Governance Archaeology: Research as Ancestry

Federica Carugati; Nathan Schneider

doi:10.1162/daed_a_01985

Governance Archaeology: Research as Ancestry

Federica Carugati, Nathan Schneider

Political Economy

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This essay presents the idea of governance archaeology, an approach to learning from the past to inform the politics of the future. By reporting on a prototype historical database, we outline a strategy for co-producing a global commons of collective governance practices that can inspire institutional learning and experimentation, particularly in the face of rapid technological change and vexing global crises. Em-bedded in our approach is an orientation of ancestry whereby practitioners cultivate relationships of accountability and responsibility to the legacies they learn from, recognizing the harm from past patterns of exploitation. By taking seriously a wide range of historical governance practices, particularly those outside the Western can-on, governance archaeology seeks to expand the options available for the design of more moral political economies.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	245-257
Number of pages	13
Journal	Daedalus
Volume	152
Issue number	1
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1162/daed_a_01985
Publication status	Published - 1 Dec 2023

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