ABSTRACT
This introductory chapter proposes the concept of everyday governance as an answer to the limitations of classical approaches to governance that generally overlook the messy processes underlying how governance is made and immersed into the everyday lives of people who are influenced by it. The everyday is also an entry door to an assemblage perspective, which allows us to think beyond single instruments and to engage with the complexity of everyday experiences of governance. The chapter introduces the main concepts related to assemblage thinking used in the book: assemblage, multiplicity, emergence, territorialisation, lines of flight. It also introduces the three case studies—IP-Suisse in Switzerland, Donau Soja across Europe, and RPPLH in Indonesia—and their use as an empirical anchoring for the theoretical considerations developed in this book.
