Researching climate change and community in neoliberal contexts: an emerging critical approach

G Taylor Aiken, L Middlemiss, S Sallu… - Wiley …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
In a 2011 contribution to this journal, Walker examined the ways that community is routinely
employed in carbon governance, suggesting the need for more critical approaches. Here …

Game-changers and transformative social innovation

F Avelino, JM Wittmayer, R Kemp, A Haxeltine - Ecology and Society, 2017 - JSTOR
This editorial introduces the special feature on the role of game-changers, broadly
conceptualized as macro-trends that change the “rules of the game,” in processes of …

[HTML][HTML] On the road to urban degrowth economics? Learning from the experience of C40 cities, doughnut cities, Transition Towns, and shrinking cities

Y Khmara, J Kronenberg - Cities, 2023 - Elsevier
Cities have special importance and the potential to serve as places for social, economic, and
ecological transition experiments. They create organisations and networks to collectively …

Societal transformation through the prism of the concept of territoire: A French contribution

C Pachoud, K Koop, E George - Environmental Innovation and Societal …, 2022 - Elsevier
Driven by the need for radical change in our practices and values to escape crises, studies
on sustainability transitions have multiplied in recent years. Such radical transformations are …

Towards an 'alternative'geography of innovation: Alternative milieu, socio-cognitive protection and sustainability experimentation

N Longhurst - Environmental Innovation and Societal Transitions, 2015 - Elsevier
This paper highlights the hitherto unrecognised role of 'alternative'places in protecting
different forms of sustainability innovation. The paper uses the concept of an alternative …

[KNYGA][B] An introduction to population geographies: Lives across space

HR Barcus, K Halfacree - 2017 - taylorfrancis.com
An Introduction to Population Geographies provides a foundation to the incredibly diverse,
topical and interesting field of twenty-first-century population geography. It establishes the …

Alter-childhoods: Biopolitics and childhoods in alternative education spaces

P Kraftl - Annals of the Association of American Geographers, 2015 - Taylor & Francis
In this article, I consider “alter-childhoods”: explicit attempts to imagine, construct, talk about,
and put into practice childhoods that differ from perceived mainstreams. I critically examine …

The economic crisis as a game changer? Exploring the role of social construction in sustainability transitions

D Loorbach, F Avelino, A Haxeltine, JM Wittmayer… - Ecology and …, 2016 - JSTOR
Continuing economic turbulence has fuelled debates about social and political reform as
much as it has stimulated actions and initiatives aimed at a more fundamental transition of …

[HTML][HTML] From protected spaces to hybrid spaces: mobilizing A place-centered enabling approach for justice-sensitive grassroots innovation studies

HL Lai - Environmental Innovation and Societal Transitions, 2023 - Elsevier
Sustainability transitions research to date has paid insufficient attention to the intrinsic
benefits of grassroots innovations (GIs) in disadvantaged contexts and to issues of structural …

Alternative economies, digital innovation and commoning in grassroots organisations: Analysing degrowth currencies in the Spanish region of Catalonia

X Balaguer Rasillo - Environmental policy and governance, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
The wake of the 2008 financial crisis wrought economic havoc in Spain, resulting in the
widespread protest of the indignados movement. Catalonia in particular saw a flourishing of …