Imaginaries: The Ideational Foundation of Sustainability Transitions DOI Creative Commons
Maximilian Benner

Tijdschrift voor Economische en Sociale Geografie, Journal Year: 2025, Volume and Issue: unknown

Published: April 8, 2025

Abstract Imaginaries have (again) become a fashionable concept in economic geography and particularly the of sustainability transitions, drawing on inspirations from neighbouring fields such as cultural political economy science technology studies. Understanding how agents imagine give meaning to changes their spatial context is important regional transitions. However, what precisely geographers transition scholars understand under term ‘imaginaries’ remains elusive risks becoming another fuzzy concept. This article offers sympathetic critique use imaginaries. To achieve nuanced conceptualization ideational foundation this understands imaginaries specific time/geography configurations, defined along two continuous dimensions (time geography), resulting four stylized, overlapping categories (imagined histories, imagined futures, places, spaces). closes with call for make more explicit they mean when writing about

Language: Английский

Governance of future-making: Green hydrogen in Namibia and South Africa DOI Creative Commons

Britta Klagge,

Benedikt Walker, Linus Kalvelage

et al.

Geoforum, Journal Year: 2025, Volume and Issue: 161, P. 104244 - 104244

Published: Feb. 28, 2025

Language: Английский

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Economic Geography and Planetary Boundaries: Embracing the planet’s uncompromising call to action DOI
Camilla Chlebna, Emil Evenhuis, Diana Morales

et al.

Progress in Economic Geography, Journal Year: 2024, Volume and Issue: 2(2), P. 100021 - 100021

Published: Aug. 28, 2024

Language: Английский

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6

Weaving a foundational narrative – place-making and change in an old-industrial town in East Germany DOI Creative Commons
Franziska Görmar

European Planning Studies, Journal Year: 2024, Volume and Issue: 32(11), P. 2338 - 2359

Published: May 17, 2024

In light of economic, social and discursive changes, old-industrial towns regions increasingly apply entrepreneurial strategies to actively shape discourses as part place-making processes. Foundational narratives play an important role in this regard. They are used by agents foster cohesion a local community, legitimize anchor their actions goals make sense complex development Applying the methodology Critical Narrative Analysis, present study zooms such processes narrative building Lauchhammer (Germany). Despite having experienced decline most parts its industry, actors still mobilize industrial past order strengthen identity attract new businesses manufacturers. Yet, paper shows that different foreground aspects may be contested. At same time, local, regional national closely interlinked offering 'opportunity spaces' for but raising also questions about potential (de)legitimization narratives.

Language: Английский

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4

Sustainable and inclusive development in left-behind places DOI Creative Commons
Maximilian Benner, Michaela Trippl, Robert Hassink

et al.

Review of Regional Research, Journal Year: 2024, Volume and Issue: unknown

Published: Sept. 24, 2024

Language: Английский

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4

Break, bridge or bolster? Participatory energy initiatives between frames and futures of local sustainability DOI Creative Commons
Johannes Suitner, Wolfgang Haider, Astrid Krisch

et al.

Journal of Environmental Policy & Planning, Journal Year: 2025, Volume and Issue: unknown, P. 1 - 15

Published: March 12, 2025

Language: Английский

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0

Ideas and ideation in geographical political economy DOI Creative Commons
Jamie Peck, Chris Meulbroek, Rachel Phillips

et al.

Progress in Human Geography, Journal Year: 2025, Volume and Issue: unknown

Published: March 18, 2025

Departing from an engagement with the “ideas school,” a case is constructed for (distinctively) geographical political economies of ideation, first on their own terms and then in dialogue three methodologically generative monographs. The power economic ideas, paper argues, not located supply-side alone, original texts, essentialized capacities or intrinsic qualities. These powers are realized situationally relationally, through conjuncturally mediated interactions translations. Since ideas associated powers, properties, potentials that contextual geohistorically specific, rather than universal, there distinctive mandate ideation.

Language: Английский

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Imaginaries: The Ideational Foundation of Sustainability Transitions DOI Creative Commons
Maximilian Benner

Tijdschrift voor Economische en Sociale Geografie, Journal Year: 2025, Volume and Issue: unknown

Published: April 8, 2025

Abstract Imaginaries have (again) become a fashionable concept in economic geography and particularly the of sustainability transitions, drawing on inspirations from neighbouring fields such as cultural political economy science technology studies. Understanding how agents imagine give meaning to changes their spatial context is important regional transitions. However, what precisely geographers transition scholars understand under term ‘imaginaries’ remains elusive risks becoming another fuzzy concept. This article offers sympathetic critique use imaginaries. To achieve nuanced conceptualization ideational foundation this understands imaginaries specific time/geography configurations, defined along two continuous dimensions (time geography), resulting four stylized, overlapping categories (imagined histories, imagined futures, places, spaces). closes with call for make more explicit they mean when writing about

Language: Английский

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0