ABSTRACT
This chapter presents an evidence of the narrators' consciousness of structure and of how social structure works and further to that their understanding of how at times it can be exploited to serve specific purposes. It describes the structure and nature of power relations underpinning client decision-making on megaprojects. It then develops a typology of instruments of power to reveal the different ways stakeholders identify opportunities and constraints on megaproject decision-making and achieve various objectives through the exercise of various forms of power. Megaprojects have been recognised as important for rapidly developing countries seeking to build the infrastructure upon which their growth relies. The term life world encompasses the informal aspects of life which is the product of the relation between embodied actors and the cultures into which they are socialised. Rule literalness was raised as an instrument commonly used by the local government agencies to enforce project requirements.
