Article ID: CBB482828082

Imagining sustainable energy and mobility transitions: Valence, temporality, and radicalism in 38 visions of a low-carbon future (August 2020)

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Sovacool, Benjamin K. (Author)
Noam Bergman (Author)
Debbie Hopkins (Author)
Kirsten EH Jenkins (Author)
Sabine Hielscher (Author)
Andreas Goldthau (Author)
Brossmann, Brent (Author)


Social Studies of Science
Volume: 50
Issue: 4
Pages: 642-679


Publication Date: August 2020
Edition Details: Sociotechnical imaginaries: An accidental themed issue
Language: English

Based on an extensive synthesis of semi-structured interviews, media content analysis, and reviews, this article conducts a qualitative meta-analysis of more than 560 sources of evidence to identify 38 visions associated with seven different low-carbon innovations – automated mobility, electric vehicles, smart meters, nuclear power, shale gas, hydrogen, and the fossil fuel divestment movement – playing a key role in current deliberations about mobility or low-carbon energy supply and use. From this material, it analyzes such visions based on rhetorical features such as common problems and functions, storylines, discursive struggles, and rhetorical effectiveness. It also analyzes visions based on typologies or degrees of valence (utopian vs. dystopian), temporality (proximal vs. distant), and radicalism (incremental vs. transformative). The article is motivated by the premise that tackling climate change via low-carbon energy systems (and practices) is one of the most significant challenges of the twenty-first century, and that effective decarbonization will require not only new energy technologies, but also new ways of understanding language, visions, and discursive politics surrounding emerging innovations and transitions.

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Authors & Contributors
Sujatha Raman
Taebi, Behnam
Caroline White-Nockleby
Agustin Irizarry-Rivera
Shaw, Isabel
Efrain O'Neill-Carrill
Concepts
Energy resources and technologies
Technoscience; science and technology studies
Sustainability
Technology
Imaginaries
Renewable Energy Sources
Time Periods
21st century
20th century
20th century, late
19th century
Places
Great Britain
Virgin Islands (U.S.)
Western states (U.S.)
England
Puerto Rico
Wales
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