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- Title
Theorizing power in transition studies: the role of creativity and novel practices in structural change.
- Authors
Hoffman, Jesse
- Abstract
An important theoretical challenge for theorizing about power dynamics in societal transitions is the transformation of power itself. In this respect, it is especially puzzling how agency at the level of novel practices can extend beyond the habitual, how it can draw on structures and destructure at the same time and in doing so, how it might emerge both as a creative and a destructive force. This article addresses this puzzle by scrutinizing and refining multi-level conceptions of power in the field of transitions studies. In the first part, it explores one specific multi-level framework by Grin and Van Tatenhove in a longitudinal case study of wind energy projects in Denmark and establishes that it has four conceptual short-comings-relating to (1) temporality; (2) relationality; (3) materiality; and (4) creativity-that this article claims to overcome in the second part. In order to so, it draws on several practice theories for an extended framework that enables the unpacking of the interplay between creativity and transition processes.
- Subjects
DENMARK; POWER (Social sciences); SOCIAL change; CREATIVE ability; AGENCY theory; WIND power; SOCIAL theory; NUCLEAR energy; REFRAMING (Business); GOVERNMENT policy
- Publication
Policy Sciences, 2013, Vol 46, Issue 3, p257
- ISSN
0032-2687
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1007/s11077-013-9173-2