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Mitchell Centre Seminar Series

Dates:14 March 2018
Times:17:00 - 18:30
What is it:Seminar
Organiser:School of Environment, Education and Development
Who is it for:University staff, Adults, Alumni, Current University students
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Moira Faul and Jordan Tchilingirian, Université de Genève

Multi-stakeholder partnerships and the structuring of spaces between fields

Multi- stakeholder partnerships were given new impetus in ‘Agenda 2030’ which requires ‘bringing together Governments, civil society, the private sector, the United Nations system and other actors’ (UN: General Assembly, 2015). Much existing literature treats partnerships as either normatively appropriate or instrumentally useful organisational models. Rather than conceptualising partnerships as a stable model in which differently-located partners may engage, the authors use Eyal's (2011) theorisation of ‘spaces between fields’ which are co-constructed by partners.

To examine these emerging spaces as they institutionalise, it is vital to examine partnering processes as connecting diverse partners from established fields. Partnership Boards are at the sharp end of partnering activities, bringing together partners representing diverse logics, professional expertise, and values. Therefore, the authors used network analysis (specifically, the Interlocking Directorates approach) to investigate the relationships among partners across several global financing partnerships for the Sustainable Development Goals (including agriculture, climate change, education, health, and water).

This analysis revealed that Board members from donors (state, private and multilateral) were more connected within the partnership space than other stakeholders. This would indicate the importance of historical relations of power and the privileging of certain types of expertise and knowledge in the emerging institutionalisation of partnerships. This article contributes an innovative theoretical framing to studies of partnerships and extends the insights of Eyal’s approach. By focussing on the actual relationships that sustain and structure spaces between fields, the authors demonstrate how initial conditions and power disparities in constituent fields are translated and imprinted into emergent liminal spaces.

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