The political economy of car dependence: A systems of provision approach

Mattioli, Giulio; Roberts, Cameron; Steinberger, J.; Brown, Andrew

doi:10.1016/j.erss.2020.101486

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“…To foreground knowledge infrastructures, then, is to foreground not only the future of the world, but our own role in it. Without paying attention to these elements, we are left to the project akin to building electric cars without roads or ways of life that support them (Mattioli et al, 2020;Morgan, 2020), or advocating Open Access without acknowledging how status inequalities intersect with the valuation of academic labour (Bacevic & Muellerleile, 2018). In other words, not only do we fail to engage with the material 'base' of knowledge production, we fail to acknowledge the ways not thinking about certain forms of material and immaterial labour precludes certain kinds of political futures.…”

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Unthinking knowledge production: from post-Covid to post-carbon futures

Baćević

2020

Globalizations

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The past years have witnessed a growing awareness of the role of institutions of knowledge production in reproducing the global climate crisis, from research funded by fossil fuel companies to the role of mainstream economics in fuelling the idea of growth. This essay argues that rethinking knowledge production for post-carbon futures requires engaging with the codetermination of modes of knowing and modes of governing. The ways in which knowledge production is embedded in networks of global capitalism shapes how we (can) think about the future. The essay argues for an attentivity to the material and infrastructural sides of knowledge production, which will enable us to rethink transition to post-carbon futures in ways that recognize the deep structural, spatial and social inequalities underpinning knowledge production.

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Section: Discussionmentioning

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Unthinking knowledge production: from post-Covid to post-carbon futures

Baćević

2020

Globalizations

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“…Provision of car infrastructure, cardependent land-use patterns, (under) provision of public transport (see Mattioli et al 2020).…”

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“…These can be analytically distinguished, although they are deeply and recursively related. We draw heavily here on other work from the same research project discussed here (Mattioli et al 2020), where we explored this topic from a political economy perspective, categorizing the contributions of Mattioli et al and adding other elements into our satisfier orders.…”

Section: A Short Story Of Escalation: the Case Of Carsmentioning

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Understanding (and tackling) need satisfier escalation

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Mattioli

Lamb

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Sustainability: Science, Practice and Policy

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Contemporary consumption patterns, embedded in profit-maximizing economic systems, are driving a worsening socio-ecological crisis, in particular through the escalating production and consumption of goods with high material and/or energy intensity. Establishing minimum and maximum standards of consumption (or "consumption corridors") has been suggested as a way to address this crisis. Consumption corridors provide the normative basis for sustainable consumption, that is, enough consumption for individuals to satisfy needs, but not too much to collectively surpass environmental limits. Current consumption patterns (especially in the global North) do not yet fall within consumption corridors, and standards are not fixed over time. Consumption is socially constructed and can escalate due to socioeconomic, technological, or infrastructural influences. In this article, we propose a framework to understand such escalating trends. This approach can be used as a tool for comprehending how consumption evolves over time, as well as for identifying the most effective leverage points to intervene and prevent escalation from happening in the first place. We build on theories of human-need satisfaction and combine these conceptual understandings with insights from research on socio-technical provisioning systems, sociological approaches to consumption, and perspectives on infrastructure lock-in. We illustrate our framework by systemically considering escalation for a specific technological productthe private car.

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“…In terms of Table 1, it can be postulated that the pandemic may indeed precipitate the disintegration of the socio-technical system boundaries, which will be key to deconstructing the constituent features of the 'car dependent transportation system' identified by Matiolli et al [42].…”

Section: Socio-technical Transitions and The Significance Of Crisismentioning

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Automobilities after SARS-CoV-2: A Socio-Technical Perspective

Wang

Wells

2020

Sustainability

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This paper presents an analysis, informed by socio-technical transitions theory and the socially derived concept of automobility, of the impact of the SARS-CoV-2 virus and resulting COVID-19 pandemic on automobility in Europe. The paper argues that the concept of a pervasive, sudden, and powerful crisis has not previously be explored in the socio-technical transitions literature. The strong behavioural changes in physical and virtual mobility associated with the pandemic are argued to be particularly significant, representing a ‘living lab’ in which to explore the possibilities for disintegrating the boundaries of the automobility system, thereby breaking the enduring structures and practices that have enabled automobility to remain largely unchallenged in the policy arena. Change processes previously underway in the automotive industry and in automobility are not impacted equally by the pandemic. We present initial evidence that mobility sharing will reduce, while the acceptance of electric cars will increase. However, it is also concluded that the hegemony of private automobility is not in itself threatened by pandemic outcomes.

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The political economy of car dependence: A systems of provision approach

Cited by 344 publications

References 157 publications

Unthinking knowledge production: from post-Covid to post-carbon futures

Unthinking knowledge production: from post-Covid to post-carbon futures

Understanding (and tackling) need satisfier escalation

Automobilities after SARS-CoV-2: A Socio-Technical Perspective

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