Engaging with the politics of sustainability transitions

Meadowcroft, James

doi:10.1016/j.eist.2011.02.003

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“…Rival firms often cooperate to collectively manipulate the institutional context to legitimize and gain access to resources necessary for collective survival …" From the perspective of an emerging TIS, this "manipulation" involves building legitimacy, creating positive expectations and influencing the adoption of regulations that shield markets and nurture innovations (Konrad et al, 2012;Smith and Raven, 2012;Ulmanen, 2013). For that purpose, engagement not only by political actors but also by actors from emerging TISs and social movements is required (Meadowcroft, 2011). An institutional alignment may even necessitate that political ideologies are influenced as these shape the understanding of acceptable solutions, including the appropriate role of government.…”

Section: Interaction Between a Focal Tis And The Political Contextmentioning

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Technological innovation systems in contexts: Conceptualizing contextual structures and interaction dynamics

Bergek

Hekkert

Jacobsson

et al. 2015

Environmental Innovation and Societal Transitions

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This paper addresses interactions between technological innovation systems (TIS) and wider "context structures". While TIS studies have always considered various kinds of contextual influences, we suggest that the TIS framework can be further strengthened by a more elaborated conceptualization of TIS context structures and TIS-context interactions. For that purpose, we identify and discuss four especially important types of context structures: technological, sectoral, geographical and political. For each of these, we provide examples of different ways in which context structures can interact with a focal TIS and how our understanding of TIS dynamics is enhanced by considering them explicitly. Lessons for analysts are given and a research agenda is outlined.

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Section: Interaction Between a Focal Tis And The Political Contextmentioning

confidence: 99%

Technological innovation systems in contexts: Conceptualizing contextual structures and interaction dynamics

Bergek

Hekkert

Jacobsson

et al. 2015

Environmental Innovation and Societal Transitions

450

348

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“…All constitute future research directions, as does work on understanding the inter-relationships of policy, politics and socio-technical change (Meadowcroft 2011), particularly in relation to the emergence and diffusion of CPIs. Similarly there is scope for work on how social policy and institutional innovations affect socio-technical change, particularly in contexts of derived demand, transport being one.…”

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“…Another issue involves ho transitions research. While the need for supportive policies has been emphasised (Smith et al 2005), the transitions literature has been criticised for treating policy and politics as exogenous (Meadowcroft 2011). …”

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Climate policy innovation: a sociotechnical transitions perspective

Upham

Kivimaa

Mickwitz

et al. 2014

Environmental Politics

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Seeking to develop a novel understanding of how climate policy innovations emerge and spread, we conceptualize three types of CPIs genuinely original, diffusion based and reframing based and relate these to the socio-technical transitions literature, particularly the multi-level perspective that explains change through interaction between . Selected climate-related transport policies in Finland, Sweden and the United Kingdom are used to illustrate five hypotheses that connect these concepts from the multi-level perspective to particular types of climate policy innovation.O policy innovation may be uncommon in contexts with major sunk investments such as transport, principally because socio-technical regimes tend to be resistant to political pressures for change originating at the same level. Nonetheless, the Multi-level Perspective posits that regimes are subject to influence by pressures originating at both niche and landscape levels. Given that policy reframing is relatively common, it may offer a key entry point for climate policy innovation in the short to medium term.

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“…Shove and Walker 2007;Smith and Stirling 2007;Kern 2011;Meadowcroft 2009; cf. Geels et al 2013a), we can also see that the ways in which this is currently Putting Power in Transitions 591 being done miss the point.…”

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Putting the Power in ‘Socio-Technical Regimes’ – E-Mobility Transition in China as Political Process

Tyfield

2014

Mobilities

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A mobility low-carbon transition is a key issue both socially and for mobilities research. The multi-level perspective (MLP) is justifiably a leading approach in such research, with important connections to high-profile socio-technical systemic analyses within the mobilities paradigm. The paper explores the key contributions that a Foucauldianinspired cultural political economy offers, going beyond central problems with the MLP, specifically regarding: a productive concept of power that affords analysis of the qualitatively novel and dynamic process of transition; and the incorporation of the exogenous 'landscape' into the analysis. This move thus resonates with growing calls for attention to power dynamics in mobilities research and a 'structural' turn. In making this case, we deploy the key case study of contemporary efforts towards mobility transition in China. This not only sets out more starkly the importance of MLP's gaps but also provides an empirical case to illustrate, albeit in the form of informed speculation, possible routes to low-carbon urban mobility transition and the inseparability from broader qualitative power transitions at multiple scales, including the global.

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Engaging with the politics of sustainability transitions

Cited by 677 publications

References 21 publications

Technological innovation systems in contexts: Conceptualizing contextual structures and interaction dynamics

Technological innovation systems in contexts: Conceptualizing contextual structures and interaction dynamics

Climate policy innovation: a sociotechnical transitions perspective

Putting the Power in ‘Socio-Technical Regimes’ – E-Mobility Transition in China as Political Process

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