Pub Date : 2022-11-08DOI: 10.1080/00291951.2022.2136584
R. Stock
ABSTRACT Aspiring to India’s COP26 pledge of attaining 500 gigawatts of non-fossil energy capacity by 2030 will entail nothing short of a colossal transformation of rural spaces. Solar park development has already disrupted the lives and livelihoods of marginalized peasants through land dispossession, uneven provisioning of electricity and water resources, dislocation of fuelwood and grazing access, and the diminution of labor opportunities. However, it remains unclear how affected peasants internalize the burdens of decarbonization. The aim of the paper is to address the following questions: How are the geographies of solar energy transitions embodied? How do dispossessed peasants respond affectively? Drawing on feminist political ecology literature and fieldwork that included household surveys and semi-structured interviews, the author finds that the dispossessed embody a range of affective responses, including emotional geographies and embodied resistance, that enable or constrain the place-making of equitable alternative sites of solar energy generation. The author concludes that as India rapidly erects large-scale solar infrastructures—indisputably imperative efforts to confront the climate crisis—the embodiment of injustices suffered by the dispossessed will haunt low-carbon futures.
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Pub Date : 2022-11-08DOI: 10.1080/00291951.2022.2136108
N. Nagarajah
ABSTRACT Global efforts towards sustainable energy transition remain uneven. Developing countries are embedded in a vulnerable setting requiring rapid but responsible action to meet increasing energy demands due to their specific projected economic and population growth. Consequently, such countries have addressed the challenges of achieving sustainable energy transition differently compared with developed countries with regard to renewable energy development and its governance. Theories of sustainability transition and responsible innovation (RI) have their origin in developed countries, and the application of this Western-centric version has been found incompatible with the contexts of developing countries. The aim of the paper is to explore how contextual understandings of RI are discursively constructed and how such understandings enable or constrain sustainable energy pathways in developing countries. The author draws on empirical evidence relating to the power sector in Sri Lanka and analyses three narratives in play revealed by a qualitative case study. The findings indicate that developing countries must place greater emphasis on aligning technological innovation systems with RI in efforts to achieve sustainability transitions by being vigilant with regard to contextual narratives on RI. The author concludes that prevalent narratives should be regarded as a bridge for linking sustainability transitions to RI.
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Pub Date : 2022-10-20DOI: 10.1080/00291951.2022.2120825
Markku Sotarauta, LiseLillebrygfjeld Halse, Arnt Fløysand
Nora Geirsdotter Bækkelund defended her thesis Agency– Context Interaction in Industrial Path Development – A Multidimensional Approach on 16 June 2022, within the recently established PhD programme Responsible Innovation and Regional Development (RESINNREG) at the Western Norway University of Applied Sciences (HVL). The thesis investigates agency in industry path development, and how agency interacts with context. Bækkelund applies a multidimensional approach and analyses three cases of rural tourism path development in Western Norway. The main research question of the thesis is:
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Pub Date : 2022-10-20DOI: 10.1080/00291951.2022.2150303
J. Blažek, Anton Lypianin
ABSTRACT The paper investigates the economic performance of Czech electro-engineering companies in relation to their tier, ownership, size, level of specialization, and host region in order to scrutinize one of the key assumptions about functional upgrading, namely that lead firms and higher tier suppliers capture more value than lower tier suppliers. This issue has fundamental policy implications, as global value chain (GVC)/global production network (GPN) policy recommendations revolve mainly around two paradigms: to ‘plug-in’ into GVC/GPN and to ‘move-up the chain’, meaning to upgrade functionally. The paper contributes to the GVC/GPN literature by scrutinizing the underinvestigated electro-engineering industry, accounting for variegated levels of specialization of particular companies in the industry, combining sectoral and regional perspectives (i.e. the modes of strategic coupling), and providing disaggregated data for individual companies instead of values aggregated by tiers. The results show large variation in the economic performance of individual companies, yet ownership and tier are the key factors driving economic results. Companies operating outside the production networks performed strongly in terms of profitability, while maintaining the same level of wages as other domestic companies in the electro-engineering industry. Thus, the authors conclude that ‘plug-in’ imperative should be carefully considered within specific industrial and regional contexts.
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Pub Date : 2022-10-20DOI: 10.1080/00291951.2022.2156920
Madeleine Gustavsson, M. Farstad
ABSTRACT Much feminist rural geography to date has centred on understanding gender issues in rural space. Norwegian scholars have been leading the way in identifying new themes and approaches to examining the positions of women and men on farms and in farming communities, which has contributed to important contextual knowledge of gender relations on Norwegian farms, as well as conceptual understandings of farming lives more broadly. The article has the same objective. The authors review the extensive body of literature and identify themes, trajectories, approaches, and concepts used since the 1990s. They find that there were three main periods: 1990s to 1997, with early work that sought to describe gender roles; 1994–2005, when constructivist approaches were used; and the mid-2000s onwards, when researchers ‘branched out’ to study more specific themes. To encourage a widening of feminist perspectives in Norwegian farming and forestry, the authors suggest taking up (1) an intersectional approach in attending to gender, sexuality, class, ethnicity, and ability, (2) a decolonial approach, and (3) a focus on the ‘green transition’. They conclude that, together, these could help to address pressing issues relating to equity, sustainability, and the future of agriculture and forestry in Norwegian contexts.
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Pub Date : 2022-09-30DOI: 10.1080/00291951.2022.2125825
Eva Nedorostová, P. Raška, M. Dolejš
ABSTRACT The purpose of the article is to address the gap in approaches to assessing the quality of urban life (QoUL) in small towns, with a particular focus on the environmental dimension of the QoUL concept. The authors examined a statistical relation between life satisfaction and QoUL in small towns, detected the position of the environment among other dimensions of QoUL, and explored the link between the stated and revealed preferences of residents in a small town on the outer margin of the metropolitan area of Prague, the capital of Czechia. The results revealed a pathway to assess trade-offs in QoUL posed by the varying effects of the proximity of small towns to larger urban centres. The discussion focuses on the limitations of exploring stated and revealed preferences regarding the use of the QoUL concept in urban planning. The authors conclude that the worst QoUL compared with overall life satisfaction resulted from the ‘bounding effect’ of those who were socially and economically bound to the study location. Additionally, they conclude that the environmental concerns represented an important but not major dimension of QoUL, as was also reflected in election manifestos and results.
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Pub Date : 2022-08-08DOI: 10.1080/00291951.2022.2113428
Anthony Nkrumah Agyabeng, A. Peprah, J. Mensah, Ernest Mensah
ABSTRACT The growth of informal settlements across the Global South has generated concomitant empirical research, and research attention has focused on a different aspect of informal settlements. However, despite the plethora of literature in the growing field of informal settlements research, there is a paucity of research concerning the contribution of informal settlement dwellers to the economic development of the urban economy, and the perception of informal settlement dwellers and their challenges, particularly in the context of many countries in Africa. The article contributes to fill this gap by examining the contribution of informal dwellers to urban economic development and the challenges they encounter in the process. Based on a case study involving in-depth interviews and focus group discussions in Accra, Ghana, the authors found that despite the challenges confronting informal dwellers and their characteristics, they contributed to urban development through revenue generation, labour provision, and the creation of employment. Furthermore, the findings uncovered context-specific contributions of informal settlements to urban development that helped both policy actors and practitioners. The authors conclude that the findings imply that urban managers should focus on the settlers and recognize the contributions of informal settlements to urban development.
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Pub Date : 2022-08-08DOI: 10.1080/00291951.2022.2111270
J. Vik, Eirik Magnus Fuglestad, Emil Øversveen
ABSTRACT Since the early 2010s, increased centre-periphery tensions have arisen across the Western Hemisphere and have had a significant influence on domestic policies. Analysts have explained this as an effect of economic inequalities and rural marginalisation. In this article it is argued that rural upheavals and centre-periphery conflicts can be caused by processes of alienation. The authors’ analysis is based on existing literature and statistics, as well as their own previously published research. From the case of Norway, they suggest that rural and peripheral upheavals can be explained as alienation caused by a combination of two different phenomena: ongoing transitions within the rural political economy of nature-based industries and sectors, and changes in the role of the modern welfare state, towards a state that in several key policy areas withdraws from the peripheries. Combined, these economic and political developments have produced a state of rural alienation and sharpening centre-periphery tensions, even in the absence of marginalisation and increases in economic inequality. In conclusion, the main argument of the article is that combined, such economic and political developments have produced a state of rural alienation and sharpening centre-periphery tensions, even in the absence of marginalisation and increases in economic inequality.
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Pub Date : 2022-08-08DOI: 10.1080/00291951.2022.2108895
Aschalew Abeje
ABSTRACT Transnational marriage involving urban women from the Amhara Region, Ethiopia, and migrant husbands from abroad has been common in the region since the 1990s. The purpose of the article is to analyse the causes behind the women’s marriage to migrant husbands. Triangulated data were collected through interviews, focus group discussions, observations, archive analysis, and questionnaires in Gondar Municipality and Bahir Dar Municipality, from which migrants husbands predominantly originate. The study approached multiple experiences as intersecting mechanisms and revealed transnational marriage as a multicausal process. The findings revealed broad effects, including how poverty was gendered and how gendered economy denied social prospect to induce women to enter into transnational marriage. As economic causes were considered, the phenomenon was not simply about poverty but about information concerning prospects abroad and the recognition of transnational marriage as a migration path without risky options. A further finding was that the ongoing patriarchal order and the pessimism of improved status of women were vital determinants of transnational marriages. The author concludes that given the fragile bargaining power of young women in the Amhara patriarchal setting, marriage to migrants also constitutes the agency and enactments of fathers.
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