When Urbanization Leads to Governance Beyond the State: Network of Actors Along an Urbanization Gradient in Bengaluru, India
The rapid growth and expansion of cities in the global South has altered the values, perceptions, actor groups and thus dominant institutional and governance structures influencing management and access of local common pool resources. In this paper, we explore how urban transformation and changes in...
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| description | The rapid growth and expansion of cities in the global South has altered the values, perceptions, actor groups and thus dominant institutional and governance structures influencing management and access of local common pool resources. In this paper, we explore how urban transformation and changes in governance have influenced interactions of actors involved in commons (lake) management, with selected cases along an rural-urban gradient in the Greater Bengaluru Metropolitan Region (GBMR). We map the actors, actively and directly involved in lake management, and the interactions between them along an interconnected series of lakes, to identify five broad types of interactions: cooperation, conflict, competition, resistance and passive acceptance. Visualising the network of actors along the gradient, we highlight that the actor networks are fragmented based on municipal boundaries. We find that there is an increase in the non-state actors as we move along the rural-urban gradient highlighting diverse forms of polycentric governance arrangement with urbanisation. We find passive acceptance and resistance as predominant forms of interactions in rural areas and cooperation in urban areas. We find that with an increase in non-state actors there has been a shift from a state of dependence to a state of engagement between communities and the state actors leading to governance beyond the state. |
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| spelling | doaj-art-e2e4ba5ce4754f3993781bab9c2317b72025-08-20T02:55:54ZengUtrecht University Library Open Access Journals (Publishing Services)International Journal of the Commons1875-02812025-02-0119167–8267–8210.5334/ijc.13691249When Urbanization Leads to Governance Beyond the State: Network of Actors Along an Urbanization Gradient in Bengaluru, IndiaArvind Lakshmisha0https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5882-7260Harini Nagendra1https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1585-0724Azim Premji UniversityAzim Premji UniversityThe rapid growth and expansion of cities in the global South has altered the values, perceptions, actor groups and thus dominant institutional and governance structures influencing management and access of local common pool resources. In this paper, we explore how urban transformation and changes in governance have influenced interactions of actors involved in commons (lake) management, with selected cases along an rural-urban gradient in the Greater Bengaluru Metropolitan Region (GBMR). We map the actors, actively and directly involved in lake management, and the interactions between them along an interconnected series of lakes, to identify five broad types of interactions: cooperation, conflict, competition, resistance and passive acceptance. Visualising the network of actors along the gradient, we highlight that the actor networks are fragmented based on municipal boundaries. We find that there is an increase in the non-state actors as we move along the rural-urban gradient highlighting diverse forms of polycentric governance arrangement with urbanisation. We find passive acceptance and resistance as predominant forms of interactions in rural areas and cooperation in urban areas. We find that with an increase in non-state actors there has been a shift from a state of dependence to a state of engagement between communities and the state actors leading to governance beyond the state.https://account.thecommonsjournal.org/index.php/up-j-ijc/article/view/1369rural-urbanurban transformationcooperationpassive acceptancecommons governance |
| spellingShingle | Arvind Lakshmisha Harini Nagendra When Urbanization Leads to Governance Beyond the State: Network of Actors Along an Urbanization Gradient in Bengaluru, India International Journal of the Commons rural-urban urban transformation cooperation passive acceptance commons governance |
| title | When Urbanization Leads to Governance Beyond the State: Network of Actors Along an Urbanization Gradient in Bengaluru, India |
| title_full | When Urbanization Leads to Governance Beyond the State: Network of Actors Along an Urbanization Gradient in Bengaluru, India |
| title_fullStr | When Urbanization Leads to Governance Beyond the State: Network of Actors Along an Urbanization Gradient in Bengaluru, India |
| title_full_unstemmed | When Urbanization Leads to Governance Beyond the State: Network of Actors Along an Urbanization Gradient in Bengaluru, India |
| title_short | When Urbanization Leads to Governance Beyond the State: Network of Actors Along an Urbanization Gradient in Bengaluru, India |
| title_sort | when urbanization leads to governance beyond the state network of actors along an urbanization gradient in bengaluru india |
| topic | rural-urban urban transformation cooperation passive acceptance commons governance |
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