Embedding imaginaries- electric vehicles in Sweden's fossil fuel free future

Mutter, Amelia

doi:10.1016/j.futures.2021.102742

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“…Scholarship on socio-technical imaginaries draws attention to the processes and outcomes of various scientific interventions in public life, such as smart cities; big data, datafication, artificial intelligence, or algorithmic governance; biomedical, geneticization, and bioethics; and science in public policy, expertise and elitism, to name a few areas (Shelton, 2017; Miller, 2020; Wijermars, 2022; Bach and Krolokke, 2020). While geography, environmental studies and STS scholars are closely aligned with their use of socio-technical imaginaries to explore diverse empirical topics (e.g., Burnham et al., 2017; Cousins, 2020; Jönsson et al., 2022; Mutter, 2021; Tozer and Klenk, 2018), debates on energy transition especially draw heavily on socio-technical imaginaries as an analytical lens.…”

Section: Rancière Political Communication and Sociotechnical Imaginariesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Energizing dissensus: Socio-technical (counter) imaginaries along the China–Pakistan Economic Corridor

Mehmood,

Cousins

2024

Environ Plan D

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The China–Pakistan Economic Corridor is a featured project of China’s Belt and Road Initiative that is creating new resource frontiers in Tharparkar, Pakistan. Centered around coal mining and energy production, these new sites of resource extraction and their infrastructures have sparked dissensus throughout the Desert district of Sindh, Pakistan. Our analysis draws on research on socio-technical imaginaries and Rancière’s thoughts on political change and aesthetics. In doing so, we examine how political dissensus is represented though graffiti and works in contrast to the socio-technical imaginaries represented by the state in public signage. The differences, we suggest, represent socio-technical counter imaginaries that form a politics that disrupts the established socio-political order embedded within the political goals of the China–Pakistan Economic Corridor. These counter imaginaries have important implications for the creation of just and equitable opportunities for people impacted by the emerging coal extraction and power generation complex. Our ethnographic approach provides a street-level analysis of the politicization of imagined socio-technical futures in the Tharparkar desert and emerging energy resource frontiers.

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Section: Rancière Political Communication and Sociotechnical Imaginariesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Energizing dissensus: Socio-technical (counter) imaginaries along the China–Pakistan Economic Corridor

Mehmood,

Cousins

2024

Environ Plan D

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“…The Stockholm City Government has launched a development named -Vision Stockholm 2030‖ to plan for Stockholm's long-term sustainability. Stockholm has set a goal to become a fossil-free city by 2050 [41]. The transformation of Stockholm into a resource-efficient zone is one of the 2030 vision's main goals [42].…”

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A Review of Municipal Waste Management with Zero Waste Concept: Strategies, Potential and Challenge in Indonesia

Wikurendra¹,

Abdeljawad²,

Zs.‐Nagy³

2023

IJESD

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Municipal waste management is still a significant problem for solid waste issues in Indonesia. Only 60 to 70% of the waste generated is disposed of in landfills, the rest is dispersed in different areas. The potential for leachate pollution, greenhouse gases, and a waste of non-renewable natural resources can occur due to municipal waste management problems not being optimal. Municipal waste management needs a holistic concept that would include upstream to downstream stages. This paper comprehensively reviews municipal waste management with a zero waste concept based on management, development, measuring, implementations, strategies, potentials, and challenges in Indonesia. The zero waste concept offers waste management, starting with waste elimination, recycling, reduction, and recovery of used goods. Several municipalities around the globe, such as Canberra, Adelaide (Australia), Stockholm (Sweden), Nova-Scotia (Canada), and San Francisco (United States), have decided on targets for zero waste cities. Indonesia is still implementing waste management that accentuates disposal in landfills, so there needs to be a literature study related to the management, development, measuring, implementations, strategies, potentials, and challenges of Indonesia’s zero waste concept.

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“…One of these instances is consultation rounds where policy proposals are scrutinised and commented on by various stakeholders before becoming formal regulations. Such consultation processes constitute fruitful empirical sites for studying conflicting imaginaries (Mutter, 2021). However, such imaginaries are only partly articulated in policy documents or other discursive accounts.…”

Section: Conceptualising Socio-materials Struggles: Socio-technical I...mentioning

confidence: 99%

Technopolitics of future-making: The ambiguous role of energy communities in shaping energy system change

Envall

Rohracher

2023

Environment and Planning E: Nature and Space

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Implementing the EU Clean Energy Package (CEP) and its provisions for strengthening energy communities – the cooperative production and management of energy at local level by citizens, a concept emphasising citizen participation and empowerment – has opened a new arena for contestations over energy futures in Sweden. An aim of CEP is to contribute to just energy transitions through citizen participation and democratisation by using the potential of energy communities to reconfigure socio-material relations of the energy system. However, different actor constellations claim interpretative privilege about the role and importance of energy communities in a low-carbon future. To better understand political contestations over energy futures, we unpack broader discursive patterns and their socio-material enactments related to legally define and regulate the operation of energy communities in Sweden. Through the analytical lens of socio-technical imaginaries and technopolitics, we explore struggles over energy futures within conduits of institutionalised policymaking and attempts by energy communities to navigate technopolitical barriers in relation to grid infrastructure, power relations, actor constellations, rules and regulations and knowledge claims. We find that energy communities are not easily accommodated to the dominant socio-technical imaginary of Sweden’s energy future. What is at stake in processes related to the transposition of the CEP into national law is essentially different political ideas of how society should be organised.

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Embedding imaginaries- electric vehicles in Sweden's fossil fuel free future

Cited by 13 publications

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Energizing dissensus: Socio-technical (counter) imaginaries along the China–Pakistan Economic Corridor

Energizing dissensus: Socio-technical (counter) imaginaries along the China–Pakistan Economic Corridor

A Review of Municipal Waste Management with Zero Waste Concept: Strategies, Potential and Challenge in Indonesia

Technopolitics of future-making: The ambiguous role of energy communities in shaping energy system change

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