Thomas Berker, Thomas Edward Sutcliffe, Ruth Woods
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Starting from the observation that households are infrastructurally entangled, this conceptual article investigates the role of households’ agency in relation to socio-technical sustainability transitions. It is argued that when household members engage in infrastructuring activities such as developing and maintaining their household they perform practices that are relevant for sustainability transitions on a societal scale. Three forms of this kind of infrastructural household agency are identified: Households appropriate sustainable innovations, they establish new standards of normality both within and in relation to other households and they engage in experiments with sustainable infrastructural futures by reframing the role of households in society in fundamental ways.
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Environmental Innovation and Societal Transitions serves as a platform for reporting studies on innovations and socio-economic transitions aimed at fostering an environmentally sustainable economy, thereby addressing structural resource scarcity and environmental challenges, particularly those associated with fossil energy use and climate change. The journal focuses on various forms of innovation, including technological, organizational, economic, institutional, and political, as well as economy-wide and sectoral changes in areas such as energy, transport, agriculture, and water management. It endeavors to tackle complex questions concerning social, economic, behavioral-psychological, and political barriers and opportunities, along with their intricate interactions. With a multidisciplinary approach and methodological openness, the journal welcomes contributions from a wide array of disciplines within the social, environmental, and innovation sciences.
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