collective Action: Local Community Action for Environmental Protection

<span class="abs_content">The article uses the knowledge practice repertoire approach, combined with an integrated opportunity approach, to investigate the role that local community knowledge based on holistic worldviews plays in the formation of collective actors, action and outcome...

Descripción completa

Guardado en:
Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Louisa Parks
Formato: article
Lenguaje:EN
Publicado: Coordinamento SIBA 2021
Materias:
Acceso en línea:https://doaj.org/article/5a32979cba9e40168197da9053fc2c03
Etiquetas: Agregar Etiqueta
Sin Etiquetas, Sea el primero en etiquetar este registro!
id oai:doaj.org-article:5a32979cba9e40168197da9053fc2c03
record_format dspace
spelling oai:doaj.org-article:5a32979cba9e40168197da9053fc2c032021-11-21T15:11:43ZKnowledge Action Repertoires and the Outcomes of Collective Action: Local Community Action for Environmental Protection1972-76232035-660910.1285/i20356609v14i3p1201https://doaj.org/article/5a32979cba9e40168197da9053fc2c032021-11-01T00:00:00Zhttp://siba-ese.unisalento.it/index.php/paco/article/view/24489https://doaj.org/toc/1972-7623https://doaj.org/toc/2035-6609<span class="abs_content">The article uses the knowledge practice repertoire approach, combined with an integrated opportunity approach, to investigate the role that local community knowledge based on holistic worldviews plays in the formation of collective actors, action and outcomes. This is argued to be crucial given that environmental governance is shaped instead by knowledge based on a worldview of a nature/culture divide, and that local community knowledge is key to responding to the planetary crisis and subject to this potential ontological clash. Attention to local community collective action using this lens can shed light on whether and how spaces can be made for different approaches, giving a fresh view to how outcomes matter. The article presents two case studies of local community collective action through community protocols from South Africa and Argentina. Community protocols are documents, recognised in international environmental law, where local communities set out their worldviews, their traditional knowledge and practices in support of environmental protection, and link these to rights and protections in national and international law as a basis for collective action. They are thus ideal sites for investigating knowledge practices and ontological politics. Focusing on different types of knowledge practices and opportunity contexts helped to untangle the complex question of how outcomes mattered to the local communities in these cases.</span><br />Louisa ParksCoordinamento SIBAarticlerepertoires of knowledge practicescollective actionenvironmental activismlocal communitiescommunity protocolsPolitical science (General)JA1-92ENPartecipazione e Conflitto, Vol 14, Iss 3, Pp 1201-1220 (2021)
institution DOAJ
collection DOAJ
language EN
topic repertoires of knowledge practices
collective action
environmental activism
local communities
community protocols
Political science (General)
JA1-92
spellingShingle repertoires of knowledge practices
collective action
environmental activism
local communities
community protocols
Political science (General)
JA1-92
Louisa Parks
Knowledge Action Repertoires and the Outcomes of Collective Action: Local Community Action for Environmental Protection
description <span class="abs_content">The article uses the knowledge practice repertoire approach, combined with an integrated opportunity approach, to investigate the role that local community knowledge based on holistic worldviews plays in the formation of collective actors, action and outcomes. This is argued to be crucial given that environmental governance is shaped instead by knowledge based on a worldview of a nature/culture divide, and that local community knowledge is key to responding to the planetary crisis and subject to this potential ontological clash. Attention to local community collective action using this lens can shed light on whether and how spaces can be made for different approaches, giving a fresh view to how outcomes matter. The article presents two case studies of local community collective action through community protocols from South Africa and Argentina. Community protocols are documents, recognised in international environmental law, where local communities set out their worldviews, their traditional knowledge and practices in support of environmental protection, and link these to rights and protections in national and international law as a basis for collective action. They are thus ideal sites for investigating knowledge practices and ontological politics. Focusing on different types of knowledge practices and opportunity contexts helped to untangle the complex question of how outcomes mattered to the local communities in these cases.</span><br />
format article
author Louisa Parks
author_facet Louisa Parks
author_sort Louisa Parks
title Knowledge Action Repertoires and the Outcomes of Collective Action: Local Community Action for Environmental Protection
title_short Knowledge Action Repertoires and the Outcomes of Collective Action: Local Community Action for Environmental Protection
title_full Knowledge Action Repertoires and the Outcomes of Collective Action: Local Community Action for Environmental Protection
title_fullStr Knowledge Action Repertoires and the Outcomes of Collective Action: Local Community Action for Environmental Protection
title_full_unstemmed Knowledge Action Repertoires and the Outcomes of Collective Action: Local Community Action for Environmental Protection
title_sort knowledge action repertoires and the outcomes of collective action: local community action for environmental protection
publisher Coordinamento SIBA
publishDate 2021
url https://doaj.org/article/5a32979cba9e40168197da9053fc2c03
work_keys_str_mv AT louisaparks knowledgeactionrepertoiresandtheoutcomesofcollectiveactionlocalcommunityactionforenvironmentalprotection
_version_ 1718418702628552704