Abstract:It is generally accepted that the concept of sustainability is not straightforward, but is subject to ongoing ambiguities, uncertainties and contestations. Yet literature on sustainability transitions has so far only engaged in limited ways with the resulting tough questions around what sustainability means, to whom and in which contexts. This paper makes a contribution to this debate by unpacking sustainability in India and Thailand in the context of solar photovoltaic and urban mobility experimentation. Buil… Show more
“…What can be regarded as sustainable is of course contextdependent and reflects local values and priorities (Raven et al, 2017), but our findings illustrate that the values associated with the sustainability of ridesharing in Indonesia and the Philippines are greatly overshadowed by concerns of traffic congestion and economic growth. Our identified frames do not explicitly illustrate how to conceive the environmental contribution of ridesharing, but instead limited elements of sustainabily are implicitly evoked when ridesharing is presented as an attempt to solve the inefficiency problem and as offering a more affordable and reliable alternative.…”
Section: Ridesharing As (Un)sustainable Alternativementioning
Few studies on ridesharing have so far been conducted in developing countries. To explore this, the present paper presents a frame analysis of news content on ridesharing platforms in Indonesia and the Philippines. We identify five distinct frames, perceiving ridesharing as a (1) commuter solution, (2) unregulated public transport service, (3) cooperative business, (4) non-conformity solution, and (5) informal livelihoods. We show how these frames emerge from a particular developing-economy context characterized by gridlock problems in densely populated cities, the utilization of "informal transport" as a gap-filler, and an emphasis on collectiveness. The paper furthermore argues that the identified frames shape different policy responses to ridesharing in Indonesia and the Philippines, which 1) address the absence of legal status; 2) ease traffic congestion. The paper concludes that these responses are driven primarily by commercial and legal concerns rather than sustainability concerns.
“…What can be regarded as sustainable is of course contextdependent and reflects local values and priorities (Raven et al, 2017), but our findings illustrate that the values associated with the sustainability of ridesharing in Indonesia and the Philippines are greatly overshadowed by concerns of traffic congestion and economic growth. Our identified frames do not explicitly illustrate how to conceive the environmental contribution of ridesharing, but instead limited elements of sustainabily are implicitly evoked when ridesharing is presented as an attempt to solve the inefficiency problem and as offering a more affordable and reliable alternative.…”
Section: Ridesharing As (Un)sustainable Alternativementioning
Few studies on ridesharing have so far been conducted in developing countries. To explore this, the present paper presents a frame analysis of news content on ridesharing platforms in Indonesia and the Philippines. We identify five distinct frames, perceiving ridesharing as a (1) commuter solution, (2) unregulated public transport service, (3) cooperative business, (4) non-conformity solution, and (5) informal livelihoods. We show how these frames emerge from a particular developing-economy context characterized by gridlock problems in densely populated cities, the utilization of "informal transport" as a gap-filler, and an emphasis on collectiveness. The paper furthermore argues that the identified frames shape different policy responses to ridesharing in Indonesia and the Philippines, which 1) address the absence of legal status; 2) ease traffic congestion. The paper concludes that these responses are driven primarily by commercial and legal concerns rather than sustainability concerns.
“…Their situatedness has to be empirically and conceptually explored (Karvonen & van Heur, 2014). A range of diversities may exist across perspectives of what experiments and their sustainabilities mean to whom and where (Raven et al, 2017). In fact, some have warned about the potential danger of engaging with an 'experimentation' discoursetransferring a 'context-independent' perspective of rigorous academic method in laboratory contexts to the real-life, place-specific context of urban life full of history and lived experiences (May & Perry, 2016).…”
Section: Urban Experimentation and Institutional Arrangementsmentioning
Currently little is known about how institutional arrangements coevolve with urban experimentation. This paper mobilizes neoinstitutional literature and recent urban experimentation literature as a framework to explore how and why institutional arrangements differ across urban contexts. Empirically the paper focusses on smart city initiatives in Amsterdam, Hamburg and Ningbo. These three cities are frontrunners in adopting a comprehensive smart city agenda, but they do so in different ways. The paper examines regulative, normative and cognitive elements of institutional arrangements, explores how they shape experimentation, and reflects on their place-based specificities. The comparative analysis suggests that the focus of, and approach to, experimentation can be understood as resting in a (possibly unique) combination of strategic agency and dynamics at multiple spatial scales.
ARTICLE HISTORY
“…In the sustainability transitions literature, the term 'transformation' is commonly used, loosely referring to 'wider', 'societal, 'gradual', 'large scale' 'structural change' processes (Sengers et al, 2016;Raven et al, 2017;Wieczorek et al, 2017). Many authors have used the notion of transformation and transitions interchangeably (Hölscher et al, 2017;Patterson et al, 2016).…”
Article (Accepted Version) http://sro.sussex.ac.uk Ghosh, Bipashyee and Schot, Johan (2019) Towards a novel regime change framework: studying mobility transitions in public transport regimes in an Indian megacity. Energy Research & Social Science, 51. pp. 82-95.
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