Stakeholderperspektivet och utestängandet av det politiska: Om stakeholderperspektivets begränsade möjligheter att förändra miljöpolitiken

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In contemporary global environmental governance stakeholding, as a means for defining legitimate participants in democratic decision-making, has become of great importance. In this essay I deploy the concept of ?the stakeholder perspective? to denote arguments that all stakeholders ? defined as carriers of particular interests ? should be able to participate in political decision-making affecting their interests. The purpose of the essay is to analyze the stakeholder perspective?s potential to change environmental politics. Departing from the philosophy of Heidegger, I develop a theoretical approach that separate the concept of the political from that of politics. The political is defined as a process in which society is instituted and can be conceived of as a process in which a particular demand is transformed into a stand-in for a universal demand. Politics is defined as a sphere of social reality that is the manifest result of the political. I also argue that politics is often organized in a way that displaces the political. Since the logic behind the stakeholder perspective, per definition, renders the universalization of the particular impossible, I argue that it should be conceived of as displacing the political. Since a realization of the political is necessary for fundamental ch...