GGRA02H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Food Miles, Hydro One, Financialization
Document Summary
The newly emerging models of action resulting from the concerted combination of social actors coming from diverse milieus (private, public, civic) with the objective to influence systems of action in the direction of their interests. Governance refers to the ensemble of relations and processes through which everyday life, the economy, civil-society, the state and our relations to the environment are regulated and contested. The restructuring of the state since the 1970s opened up space" for a range of other actors to become involved in the delivery of different services and forms of decision making. Example: ontario government"s sale of hydro one and now the city of toronto"s proposed sale of toronto hydro. The state authors the devolution and outsourcing of responsibility, decision-making, and policy-delivery to a range of non-state or quasi-state actors. At its best, the concept of governance expands notions of political agency. The distance that food travels before we eat it: food miles .
