2024
DOI: 10.1093/cjres/rsae021
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‘Mattering’ the circular economy: tackling the Achilles’ heel of sustainable places via adopting a critical-relational perspective

Aksel Ersoy,
Arnoud Lagendijk

Abstract: The transition towards a circular economy (CE) is seen as vital for developing sustainable places. CE is used as a new buzzword, as well as an inducement to innovate and change socio-economic practices, by a diverse set of actors to meet sustainability and other goals. Genuine transformation, we argue here, requires those practices to seriously alter discourses and metrics. We adopt a material critical-relational perspective, drawing on the assemblage notion of (counter)actualisation. Our contribution is both … Show more

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