Thread by @AgathoniaMedia

"the paper introduces politics and #power into the multi-level perspective. Instrumental, discursive, material and institutional forms of power and resistance are distinguished and illustrated with examples from the UK electricity system."

journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.11…

"policymakers&many transition-scholars have too high hopes that ‘green’ innovation will be sufficient to bring about low-carbon transitions.Future agendas in research&policy should therefore pay much more attention to the #destabilization&#decline of existing fossil fuel regimes"

"The specific contribution ... is to conceptualize regime stability as the outcome of active resistance by incumbent actors. Furthermore, the paper will discuss various ways in which these actors use power and politics to resist fundamental transitions to new low-carbon #systems"

"Phrased differently, this agenda would mean that we should better understand the ‘destruction’ part of #Schumpeter’s ‘creative #destruction’ concept."

"I suggest that regime resistance can occur on three different framing dimensions: a) diagnostic framing, which identifies and defines #problems; b) prognostic framing, which advances #solutions to problems; and c) motivational framing, which provides a rationale for action..."

"rather than following the normal ‘David versus Goliath’ storyline, in which heroic green innovations overthrow the giant, this new agenda would shift the analytical agenda to better understand how ‘Goliath’ can be weakened, eroded and destabilized"