期刊
THEORY CULTURE & SOCIETY
卷 31, 期 5, 页码 21-40出版社
SAGE PUBLICATIONS LTD
DOI: 10.1177/0263276414531627
关键词
climate change; electricity; incumbent regimes; resistance; transitions
资金
- EPSRC [EP/K011790/1] Funding Source: UKRI
- Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council [EP/K011790/1] Funding Source: researchfish
While most studies of low-carbon transitions focus on green niche-innovations, this paper shifts attention to the resistance by incumbent regime actors to fundamental change. Drawing on insights from political economy, the paper introduces politics and power into the multi-level perspective. Instrumental, discursive, material and institutional forms of power and resistance are distinguished and illustrated with examples from the UK electricity system. The paper concludes that the resistance and resilience of coal, gas and nuclear production regimes currently negates the benefits from increasing renewables deployment. It further suggests that policymakers and many transition-scholars have too high hopes that green' innovation will be sufficient to bring about low-carbon transitions. Future agendas in research and policy should therefore pay much more attention to the destabilization and decline of existing fossil fuel regimes.
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