Transnational linkages in sustainability experiments: A typology and the case of solar photovoltaic energy in India

Wieczorek, Anna; Raven, Rob; Berkhout, Frans

doi:10.1016/j.eist.2015.01.001

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“…Wieczorek et al. () became part of this emerging “geography of transitions” literature by embracing a multi‐scalar approach to understanding the processes of transnational sustainability transitions. Raven et al.…”

Section: Socio‐technical Transitionsmentioning

confidence: 99%

The geography of socio‐technical transitions: Transition–periphery dynamics

Munro

2019

Geographical Journal

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The literature on socio‐technical transitions analyses multi‐scale, nonlinear changes in societal systems, but has tended to ignore the geography of these changes. This paper addresses this gap by focusing on a geographical periphery, rather than on the urban core, and considers a transition–periphery framework to provide a way to conceptualise and examine the dynamics of resource peripheries within a socio‐technical transition. The concepts of socio‐technical transitions and resource peripheries have been connected in previous work examining wind energy projects in Scotland. This study extends that work by refining its framework, explicitly drawing from the concept of peripheralisation as a process, and applying the framework to a wider set of contexts. The focus of peripheralisation is on the processes involved in creating peripheries rather than simply the periphery as a geographic location. This attention to peripheralisation uncovers the multi‐dimensional, relational, and multi‐scalar relationships and processes of the dynamics within resource peripheries during a socio‐technical transition. This paper draws on a set of energy policy case study sites in Scotland, including the North Yell Tidal Scheme, the proposed Shetland interconnector, and the Cruachan and Coire Glas Pumped Hydro schemes. It argues that transition–periphery dynamics are an effective analytical tool for understanding the geographically uneven multi‐scalar dynamics created as socio‐technical transitions occur.

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Section: Socio‐technical Transitionsmentioning

confidence: 99%

The geography of socio‐technical transitions: Transition–periphery dynamics

Munro

2019

Geographical Journal

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“…The thinking on worlding and provincialisation holds equal but different potential, given that Transition Studies has begun considering transition dynamics beyond the global North (e.g., Romijn et al, ; Wieczorek et al., ). This work has engaged with insights from development studies but neither with post‐colonial thinking on the ordinary city (Robinson, ) nor with critiques of the neo‐colonial relationships between theory and the field, according to which sites scattered across the South effectively produce data for theories formulated in northern academic institutions (McCann et al, ).…”

Section: Transition and Human Geographymentioning

confidence: 99%

Thinking complex interconnections: Transition, nexus and Geography

Schwanen

2017

Trans Inst British Geog

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More than ever is Geography surrounded by interdisciplinary movements claiming expertise with regard to the interconnections among nature, society and technology. These movements ask questions from Geography and geographers about if and how they can contribute to those movements and what form collaboration might take. This paper analyses Human Geography's interactions with research on sustainability transitions since the early 2000s to think through future interactions between Geography and research on the water–energy–food nexus. It shows that concepts, ideas, logics and methods have travelled from Human Geography into Transition Studies but that exchange between them has so far been partial and asymmetrical. Arguing that common ideas about how interdisciplinarity can be encouraged might be insufficient to change this situation, the paper develops ideas from Stengers, Whitehead, Foucault and others to explain the relations between Human Geography and Transition Studies in terms of modes of abstraction in an evolving ecology of power relations. It makes a case for slowing down modes of abstraction and proposes some ideas for slow collaborative research on sustainability transitions in contact zones. Implications for how Geography and geographers might engage with interdisciplinary nexus research are outlined.

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“…The case-study based approach has been the general approach in transition studies, but Sengers et al (2016) suggest that new approaches dealing with multiple experiments form a promising research direction in this field. Building on work of Wieczorek, Raven, & Berkhout, (2015), Castán Broto & Bulkeley (2013), and Van den Heiligenberg et al, (2017), this paper contributes to transition literature by showing how a larger number of experiments can be studied and how this reveals some insights into the magnitude and direction of change.…”

Section: Smart Mobility Experiments For Transformative Changementioning

confidence: 99%