ABSTRACT
This chapter discusses power, agency, and desire within the everyday agri-environmental governance by examining the interplay between individual, collective, and distributive agency. The chapter asserts that what connects the notion of power and agency is desire, emanating not only from human actors, but also from non-human elements and even the assemblage itself. Desire drives elements to either co-functioning or breaking away (or both). In the three empirical cases, we argue that not only does agency shape an assemblage, but the assemblage itself shapes how individual agency is manifested, such as through the power of a document, a label, meetings, or data.
