ABSTRACT
In this chapter, we dig deeper into the issue of power/knowledge relations in resource communities. We investigate how a central place for natural resource governance in a community can shape power/knowledge dynamics and what this can mean for the capacity to discern and organize alternative futures. We also address the exclusionary effects in terms of actors, residents and forms of local and expert knowledge in governance and we discuss what happens if resource governance becomes privatized, taking the form of resource management. We draw on Michel Foucault directly, but also on the way Foucault has been incorporated in recent versions of public policy and administration and in evolutionary governance theory.
