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SUMMARY:Influencing industrial facility compliance in rapidly developing c
 ountries: Provincial practices of wastewater discharge monitoring and insp
 ection\, and responses to development agency capacity building in Vietnam 
 - Marta Lang
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CONTACT:Eszter
DESCRIPTION:My PhD research subjects are provincial officials attempting t
 o normalise\, and generate compliance with\, industrial wastewater dischar
 ge laws in four rapidly developing provinces in and around Hanoi Vietnam\,
  where polluting production systems proliferate and non-compliance is comm
 onplace. Fieldwork concluded in April focused on practices\, procedures an
 d planning for engagement with polluting facilities by three units (the mo
 nitoring\, inspection\, and environmental protection unit) of the environm
 ent department in each province. I interviewed 46 officials\, and used ‘
 diary exercises’ alongside ‘a monitoring files exercise’ to yield ex
 amples of practice. Canadian and Japanese development agencies worked with
  officials in three of the four provinces until May 2013\, to encourage mo
 re strategic and consistent polluter inspections through adoption of proto
 cols\, information recording formats (databases and forms) and prioritisat
 ion criteria. I gathered extensive development agency documentation and in
 terviewed consultants.\n\nI am now piloting a data coding framework emergi
 ng out of theoretical ideas about organisations drawn from: sociological i
 nstitutionalism and performativity theory\, the communities of practice li
 terature on how practice evolves within teams (and how it can be influence
 d)\, and thinking around how material artefacts (such as standard operatin
 g procedures and forms) shape practice. The corresponding analytical appro
 ach treats the articulation of multiple logics\, partial uptake of structu
 ring artefacts\, divergence from standard procedures and un-used sections 
 of forms\, as particularly instructive. As responses to the development as
 sistance\, officials’ conceptions of ‘room for improvement’\, what i
 s taken up as useful\, and what they do ‘their way’ will be explored. 
 This talk aims to spark discussion on the theory underpinning this approac
 h.\n
LOCATION:Seminar Room (Department of Geography\, Downing Site)
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