Five Faces of Power in Biodiversity Politics
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Five Faces of Power in Biodiversity Politics Bas Arts
Transcript of Five Faces of Power in Biodiversity Politics
Five Faces of Power in
Biodiversity Politics
Bas Arts
Power....
Different perspectives…
Main thinkers....
Dahl (1st face)
Bachrach and Baratz (two faces)
Lukes (three dimensions)
Foucault (4th face)
Multi-dimensional power perspective!
Barnett & Duvall, 2005
Five faces of power...
1. Agency: capacity to achieve outcomes
Outcomes...
Production of a common good (biodiversity)
Furthering of one’s interest (biotech industry)
Outcomes...
Production of a common good (biodiversity)
Furthering of one’s interest (biotech industry)
Goods, bads and interests are not given; shaped
by other faces of power!
Five faces of power...
1. Agency: capacity to achieve outcomes
2. Relational: A causes B to do something (s)he
otherwise would not do
Five faces of power...
1. Agency: capacity to achieve outcomes
2. Relational: A causes B to do something (s)he
otherwise would not do
3. Dispositional: authority over ‘subordinates’
Five faces of power...
1. Agency: capacity to achieve outcomes
2. Relational: A causes B to do something (s)he
otherwise would not do
3. Dispositional: authority over ‘subordinates’
4. Institutional: rules that enable some, constrain
others; ‘mobilization of bias’
Five faces of power...
1. Agency: capacity to achieve outcomes
2. Relational: A causes B to do something (s)he
otherwise would not do
3. Dispositional: authority over ‘subordinates’
4. Institutional: rules that enable some, constrain
others; ‘mobilization of bias’
5. Productive: constitution of subjects and identities
through discourse
Power and football
1. Agency: talented, rich player
2. Relational: player A forcing B to defend
3. Dispositional: referee over players
4. Institutional: rules that enable men over women
5. Productive: the discourses that constitute the
macho players, with their tattoos and fancy cars,
the club-coloured fans, the violent hooligans,
etc.
The football match
In practice, all faces of
power are
‘performative’
Yet collective outcome
is not fixed
Logic of the game AND
feel for the game
Five faces of power...
1. Agency: capacity to achieve outcomes
2. Relational: A causes B to do something (s)he
otherwise would not do
3. Dispositional: authority over ‘subordinates’
4. Institutional: rules that enable some, constrain
others; ‘mobilization of bias’
5. Productive: constitution of subjects and identities
through discourse
Political
influence
Complex power processes
Relational
power
Political
influence
Complex power processes
Positional
power
Complex power processes
Relational
power
Political
influence
Positional
power
Complex power processes
Discursive power
Institutional power
Relational
power
Political
influence
Positional
power
Complex power processes
Discursive power
Institutional power
Relational
power
Political
influence
Biodiversity and power
1. Agency: biologist Wilson
2. Relational: IUCN UN
3. Dispositional: Wilson > students
4. Institutional: CBD...
Biodiversity and power
1. Agency: biologist Wilson
2. Relational: IUCN UN
3. Dispositional: Wilson > students
4. Institutional: CBD...
5. Productive: ‘environmentality’ = the creation of
environmental subjects (Agrawal, 2005)
Biodiv-tality...???
Biodiversity politics
In practice, all faces of
power are
‘performative’
Yet collective outcome
is not fixed
Logic of politics AND
feel for the politics
Thanks
