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TY - CHAP
T1 - Will China deliver urban ‘Ecological Civilisation’?
AU - Tyfield, David
N1 - This is a draft chapter/article. The final version is available in Research Handbook on Energy and Society edited by Janette Webb, Faye Wade & Margaret Tingey, published in 2021, Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd http://dx.doi.org/10.4337/9781839100710.00025 The material cannot be used for any other purpose without further permission of the publisher, and is for private use only.
PY - 2021/3/8
Y1 - 2021/3/8
N2 - The world will not be able to achieve sustainable transition without China, yet there is both significant neglect and confusion regarding Chinese environmental innovation and its potential impact. We consider a framework for analysis of this crucial but confounding issue in terms of complex power/knowledge systems (CPKS) and innovation-as-politics. This sets up a quadrant into which evidence from this essentially contested debate may be arranged. The analysis illuminates the exceptional dynamism of Chinese innovation, which is driving seismic socio-technical and socio-political change, increasingly at global scale. The significance of Chinese innovation is thus grasped not in terms of what it is itself delivering directly, but rather how it is driving social turbulence that then, in turn, is disrupting incumbent socio-technical systems. As such, it is leading the world backwards into the Anthropocene, not forging boldly ahead. The argument is illustrated with the ‘hardest case’ of sustainable transition of (digitized) urban mobility.
AB - The world will not be able to achieve sustainable transition without China, yet there is both significant neglect and confusion regarding Chinese environmental innovation and its potential impact. We consider a framework for analysis of this crucial but confounding issue in terms of complex power/knowledge systems (CPKS) and innovation-as-politics. This sets up a quadrant into which evidence from this essentially contested debate may be arranged. The analysis illuminates the exceptional dynamism of Chinese innovation, which is driving seismic socio-technical and socio-political change, increasingly at global scale. The significance of Chinese innovation is thus grasped not in terms of what it is itself delivering directly, but rather how it is driving social turbulence that then, in turn, is disrupting incumbent socio-technical systems. As such, it is leading the world backwards into the Anthropocene, not forging boldly ahead. The argument is illustrated with the ‘hardest case’ of sustainable transition of (digitized) urban mobility.
KW - complex power/knowledge systems
KW - innovation-as-politics
KW - urban mobility
KW - digitization
KW - disruptive innovation
M3 - Chapter
SN - 9781839100703
VL - 1
SP - 201
EP - 214
BT - Research Handbook on Energy and Society
A2 - Webb, Janette
A2 - Wade, Faye
A2 - Tingey, Margaret
PB - Edward Elgar
CY - Cheltenham
ER -