Environmental Innovation and Societal Transitions,
Journal Year:
2023,
Volume and Issue:
48, P. 100733 - 100733
Published: May 22, 2023
Through
European
colonialisms
spanning
five
centuries,
coloniality
–
as
intersectional
stratification
and
violence
directed
against
‘other
worlds’
has
been
central
to
the
making
of
modern
societies
worldwide.
However,
these
colonial
modernities
are
very
rarely
addressed
within
studies
on
sustainability
transitions.
This
dearth
attention
means
that
transitions
scholars
risk
failing
challenge
reproduction
colonially
accumulated
power
privilege
in
innovation
niche
development
processes.
Building
theoretical
insights
from
postcolonial
decolonial
studies,
alongside
multiple
other
strands
critical
social
theory,
we
conceptualise
six
dimensions
modernities.
These
are:
assumptions
comprehensive
‘superiority’;
appropriation
cultural
privileges;
assertions
military
supremacy;
enforcement
gendered
domination;
extension
controlling
imaginations;
expansion
toxic
extraction.
Interrogating
such
ways
can
help
unsettle
perhaps
remedy
injustices,
while
also
contributing
political
struggles
for
a
convivial
pluriverse
‘a
world
which
many
worlds
flourish
together
difference’.
Environmental Innovation and Societal Transitions,
Journal Year:
2023,
Volume and Issue:
48, P. 100763 - 100763
Published: Aug. 21, 2023
Policymakers
are
confronted
with
a
growing
urgency
to
act
upon
climate
change,
while
simultaneously,
justice
considerations
increasingly
foregrounded
in
discussions
on
energy
transition
policies.
Yet,
the
dynamics
between
and
transitions
not
well
understood.
In
this
study,
we
investigate
these
thoroughly
by
taking
stock
of
bridging
different
bodies
literature
urgency,
justice,
transitions.
We
found
main
be
enabling
jeopardizing.
Moreover,
there
is
much
nuance
within
dynamics.
find,
for
example,
that
policymaking
can
lead
perpetuation
injustice,
implementing
rapid
measures
also
tackle
injustice.
Our
analysis
advances
understanding
supports
policymakers
navigating
their
aim
just
transition.
Based
our
analysis,
outline
recommendations
research
policymaking.
Journal of Responsible Innovation,
Journal Year:
2024,
Volume and Issue:
11(1)
Published: July 9, 2024
Developing
earlier
work,
this
paper
explores
analytic
and
political
implications
of
ideas
about
direction
in
innovation.
Unduly
hidden
mainstream
innovation
sustainability
transformations
literatures,
crucial
issues
arise
for
responsible
Although
essential
to
both
rigour
effectiveness,
key
realities
tend
be
concealed
by
general
hegemonic
forces
contemporary
global
colonial
modernity,
as
well
more
specific
expediencies
power
privilege
particular
settings.
To
help
resist
these
obscuring
pressures,
three
contrasting
(frequently
conflated)
meanings
are
distinguished.
Directing
involves
driving
narrow
motivating
processes
towards
some
given
end.
The
concerns
broader
steering
pathways
openly
chosen
ends.
Directionality
entails
grasping
deeper
potentialities
spanning
pluralities
Seriously
eroding
policy
research
alike,
much
current
governance
activity
fails
appropriately
focus
or
act
on
distinctions.
assist
greater
robustness
legitimacy,
points
important
(but
often
neglected)
practises
each
regard.
properly
address
social
ecological
imperatives,
attention
is
advocated
irreducibly
aspects
This
renewed
emphasis
not
only
precaution,
participation
accountability,
but
actively
supporting
emancipatory
struggle
plural
'directions
progress'
democracies.
Environmental Innovation and Societal Transitions,
Journal Year:
2024,
Volume and Issue:
50, P. 100812 - 100812
Published: Jan. 21, 2024
Despite
a
broad
consensus
on
sustainability,
conflicts
are
increasingly
prevalent
in
sustainability
transitions.
Although
these
significantly
influence
transition
dynamics
and
socio-ecological
futures,
the
role
of
transitions
remains
insufficiently
addressed.
This
paper
aims
to
elucidate
contested
by
merging
political
ecology's
emphasis
conflicts,
nature,
power,
justice
with
Gramscian
hegemony
theory.
The
integrated
framework
ecology
enables
analysis
as
struggles
for
terrain
society-nature
relations
amid
ecological
crises.
A
brief
comparative
study
coal
South
Africa
Germany
serves
illustrate
key
insights
that
offers
into
nature
transitions,
including
conflict
dynamics,
power
strategies,
barriers
potentials
radical
transformative
change.
Annual Review of Environment and Resources,
Journal Year:
2024,
Volume and Issue:
49(1), P. 519 - 547
Published: Aug. 27, 2024
Facing
the
world's
ecological,
economic,
and
social
challenges
requires
us
to
connect
concepts
of
justice,
sustainability,
transitions.
Bridging
discussing
heterogeneous
fields,
we
argue
that
these
need
complement
each
other,
present
just
sustainability
transitions
(JUSTRAs)
do
so.
To
define
JUSTRAs,
review
state-of-the-art
literature,
focusing
on
understanding
three
their
pairings
in
various
disciplinary
fields
empirical
settings
(e.g.,
environmental
transitions,
energy
food
urban
justice).
We
center
marginalized
voices
highlight
processes
radical
transformative
change
JUSTRAs
seek.
offer
analytical
lenses
further
JUSTRAs:
politics,
power,
prefiguration.
complementary
are
necessary
remake
world
both
critical
pragmatic
ways.
Finally,
a
research
agenda
foregrounding
modes
inquiry:
analyzing,
critiquing,
designing.
The Journal of Peasant Studies,
Journal Year:
2022,
Volume and Issue:
49(5), P. 945 - 968
Published: June 30, 2022
As
the
drive
for
global
electrification
proceeds,
new
pressures
are
placed
on
agrarian
environments
in
areas
abundant
key
minerals
electric
batteries.
The
so-called
lithium
triangle
between
Chile,
Argentina
and
Bolivia
is
one
of
those
places.
We
develop
an
account
'assemblages
extractivism'
at
work
this
zone
that
operate
a
material,
institutional
discursive
level.
Drawing
fieldwork
from
region
conceptualized
using
different
strands
political
ecology
economy,
we
explore
how
construction
commodity,
materiality
role
state
intersect
with
local
understandings
engagements
latest
form
'renewable
extractivism'.
Environmental Innovation and Societal Transitions,
Journal Year:
2024,
Volume and Issue:
50, P. 100821 - 100821
Published: Feb. 6, 2024
Leading
figures
in
sustainability
transitions
stress
the
need
for
approaches
from
other
fields.
A
particular
blind
spot
is
role
of
culture
and
meaning
transitions.
This
paper
introduces
concept
“religious
repertoires”
as
a
means
better
understanding
what
enables
inhibits
social
change.
Existing
research
on
religion
focuses
either
religions
or
benefits
broadly
“religious”
“spiritual”
outlook.
In
contrast,
I
propose
that
all
societies,
institutions,
practices,
no
matter
how
secular
rational,
can
be
understood
through
lens
religious
repertoires
they
perform.
While
we
are
not
religious,
do
engage
shape
our
possible
desirable.
Attending
to
these
offers
people
richer
of:
themselves
interest
them;
factors
enable
inhibit
transitions;
govern
Environmental Innovation and Societal Transitions,
Journal Year:
2023,
Volume and Issue:
49, P. 100775 - 100775
Published: Sept. 21, 2023
Social
innovation
is
gaining
attention
as
a
pivotal
dimension
of
socio-technical
transitions
with
renewable
energy
prosumerism
prominent
example.
However,
this
example
also
highlights
that
social
evokes
concerns
about
purposes,
beneficiaries,
normative
dilemmas
and
legitimacy.
This
paper
addresses
recent
calls
to
confront
the
perceived
'dark
sides'
innovations.
As
debates
on
these
dark
sides
often
get
stuck
in
either
naive
optimism
or
paralyzing
critique,
investigates
how
theory
can
inform
nuanced
understandings.
The
key
concept
directionality.
analysis
shows
it
conceptualizes
manifestations
path
dependence,
disempowering
ideological
'landscape'
factors,
internal
contradictions
within
institutionally
complex
regimes,
niche-regime
dialectics,
transition
phases.
Rather
than
proposing
particular
position,
presents
heuristic
supports
well-considered
engagement
sides.
Energy Research & Social Science,
Journal Year:
2024,
Volume and Issue:
114, P. 103571 - 103571
Published: May 10, 2024
Transitions
and
transformations
literature
signals
the
need
for
radical
large-scale
changes
more
sustainable
futures.
In
addition
to
plural
nuanced
understandings
of
these
concepts
change,
we
engage
with
how
do
this
type
research,
whom.
We
ask:
How
might
research
based
on
responsibility,
relationality,
reciprocity
change
range
possible
outcomes
transitions
transformations,
towards
just
leading
equitable
inclusive
outcomes?
Our
own
response
question,
humbly
lay
bare
our
experiences
as
white
Canadian
settler
academics
still
learning
from
(not
speaking
for)
Indigenous
colleagues.
frame
around
pillars
invite
you
consider
can
incorporate
practices
in
your
research.
end
invitation
questions
derived
reflections.
intention
is
open
up
discussion,
collectively
expand
transformation
Frontiers in Sustainable Food Systems,
Journal Year:
2023,
Volume and Issue:
7
Published: June 28, 2023
A
sustainability
transition
(ST)
of
the
agri-food
system
(AFS)
is
necessary
due
to
manifold
environmental
and
social
exigencies.
Scholars
widely
refer
multi-level
perspective
(MLP)
in
analysis
those
transitions.
The
fast
pace
articles
covering
AFS
transitions,
evolving
research
on
spaces
between
three
levels,
consisting
unclear
conceptualization
MLP
levels
call
for
a
systematic
update
literature
utilizing
ST.
As
basis
reporting,
this
review
uses
Preferred
Reporting
Items
Systematic
Reviews
Meta-Analyses
(PRISMA).
search
was
conducted
database
Scopus
encompassing
period
from
2018
2022.
After
selection
procedure,
58
were
included
review.
We
extracted
data
based
combination
concept-driven
data-driven
coding
scheme.
Qualitative
approaches
outweigh
interrelated
activities
within
are
being
analyzed,
predominantly
agricultural
sectors.
focus
lays
ongoing
concept
its
direction
considered
as
given
(e.g.,
through
case
lens),
without
further
elaborations.
niche
constitutes
most
prominent
object
study
scholars
rather
socially
innovative
than
technological
innovations,
providing
distinct
views
radicality
strategies
breakthrough.
space
regime
presented,
with
slightly
conceptualisations.
Actors
both
collaborate
exert
transformative
power.
presented
static
but
also
more
vividly
demonstrated.
landscape
receives
least
attention
immaterial
characteristics.
Combinations
other
frameworks
have
proven
useful,
instance,
regarding
elaborations
agency
level.
Generally,
an
persists,
lacking
theoretical
elaboration.
Further
applying
should
aim
deeper
examination
construct,
especially
terms
landscape.
More
quantitative
or
mixed-methods
could
supplement
current
dominating
qualitative
by
testing
validating
qualitatively
constructed
theories
phenomena.
