Please find below the abstract of the talk:
What follows is a conceptual framework that emerges from my engagement in the past three years with Margaret Archer and Elinor Ostrom, two reputable female scholars whose solid scholarly contributions have often been misplaced within particular epistemological disciplines in science, if not at all forgotten. I perform with them on a few shared ontological and normative positions, in a dancing arena that has been shaped by three university hubs in the past 15 years. I engage with Archer and Ostrom to make sense conflicts in the field of Indonesian spatial development and planning, while practicing diverse analytical movements in examining two (water) infrastructural regimes in Jakarta (the one sanctioned by centralized statutory institutions and another performed by irregularities of the informal sector).
I raise some questions, hoping to answer them collectively. Despite conflicts, should we think of service co-production and co-productive planning? What kind of agencies should be included? What are the conditions of possibility for these agencies to perform social innovation? Indeed, more questions might emerge, and in my view, these questions necessarily emerge along with our attempts for understanding the existence and causally efficacious of both systemic incongruences and agential antagonism.
This keynote will take place as part of the NIÖ Network Meeting on April 25 and 26, 2024, organized by the Chair of Critical Development Studies under the direction of Professor Dr. Martina Padmanabhan.
Since more than 20 years the NIÖ network met annually to present current research, related to inspired by or officially questioned by New Institutional Economics = NIÖ. At the heart of this informal, but nevertheless persistent and fruitful network sits the concept “Institutions of Sustainability” (IoS) (Hagedorn et al. 2002, Hagedorn 2003, 2008). Meanwhile many members of the network have ventured into new directions, disciplines and organizational contexts. Therefore, we aim to take stock of the diverse intellectual developments and conceptual innovations related to institutions governing sustainability endeavors. This will take place by presenting latest research, but also by articulating the shared ancestry in institutional analysis and by carving out the pathways of how collective and individual thinking has evolved. Thus, we aim to widen the perspectives and at the same time articulate the important influences of Commons research, Environmental Economics, Feminist Political Ecology, Multispecies approaches, Degrowth, Polycentricity among others.
We look forward to your participation in the Passau Research Colloquium.