Governance of Sociotechnical Transformations

Publications

Academic Publications

Polzin, C. (2024) The role of visions in sustainability transformations: Exploring tensions between the Agrarwende vanguard vision and an established sociotechnical imaginary of agriculture in Germany. Global Environmental Change 84, 102800. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2024.102800

Beck, S. (2019). Coproducing Knowledge and Politics of the Anthropocene: The Case of the Future Earth Program. In: F. Biermann, E.Lövbrand (Eds.), Anthropocene Encounters: New Directions in Green Political Thinking (pp. 191-211). Cambridge University Press. https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108646673

Beck, S., Forsyth, T. (2020). Who gets to imagine transformative change? Participation and representation in biodiversity assessments. Environmental Conservation, 1-4. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0376892920000272

Beck, S., Jasanoff, S., Stirling, A., Polzin, C. (2021): The governance of sociotechnical transformations to sustainability. Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability 49, 143-152

Beck, S., Oomen, J. (2021). Imagining the corridor of climate mitigation – What is at stake in IPCC’s politics of anticipation? Environmental Science & Policy 123, 169-178

Cairns, R., Johnstone, P., Onyango, J., Stirling, A. (2021). Transforming Imaginations? Multiple dimensionalities and temporalities in transformations to sustainability (3.3 MB). A work-in-progress paper for the T2S project on Governance of Sociotechnical Transformations (GOST)

Cairns, R., Onyango, J., Stirling, A., & Johnstone, P. (2022). Imagining urban transformation in Kenya. Environmental Science & Policy, 135, 86–95. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envsci.2022.04.016

Carton, W., Asiyanbi, A., Beck, S., Buck, H., Lund, J. (2020). Negative emission and the long history of carbon removal. Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Climate Change 11(6), e671. https://doi.org/10.1002/wcc.671

Díaz-Reviriego, I., Turnhout, E., Beck, S. (2019). Participation and inclusiveness in the Intergovernmental science–policyplatform on biodiversity and ecosystem services. Nature Sustainability, 2(6), 457-464. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41893-019-0290-6

Jasanoff, S. (2020). Imagined worlds: The politics of future-making in the twenty-first century. In: The Politics and Science of Prevision (pp. 27-44). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003022428

Jasanoff, S. (2020). Knowing Earth. An Insider’s Guide to a Rapidly Changing Planet. In Tortell, P (Ed.). Earth 2020: An Insider’s Guide to a Rapidly Changing Planet (pp. 169-176). Open Book Publisher. https://doi.org/10.11647/obp.0193.19

Jasanoff, S. (2020). Pathologies of Liberty. Public Health Sovereignty and the Political Subject in the Covid-19 Crisis. Cahiers Droit, Sciences & Technologies, (11), 125-149. https://doi.org/10.4000/cdst.2982

Jasanoff, S. (2020). Ours Is the Earth: Science and Human History in the Anthropocene. Special issue of the Journal of the Philosophy of History. doi: 10.1163/18722636-12341447

Jasanoff, S. (2021). Humility in the Anthropocene. Globalizations, 18, 6, 1-15. doi: 10.1080/14747731.2020.1859743

Jasanoff, S. (2021). Knowledge for a just climate. Climatic Change, 169(3), 36. doi:10.1007/s10584-021-03275-x

Jasanoff, S., Simmet, H. R. (2021). Renewing the future: Excluded imaginaries in the global energy transition. Energy Research & Social Science, 80, 102205. DOI: 10.1016/j.erss.2021.102205.

Jasanoff, S. & Hilgartner, S. (2022). A Stress Test for Politics: A Comparative Perspective on Policy Responses to COVID-19. In J. Grogan and A. Donald (Eds.), Routledge Handbook on Law and the COVID-19 Pandemic (pp. 289-298). Routledge.

Johnstone, P., Rogge, K. S., Kivimaa, P., Fratini, C. F., Primmer, E., Stirling, A. (2020). Waves of disruption in clean energy transitions: Sociotechnical dimensions of system disruption in Germany and the United Kingdom. Energy Research & Social Science, 59, 101287. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.erss.2019.101287

Johnstone, P., Stirling, A. (2020) Beyond and beneath megaprojects: exploring submerged drivers of nuclear infrastructures. Journal of Mega Infrastructure & Sustainable Development 2, 220-241. https://doi.org/10.1080/24724718.2021.2012351

Johnstone, P., Stirling, A. (2020). Comparing nuclear trajectories in Germany and the United Kingdom: From regimes to democracies in sociotechnical transitions and discontinuities. Energy Research & Social Science, 59, 101245. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.erss.2019.101245

Scoones, I., Stirling, A. (2020). Uncertainty and the politics of transformation. In: Scoones, I., & Stirling, A (Eds.). The Politics of Uncertainty (pp. 1-30). Ruthledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003023845

Scoones, I., Stirling, A., Abrol, D., Atela, J., Charli-Joseph, L., Eakin, H., ... van Zwanenberg, P. (2020). Transformations to sustainability: combining structural, systemic and enabling approaches. Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability, 42, 65-75. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cosust.2019.12.004

Sovacool, B. K., Hess, D. J., Amir, S., Geels, F. W., Hirsh, R., Medina, L. R., Miller, C., Palavicio, C. A., Phadke, R., Ryghaug, M., Schot, J., Silvast, A., Stephans, J., Stirling, A., Turnheim, B., van der Vleuten, E., van Lente. H., Yearley, S. (2020). Sociotechnical agendas: Reviewing future directions for energy and climate research. Energy Research & Social Science, 70, 101617. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.erss.2020.101617

Stegmaier, P., Joly, P-B., Johnstone, P., Kuhlmann, S., & Stirling, A. (Eds.) (2022). Technologies of Discontinuation: Towards Transformative Innovation Policies. Edward Elgar.

Stirling, A. (2019). Engineering and sustainability: control and care in unfoldings of modernity. Routledge Companion to Philosophy of Engineering, London: Routledge

Stirling, A. (2019). Sustainability and the politics of transformations: from control to care in moving beyond modernity. In What Next for Sustainable Development?. Edward Elgar Publishing. https://doi.org/10.4337/9781788975209.00023

Stirling, A., Johnstone, P. (2021). Hidden military implications of ‘building back’ with new nuclear in the UK. Responsible Science, 11-14(3).

Stirling, A., Scoones, I. (2020). COVID-19 and the Futility of Control in the Modern World. Issues in Science and Technology, 38(4), 25-27

Media Publications

Reimagining Renewable Energy for this Earth Day
Rao, B. S. (2022, 7 April). countercurrents.org

COVID-19: Why we must reorganise cities to deal with the third wave
Rao, B. S. (2021, May 9). The News Minute

Covid-19: U.S. to Require Negative Virus Tests From International Air Travelers
Paddock, R. C. and Suhartono, M. (2021, Jan 15), The New York Times

Schützt uns die "Deutsche Angst" in Krisenzeiten?
Interview with S. Beck (2020, May 14), BMBF

Science Will Not Come on a White Horse With a Solution
Arjini, N. (2020, April 6). Interview with S. Jasanoff, The Nation

Deciphering the nexus of science, technology and society
Kadidal, A. (2020, Feb 11). Interview with S. Jasanoff. Deccan Herald, p. 11

Flip side of large-scale solar power
Rao, B. S. (2019, Dec 12). Deccan Herald

Rao, B. S. (2019, May 22). Deccan Herald

Why is support for nuclear power noisiest just as its failures become most clear?
Stirling, A. & Johnstone, P. (2022, Jan 9). opendemocracy.net

Time for the government to tell the truth about nuclear power.
Stirling, A. (2022, Jul 21). The Guardian