The issue of governance is among the most debated. While there is a consensus on a 'minimal' notion of governance as the changing organisational set-up of society, the progressive expansion of formal and informal regimes based on interaction, partnership and co-operation between public and private actors or the self-regulation of the latter, there is disagreement on the judgement regarding the analytical productivity of the concept and the way in which the phenomena to which it refers should be interpreted. Is it something designed or accidental? Does it designate new opportunities for 'piloting' society or an acephalous processuality? Does it denote new relationships or social disintegration? Does it essentially denote new phenomena and processes, such as network connections, deterritorialisation of social ties, political decentralisation, or does it also reformulate old issues, such as power, inequality, exclusion? What are the factors behind the new governance arrangements? How are they legitimised? How and by whom should their efficiency be measured?The perspective suggested here to confront such questions is that of governance as 'interface'. Whichever way one looks at it, governance entails a profound rearticulation of social relations. Unlike the often evoked notion of 'coordination', however, the idea of interface signals the problematic nature, the potential instability and ambivalence of this rearticulation. If governance constitutes an interweaving of shifting and conflicting logics of action, to what extent does it produce integration rather than juxtaposition or overlap? To what extent are governance arrangements able to respond to the problems of efficiency-effectiveness, cognitive deficiency and social fragmentation from which they originate? The contributions hosted in this issue of the journal address this issue by combining theoretical reflection with empirical evidence and by looking at major issues, from European to urban governance, from the role of information flows in environmental policies to patenting in the biomedical field, from the risks of genetically modified agriculture to the participatory assessment of science and technology.
Il tema della governance è tra i più dibattuti. Se vi è consenso su una nozione “minimale” di governance quale mu¬tato assetto organizzativo della società, progressiva espansione di regimi formali e informali basati su interazione, partnership e coo-perazione tra attori pubblici e privati o l’autoregolazione di questi ultimi, vi è invece dissenso sul giudizio circa la produttività analitica del concetto e il modo in cui vanno interpretati i fenomeni cui esso si riferisce. Si tratta di qualcosa di progettato o casuale? Designa nuove opportunità di “pilotaggio” della società o una processualità acefala? Indica nuovi rapporti o disgregazione sociale? Denota essenzialmente fenomeni e processi inediti, come connessioni di rete, deterritorializzazione dei legami sociali, decentralizzazione politica, o riformula anche vecchie questioni, come potere, disuguaglianza, esclusione? Quali sono i fattori retrostanti ai nuovi assetti di governance? Come si legittimano? Comee da chi ne va misurata l’efficienza? La prospettiva qui suggerita per confrontarsi con tali quesiti è quella della gover-nance come “interfaccia”. Da qualsiasi punto di vista la si guardi, la governance comporta una profonda riarticolazione delle relazioni sociali. Diversamente dalla nozione spesso evocata di “coordinamento”, l’idea di interfaccia segnala tuttavia la problematicità, la potenziale instabilità e ambivalenza di tale riarticolazione. Se la governance costituisce un intreccio di logiche d’azione mutevoli e contrastanti, in quale misura essa produce integrazione piuttosto che giustapposizione o sovrapposizione? Fino a che punto gli assetti di governance sono in grado di rispondere ai problemi di efficienza-efficacia, carenza cognitiva e frammentazione sociale da cui traggono origine? I contributi ospitati in questo numero della rivista affrontano il tema abbinando riflessione teorica e riscontro empirico e guardando a problematiche di primo piano, dalla governance europea a quella urbana, dal ruolo dei flussi informativi nelle poli-tiche ambientali alla brevettazione in campo biomedico, dai rischi dell’agricoltura geneticamente modificata alla valutazione partecipata della scienza e della tecnologia.
Governance come interfaccia. Presentazione
PELLIZZONI, LUIGI
2005
Abstract
The issue of governance is among the most debated. While there is a consensus on a 'minimal' notion of governance as the changing organisational set-up of society, the progressive expansion of formal and informal regimes based on interaction, partnership and co-operation between public and private actors or the self-regulation of the latter, there is disagreement on the judgement regarding the analytical productivity of the concept and the way in which the phenomena to which it refers should be interpreted. Is it something designed or accidental? Does it designate new opportunities for 'piloting' society or an acephalous processuality? Does it denote new relationships or social disintegration? Does it essentially denote new phenomena and processes, such as network connections, deterritorialisation of social ties, political decentralisation, or does it also reformulate old issues, such as power, inequality, exclusion? What are the factors behind the new governance arrangements? How are they legitimised? How and by whom should their efficiency be measured?The perspective suggested here to confront such questions is that of governance as 'interface'. Whichever way one looks at it, governance entails a profound rearticulation of social relations. Unlike the often evoked notion of 'coordination', however, the idea of interface signals the problematic nature, the potential instability and ambivalence of this rearticulation. If governance constitutes an interweaving of shifting and conflicting logics of action, to what extent does it produce integration rather than juxtaposition or overlap? To what extent are governance arrangements able to respond to the problems of efficiency-effectiveness, cognitive deficiency and social fragmentation from which they originate? The contributions hosted in this issue of the journal address this issue by combining theoretical reflection with empirical evidence and by looking at major issues, from European to urban governance, from the role of information flows in environmental policies to patenting in the biomedical field, from the risks of genetically modified agriculture to the participatory assessment of science and technology.File | Dimensione | Formato | |
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