ABSTRACT
Chapter 2 argued that policy processes are a complex confi guration of actors
and interests that have different opportunities for infl uencing and shaping policy
processes as they position themselves in the different sites in which policy mak-
ing takes place. In this chapter, particular attention is paid to the opportunities
that the emergence of new “policy spaces” offer for the engagement of those
conventionally excluded from policy deliberations. As discussed in Chapter 2,
policy spaces are moments of intervention or events that bring new opportuni-
ties to reconfi gure relationships between actors and open up possibilities for a
shift in direction. An examination of policy spaces gives us a better understand-
ing of the dynamics of power, agency, and knowledge in shaping water policy.
