Abstract Contributing to the debates about how and why petroleum resource governance regimes develop and change, this paper explores how competing discourses from different scales influence policy formulation processes and foster change. Discourses frame the problems and dictate the spectre of possible solutions, thus having social consequences in ‘the real world’. Exploring the example of the recent experiences of petroleum resource governance in Tanzania, the analysis shows how discourses of petroleum resource governance adjust in interaction with other aspects of the specific national context in which resource governance occurs. The requirements of good governance found in the literature and international policy initiatives are coupled with a call for industrialisation. The inheritance from Nyerere; the experiences with the mining sector; and a high degree of distrust for foreign companies take the petroleum resource governance in the direction of resource nationalism. Designing an alternative policy agenda, the Tanzanian government has found a room to manoeuvre.

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石油资源治理的塑造和变化：坦桑尼亚的天然气话语

摘要为探讨有关石油资源治理制度如何以及为何发展和变化的争论，本文探讨了不同规模的竞争性话语如何影响政策制定过程并促进变革。话语构架了问题并指示了可能解决方案的幽灵，从而在“现实世界”中产生了社会后果。以坦桑尼亚石油资源治理的最新经验为例，分析表明，石油资源治理的话语如何与发生资源治理的特定国家环境的其他方面相互作用而进行调整。文献和国际政策倡议中对善政的要求与对工业化的呼吁相结合。来自尼雷尔的继承；采矿业的经验；对外国公司的高度不信任使石油资源治理朝着资源民族主义的方向发展。坦桑尼亚政府在设计替代性政策议程时，已经找到了操纵的空间。