Axes of contestation in sustainability transitions
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Axes of contestation in sustainability transitions. / Madsen, Stine ; Miörner, Johan; Hansen, Teis.
In: Environmental Innovation and Societal Transitions, Vol. 45, 2022, p. 246-269.Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article › Research › peer-review
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T1 - Axes of contestation in sustainability transitions
AU - Madsen, Stine
AU - Miörner, Johan
AU - Hansen, Teis
PY - 2022
Y1 - 2022
N2 - Research in sustainability transitions increasingly acknowledges that the structural characteristics of socio-technical systems differ. However, little attention has been paid to the specific transition dynamics that can result from this structural variation. In response, this paper develops a framework for studying transition dynamics that takes the structural characteristics of socio-technical systems and their influence on agency into account. We introduce the concept contestation axis to highlight alternative potential interfaces between functional solutions in a socio-technical system. We argue that considerable agency and frictions between actors can play out at other axes than between established regimes and emerging niches. Our conceptual framework is applied to a case study in the waste sector. We explore how the growing influence of the circular economy triggers misalignment between multiple socio-technical configurations in the Danish waste sector. In the case, we zoom in on three actual frictions that have manifested along different contestation axes.
AB - Research in sustainability transitions increasingly acknowledges that the structural characteristics of socio-technical systems differ. However, little attention has been paid to the specific transition dynamics that can result from this structural variation. In response, this paper develops a framework for studying transition dynamics that takes the structural characteristics of socio-technical systems and their influence on agency into account. We introduce the concept contestation axis to highlight alternative potential interfaces between functional solutions in a socio-technical system. We argue that considerable agency and frictions between actors can play out at other axes than between established regimes and emerging niches. Our conceptual framework is applied to a case study in the waste sector. We explore how the growing influence of the circular economy triggers misalignment between multiple socio-technical configurations in the Danish waste sector. In the case, we zoom in on three actual frictions that have manifested along different contestation axes.
U2 - 10.1016/j.eist.2022.11.001
DO - 10.1016/j.eist.2022.11.001
M3 - Journal article
VL - 45
SP - 246
EP - 269
JO - Environmental Innovation and Societal Transitions
JF - Environmental Innovation and Societal Transitions
SN - 2210-4224
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