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Week 6 Flashcards

1
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Of what is just sustainability transition a combination?

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Just transition, sustainability transition, environmental justice

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2
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What processes does sustainability transition aim to do?

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Processes of transformative change that aim to:
- enable quality of life of present and future generations within ecological boundaries
- enable them not only to survive but also to thrive and flourish
- eliminate injustices that are trigggered or exacerbated by unsustainability and its underlying causes

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3
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Power theories vs. (9)
Contestations

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self-interested vs collective goals
structures vs agency
power over vs power to
centred vs diffused
consensual vs conflictual
constraining vs enabling
quanitity vs quality
power = knowledge power/= knowledge
empowerment vs disempowerment

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4
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3 faces of power

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  • beyond ruling elites
  • agenda setting power
  • pregerence shaping power
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5
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(de)/(re) centralization
Centred vs diffused

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decentralization in one place can lead to recentralization elsewhere

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6
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Panopticon
Constraining vs enabling

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overseeing building where you can not see the guard: bigbrother vibes

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7
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Types of power exercises (3)

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reinforce: (re)produce existing and new structures and institutions)
countervailing: challenge and dismantle existing structures
prefigurative: prefigure new ways of doing
Together it is transformative power

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8
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Transition management

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survival of the fittest, the x curve

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9
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power(lessness)

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the perception of powerlesness is a greater impediment to change than the power of vested interest

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10
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The x curve

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build up
break down
choas and non-linear
setting the state of transition and direction and speed
steps are not mutually exclusive or objectively quanitfied

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11
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X curve is a powerful tool for

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understanding systems
awareness and priority setting
supporting decision-making experiments
manage learning and institutional change

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12
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Types of knowledge

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system knowledge: on the system
normative knowledge: on the goals
transformative knowledge: critically thinking on path dependency and governance
action-oriented (x-curve beginning)

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13
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3 dimensions of Leftwich definition of politics

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materialities of transition politics
the dispersed nature of agency and power
the importance of historical and spatial context

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14
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Steps of breakdown

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optimization
destabilization
chaos
breakdown
phase out

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15
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Steps of build up

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experimentation
acceleration
emergence
institutionalization
stabilization

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16
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Beginning x curve break down

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getting locked in in incremental optimatization
external pressures that destabilize the system
path dependency

17
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Beginning x curve build up

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alternative ways of thinking (shielding)
creating external pressures
niche regimes are already the institutionalization

18
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Beginning x curve build up

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alternative ways of thinking
creating external pressures
increase in acceptance and visibility

19
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Steps in applying the x curve (9)

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  • defining system boundaries
  • discuss future vision
  • identifying transitions
  • reflect on transition dynamics
  • recap
  • identify interventions
  • reflect on interventions
  • main takeaways and follow up
20
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X curve main characteristics

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  • simplicity
  • versality
  • framing chaos as inherent to transitions (does not need to be avoided)
21
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Materialities of transition politics

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Transition involves socio-human relaities as well as technical tools and artifacts.
Located at dispersed geographies and every day social practices

22
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Locating dispersed agency and power

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Power is not concentrated at one level
- relational
- dispositional
- structural
- innovative
- transformative
- constitutive
–> nich-regime interaction is needed to speed up transition

23
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Contextualizing political processes

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The importance of historical and spatial context.
Strong state is needed:
- committed elites embedded in strong public institutions
- relative autonomy from capitalist economic interest
- promote innovation and hand out subsidies

24
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power over vs power to

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Relational power: you can only use power that you are relationally constituted to
Not mutually exclusive
power over: coercion and manipulation
power to: resistance and empowerment
power with: cooperation and learning

25
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Centered vs diffused

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first face: elite ruling group
second: elite agenda setting
third: preference shaping

Diffused: decentralized power that leads to more equality. A more unconscious power

26
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Consensual vs conflictual

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Be aware of conflicts that may be hidden behing seemingly consensual processes or the other way around.
- Power struggles and opression are manifested in consensual processes
- Conflictual processes are not necessarily oppressive and may help to challenge structures of domination and oppression

27
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Constraining vs enabling

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Lies the power more to the agent side (enabling) or the structure side (constraining and enabling)

28
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Quantity vs quality

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2 destinctions:
- resources that are mobilized
- different nature of power
–> reinforcive, countervailing, prefigurative/innovative, transformative (combination)

29
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empowerment vs disempowerment

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empowerment often comes with the unintended consequences of disempowerment

30
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power = knowledge, power =/ knowledge

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knowledge defines power or power defines knowledge
is there knowledge that is completely free of power?

31
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Markard: 4 frameworks to understand transition

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TM: theory + governance
SNM: shielding, nurturing, empowerment
TIS: link to sectoral and national IS, identifying drivers and barriers
MLP: pressure on regimes, opportunties, landscape

32
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5 concepts in modelling of transition

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Multi-level mechanism
Geographical sensitivity
Multi-phase dynamics
Co-evolutionary development
Social learning

33
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Rational of policy transitions with types of system failures

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  • transformational failure: direction
  • demand articulation failure: insufficiently developed market
  • policy coordination failure: more communication/coordination
  • reflexivity failure: inflexible and maladaptive systems

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