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The sub-theme is interested in understanding how we govern for good life within wider society. We seek to explore the new divisions of responsibility between the public and private actors and their governance interactions, and how they can be designed and devised to bring about better future including resilience, equality and well-being of people and planet.

We have only begun to understand how these different layers, mechanisms and outcomes of the governance interactions influence each other and are embedded in different contexts. This sub-theme asks what we can learn of the legacy of governing to better respond to current global challenges, and how the current governance legacies restrict or enable good life for all.

We invite scholars to explore these softer and harder forms of governance and their interactions, and how those will enhance or hinder the good life for all in a sustainable world. We are especially interested in finding new theoretical avenues to examine the interactions, competition or struggles (whichever way framed), and offering new insights to their contribution to the management of ongoing grand challenges such as gender inequality, poverty, the loss of biodiversity or climate change. However, we also invite rich contextual understandings in how these interactions are embedded in and in reciprocal relations with the empirical realities they are situated in.

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