ABSTRACT
This final chapter reflects on whether adopting a bricolage analysis offers reasons for hope or for despair. In short, a focus on reinvention demonstrates the workings of social structure and shows how processes of bricolage are disciplinary, shaping people's interactions in particular ways. The tradition of all dead generations weighs like a nightmare on the brains of the living. And just as they seem to be occupied with revolutionizing themselves and things, creating something that did not exist before, precisely in such epochs of revolutionary crisis they anxiously conjure up the spirits of the past to their service, borrowing from them names, battle slogans, and costumes in order to present this new scene in world history in time-honored disguise and borrowed language. Adopting a governance perspective to examine natural resource regimes helps to address the challenges of institutional analysis as it widens the gaze to incorporate plural, interlinked institutional arrangements and their outcomes.
