Transition coalitions: toward a theory of transformative just transitions

IF 2.4 Q3 ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES Environmental Sociology Pub Date : 2022-01-26 DOI:10.1080/23251042.2022.2031512
D. Ciplet
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ABSTRACT From its origins in the labor and environmental justice movements in the United States, the concept of a just transition has travelled globally as a frame to infuse concerns of justice in public responses to escalating environmental crises. However, important gaps remain in terms of understanding the potential of transition efforts to be transformative in shifting the political economic structures that cause, sustain, and deepen injustices. This article asks: what does critical sociological theory of power and social change offer for understanding the features of transformative transition coalitions as compared to those that reinforce environmental, social, and economic inequality? To this purpose, I apply insights from Antonio Gramsci and Karl Polanyi, contemporary scholars who use their theory, and environmental justice scholars to identify the means and form of transformative just transition coalitions. I identify two respective conditions of transformative coalitions: strategic power and embedded relations. Through this lens, I describe four transition coalition types: status quo, impeded, disembedded, and transformative, and discuss related examples.
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转型联盟:走向转型正义转型理论
摘要公正过渡的概念起源于美国的劳工和环境正义运动,作为一个框架,在公众应对不断升级的环境危机时注入了对正义的关注。然而,在理解过渡努力在改变导致、维持和加深不公正的政治经济结构方面具有变革性的潜力方面,仍然存在重大差距。这篇文章问道:与那些加剧环境、社会和经济不平等的联盟相比,权力和社会变革的批判性社会学理论为理解变革性过渡联盟的特征提供了什么?为此,我运用了当代学者安东尼奥·葛兰西和卡尔·波兰尼的见解,他们运用自己的理论,以及环境正义学者,来确定变革性公正过渡联盟的手段和形式。我确定了变革联盟的两个条件:战略力量和嵌入关系。通过这个镜头,我描述了四种过渡联盟类型:现状、受阻、脱离和变革,并讨论了相关的例子。
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Environmental Sociology
Environmental Sociology ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES-
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期刊介绍: Environmental Sociology is dedicated to applying and advancing the sociological imagination in relation to a wide variety of environmental challenges, controversies and issues, at every level from the global to local, from ‘world culture’ to diverse local perspectives. As an international, peer-reviewed scholarly journal, Environmental Sociology aims to stretch the conceptual and theoretical boundaries of both environmental and mainstream sociology, to highlight the relevance of sociological research for environmental policy and management, to disseminate the results of sociological research, and to engage in productive dialogue and debate with other disciplines in the social, natural and ecological sciences. Contributions may utilize a variety of theoretical orientations including, but not restricted to: critical theory, cultural sociology, ecofeminism, ecological modernization, environmental justice, organizational sociology, political ecology, political economy, post-colonial studies, risk theory, social psychology, science and technology studies, globalization, world-systems analysis, and so on. Cross- and transdisciplinary contributions are welcome where they demonstrate a novel attempt to understand social-ecological relationships in a manner that engages with the core concerns of sociology in social relationships, institutions, practices and processes. All methodological approaches in the environmental social sciences – qualitative, quantitative, integrative, spatial, policy analysis, etc. – are welcomed. Environmental Sociology welcomes high-quality submissions from scholars around the world.
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