Proposing a Cultural Evolutionary Perspective for Dedicated Innovation Systems: Bioeconomy Transitions and Beyond

Schlaile, Michael P.; Kask, Johan; Brewer, Joe; Bogner, Kristina; Urmetzer, Sophie; Witt, Annick De

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“…Fictional expectations are at the interface of subjective and collective imagination ( Beckert, 2018 ) and are a product of society's imaginaries that have culturally evolved and express normative knowledge of how societies should deal with social or ecological issues (cf. de Witt et al, 2017 ;Schlaile et al, 2017Schlaile et al, , 2021. While accounting for imaginaries (as social structures at the discursive level) and fictional expectations (as tacit knowledge at the individual level), we add "narratives" as empirically accessible modalities that occupy a middle ground between the former two.…”

Section: Imagined Futures and The Bioeconomic Transitionmentioning

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Bioeconomic fiction between narrative dynamics and a fixed imaginary: Evidence from India and Germany

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Keck

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Sustainable Production and Consumption

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Bioeconomic ideas and visions have received increasing attention from scientists and policy makers to address socioecological challenges. However, the role of imagined futures in the design of bioeconomic innovations and transitions has hitherto been widely neglected. In this study, we therefore explore the role of imaginaries of the future to understand how they shape bioeconomic innovations and transitions. We thereby build on insights from economic sociology and compare two distinct case studies from Germany and India. Based on our results, we inductively develop an analytic model that describes the coconstitution of imaginaries, fictional expectations, narratives, and innovation dynamics. Our results show that narrative dynamics are caused by irritations in the political and discursive landscape; these irritations prompt economic actors to stabilize, adapt, or reject their own bioeconomic conceptions, while the underlying imaginary of a technological fix remains fixed. We discuss this reductionist imaginary and instead plead for an imaginary of a socioecological fix that reintertwines technologies with their underlying societal, cultural, and ecological factors. We conclude that this will support sustainability scholars and policy makers in remaining vigilant against premature mental and institutional lock-ins that could lead to a colonization of the future with severe negative implications for society's ability to mitigate and adapt to global environmental change in the future.

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Section: Imagined Futures and The Bioeconomic Transitionmentioning

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Bioeconomic fiction between narrative dynamics and a fixed imaginary: Evidence from India and Germany

Friedrich

Najork

Keck

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Sustainable Production and Consumption

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“…Reckwitz 2021). In addition, theories from sustainability transition literature (such as the different transition pathways of Geels and Schot (2007), or the cultural evolution of a sustainable bioeconomy, (e.g., Schlaile et al 2021) show that different innovations (which can be part of different trajectories) can also complement each other and cumulatively shift existing regimes. This possibility would mean that the different trajectories are a symptom of an ongoing transformation rather than necessarily resulting in concrete (escalatory) conflicts.…”

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Preservation, modernization, and transformation: contesting bioeconomic imaginations of “manure futures” and trajectories toward a sustainable livestock system

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In discourses on sustainability, its underlying conceptualizations and meanings, the role of imaginations and their influence on concrete social practices and mutually dependent sociomaterial structures have been overlooked. Therefore, our article uses Adloff and Neckel’s (Sustain Sci 14(4):1015-1025, 2019) conceptual framework to explore the role of imaginations in generating different trajectories from a concrete environmental problem, namely issues attributed to manure surpluses in Germany, to assess the hurdles and conflicting goals of a transformation toward a sustainable livestock system. Our study builds on qualitative, semistructured, and problem-centered interviews with both new innovation actors and incumbent actors in the current system. Our results show that different trajectories of “manure futures” exist, as we identify “preservation”, “modernization” and “transformation” as trajectories representing ideal types of change. We discuss the results in light of the theory of imaginations and reflect on the usefulness of the concept of imaginations for analyzing environmental discourses and practices. Furthermore, we find that normative framings of problems rather than factual knowledge describe contesting imaginations as barriers to sustainability transformations, a point that must be acknowledged when developing a sustainable livestock system. We conclude that contesting imaginations could result in conflicts that must be moderated as drivers for change yet could also point to transformations that are already underway.

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“…Cultures are formed through the result of long co-evolutionary processes (Schlaile, et al, 2021) that while deeply ingrained in our day-to-day lives, are easily forgotten. The TD approach starts by unwrapping the historical dynamics through which a wicked problem emerged to identify the most likely future trajectories currently in prospect.…”

Section: Identifying the Current Relationship To The Riversmentioning

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Towards Regenerative Cultures and Metanarratives in Girona: A Transition Narrative-Design Case Study

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2022

Ciências Socialmente Aplicáveis: Integrando Saberes E Abrindo Caminhos VII

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Proposing a Cultural Evolutionary Perspective for Dedicated Innovation Systems: Bioeconomy Transitions and Beyond

Cited by 9 publications

References 105 publications

Bioeconomic fiction between narrative dynamics and a fixed imaginary: Evidence from India and Germany

Bioeconomic fiction between narrative dynamics and a fixed imaginary: Evidence from India and Germany

Preservation, modernization, and transformation: contesting bioeconomic imaginations of “manure futures” and trajectories toward a sustainable livestock system

Towards Regenerative Cultures and Metanarratives in Girona: A Transition Narrative-Design Case Study

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