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: Received: 15 October 2024 / Approved: 17 October 2024 / Online: 18 October 2024 (16:38:07 CEST)
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Midlen, A. Rethinking Environmental Governance for Development: The Blue OEconomy Dispositive. Preprints2024, 2024101422. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202410.1422.v1
Midlen, A. Rethinking Environmental Governance for Development: The Blue OEconomy Dispositive. Preprints 2024, 2024101422. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202410.1422.v1
Midlen, A. Rethinking Environmental Governance for Development: The Blue OEconomy Dispositive. Preprints2024, 2024101422. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202410.1422.v1
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Midlen, A. (2024). Rethinking Environmental Governance for Development: The Blue OEconomy Dispositive. Preprints. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202410.1422.v1
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Abstract
The Blue Economy is a recent development paradigm, created in response to a refocusing of sustainable development during preparations for the UN Conference on Environment and Development in 2012 in which the ‘green economy’ was proposed. Coastal and island States called for a ‘blue’ equivalent. In the years since the ‘blue economy’ has been enthusiastically received by many, but its exact nature remains uncertain and contested. In this paper I examine in more detail the practices, the technologies, the materialities, of the BE ‘dispositif’ to address the question of ‘place’, as it is only in the context of place, I argue, that we can really understand how the Blue Economy is enacted. In doing so, I make the argument that the Blue Economy is a ‘security dispositif’ (referencing Michel Foucault) and that to govern Blue Economy places well, we need to pay attention to the emergent space-time relations of the dispositif ‘in place’. Finally, I argue for a rethinking of economy and of blue economy governance, drawing on relational analysis of empirical cases in Kenya to call for a blue economy that is more sensitive to communities and the places they inhabit – a blue œconomy.
Keywords
blue economy; dispositif; place; ocean governance; sustainable economy; development practice
Subject
Social Sciences, Geography, Planning and Development
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