Tools
Tools
Chilvers, Jason 
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9238-1653, Pallett, Helen ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5014-6356 and Hargreaves, Tom ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3764-7364
(2018)
Ecologies of participation in socio-technical change: The case of energy system transitions.
Energy Research & Social Science, 42.
pp. 199-210.
ISSN 2214-6296
Preview |
PDF (Published manuscript)
- Published Version
Available under License Creative Commons Attribution. Download (1MB) | Preview |
Abstract
Studies of societal engagement with socio-technical change are undergoing a systemic turn. Rather than simply viewing public engagement in science, policy and behavioural change in terms of discrete cases, key social theories in deliberative democracy, practice theory, socio-technical transitions and co-productionist scholarship in science and technology studies (STS) are moving to consider how diverse forms of participation interrelate in wider systems. In this paper we take stock of these advances to develop a conceptual framework for understanding ecologies of participation in socio-technical and democratic systems, grounded in relational co-productionist theory in STS. The framework is illustrated through empirical analysis of a systematic mapping of participation in UK energy system transitions between 2010 and 2015. This provides the first insights into system-wide patternings, diversities and inequalities of energy participation, the significant types of interrelation between practices of public engagement within wider ecologies of participation, and their mutual construction with political cultures and constitutions. The value and implications of adopting an ecologies of participation approach are considered with respect to the theoretical, empirical and practical challenges of understanding and building more inclusive, responsible and just socio-technical (energy) transitions.
| Item Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Uncontrolled Keywords: | public engagement,ecologies of participation,energy transitions,relational,systemic,sts co-productionist theory |
| Faculty \ School: | Faculty of Science > School of Environmental Sciences University of East Anglia Research Groups/Centres > Theme - ClimateUEA |
| UEA Research Groups: | Faculty of Science > Research Groups > Science, Society and Sustainability Faculty of Science > Research Centres > Centre for Social and Economic Research on the Global Environment (CSERGE) Faculty of Science > Research Groups > Centre for Ocean and Atmospheric Sciences Faculty of Science > Research Groups > Environmental Social Sciences |
| Related URLs: | |
| Depositing User: | Pure Connector |
| Date Deposited: | 13 Apr 2018 09:30 |
| Last Modified: | 20 Mar 2023 10:45 |
| URI: | https://ueaeprints.uea.ac.uk/id/eprint/66758 |
| DOI: | 10.1016/j.erss.2018.03.020 |
Downloads
Downloads per month over past year
Actions (login required)
 |
View Item |