A few weeks ago I had the pleasure of giving a talk to a group of graduate students here @ the University of Waterloo. I drew on some of my previous research about social networks and discussed; what a social network perspective can, and cannot, tell us about power?
You can find the presentation here via slideshare.
Cheers!
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Rathwell- Social Networks & Relations of Power 13,2013
1. Social Networks and Relations
of Power
Kaitlyn Rathwell
Feb 26th 2013
University of Waterloo
2. Objective of talk
• Illustrate the use of SNA in a
sustainability context
• Explore how understandings of social
networks can provide insights on
relations of power
• Explore the limits of a social network
perspective to provide insights on
relations of power
4. Dimensions of Power
• Decision Making Power
• Non-Decision Making Power
• Ideological Power Lukes 2005
• Power as Coercion
• Power as Constraint
• Power as Concent Production
Raik et al. 2008
5. Network Science
Networks as:
•An approach to science/theory
•A set of methodologies
•A metaphor
Adopted/ Inspired by:
Michael Schoon (2011)
6. Social Network Analysis 101
Whole Network Position of
Measurements an actor
Density Clustering
Centrality &
Betweeness
actor
Centrality
Attributes of actor
(Attributes of
neighbors
actor actor)
9. How are municipalities socially
connected to manage water, given
that water ecologically connects
them?
social
Network of
Collaboration
Water
management
Activities
ecological Ecosystem Services
10. Methods
• Network - interviews; network
ties with whom (first-order,
second order)
• Water Management Activities:
interview, classification,
clarification
• Ecosystem Services – spatial
data; GIS; statistical analysis
11. Critical Role of Bridging
Organizations
Between Municipalities With Government and
NGO’s
12.
13. Are some Ecosystem Service Types More
Connected?
Total
Collaborations
Mean
p.value=
0.01347
Agricultural Municipalities Tourist Municipalities
95% Confidence
15. Do More Network collaborations mean
more Activities?
Municipality A Municipality B
Ego-Network Collaborations and Activities
Cc= 0.6286, p-value: 6.679e-05
R2=0.3952
17. How does this relate to
Power?
• Decision Making Power
• Central role of Bridging Organizations
• More activities done by well connected municipalities
• Non-Decision Making Power
• Some municipalities left completely out of management network
• Ideological Power
• ?
Lukes 2005
18. What a social network approach can and
cannot tell us about power…
From Rathwell and Plummer 2012
23. Works Cited
• Lukes, S. (2005). Power: a radical view. 2nd ed. Palgrave Macmillan,
New York.
• Raik, D. B., Wilson, A. L., & Decker, D. J. (2008). Power in Natural
Resources Management: An Application of Theory. Society & Natural
Resources, 21(8), 729–739.
• Rathwell, K. J., and G. D. Peterson. 2012. Connecting social networks
with ecosystem services for watershed governance: a social-ecological
network perspective highlights the critical role of bridging organizations.
Ecology and Society 17(2): 24.http
://dx.doi.org/10.5751/ES-04810-170224
• Rathwell, K. and Plummer, R. 2012. Exploring the roles of Social
Networks for Water Governance in New Brunswick, Canada: Lessons
from the Water Classification Policy Initiative. Brock University: St.
Catharines, ON.
Notas do Editor
In this presentation I draw on my masters research with Dr Garry Peterson (@ Stockholm Resilience Institute) as well as other projects where I have used social network analysis. I am not a political scientist, but in this presentation I discuss how a Social Network Perspective can help scholars and practitioners understand power dynamics and how, in turn, this influences environmental governance.
I draw on Lukes (2005) conceptualization of power in three dimensions. Different dimensions of power are also explored in Raik et al. 2008 in a natural resource management context
This slide was created by my colleague Steve Alexander and I for a presentation we gave at the University of Waterloo on SNA in natural resource governance.
So municipalities in the Monteregie want different things. Yet they share water. I divided municipalities into types using PCA and then making clusters gathering 67% of variability.
Here is the region of Quebec where I worked.
This image captures the social-ecological system orientation of my research.
These are all the Watershed organizations that I had the pleasure of interviewing in the summer of 2011.
How and what knowledge different knowledge systems share with eachother Different scales are interested in different knowledge (e.g. place based ice, vs global climate models) Different priorities dominate discourses at these different scales