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Making sustainability transitions in collaborative spaces of making: Exploring opportunities and limitations in Turin

“…The spaces where maker communities congregate range from nonprofit, community and didactic-based organizations to more entrepreneurially-oriented and profit seeking ventures (Browder et al, 2019;Cenere, 2021;Kurzeja et al, 2021;Mauroner, 2017;Schmidt & Brinks, 2017). Makerspaces, Fablabs, hackerspaces are "one of the most visible manifestation of an emergent maker culture" (Taylor et al, 2016:1).…”

Rethinking geographies of sovereignty: Towards a conceptual framework of situated sovereignty

“…; Bridge, 2021). Pragmatism also refers to debates on the applicability of actor–network theory to geographical subjects (Bridge, 2021; Cenere, 2021). Sovereignty practices also relate to the capability approach pioneered by Amartya Sen in the 1980s, which focuses on what people are effectively able to do.…”

“…We introduce situated sovereignty as a conceptual framework to better understand informal, ad hoc, and interventionist action grounded in local and regional practices of self-organisation and civic engagement to deal with contemporary challenges and resulting in hybrid governance arrangements that emerge over time and space. Our perspective is related to understandings of collective sense-making outside formalised democratically legitimised institutions, as discussed in the scholarly literature (Casey, 2018;Dittrich et al, 2014;Greenwood et al, 2019;Hinton, 2014;Hünefeldt & Schlitte, 2018;Janssen et al, 2015;Madsen & Josephsson, 2017).…”

“…Situated sovereignty refers to socio-cultural practices that are guided by "situational circumstances" (Casey, 2018), which place practical action above theoretical reasoning (Bartels et al, 2020;Bridge, 2021;Hünefeldt & Schlitte, 2018). "Theoretical reasoning" refers to relying on complex belief systems with collective forms of legitimisation, while practical reasoning is a process to modify intentions and beliefs.…”