“Transformation” as a New Critical Orthodoxy: The Strategic Use of the Term “Transformation” Does Not Prevent Multiple Crises

By Ulrich Brand. 2016

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Ten essentials for action-oriented and second order energy transitions, transformations and climate change research (2018, background): “It also requires being explicit about what is meant by transformation to avoid all types of change being labelled as transformative [65] and clarifying what is to be transformed and for whom transformation is intended.”
The Sustainable Development Goals prioritize economic growth over sustainable resource use: a critical reflection on the SDGs from a socio-ecological perspective (2020, background): “Unlike mere technological and managerial solutions, transformative change requires political, socioeconomic, and cultural changes that go beyond incremental changes and challenge the current modes of production and living on a more fundamental level involving multiple actors and institutions (Stirli”
The Material Stock–Flow–Service Nexus: A New Approach for Tackling the Decoupling Conundrum (2017, background): “Although comprehensive analyses of transformation processes at the global level are missing [24], many experts agree that moving towards sustainability will require fundamental changes in resource use patterns [25].”
Is the 1.5°C target possible? Exploring the three spheres of transformation (2018, background): “Wilhite argues that these structures are inconsistent with low carbon strategies [52 ], and Brand [53, p. 505] emphasizes that it is these ‘deeply inscribed socioeconomic, political, cultural, and subjective social relations as well as societal nature relations that need to be transformed.’”
Challenges for Social-Ecological Transformations: Contributions from Social and Political Ecology (2017, background): “This is not a minor statement because it makes the respective analyses sensitive for the fact that the dominant tendencies or “grammars” of transformation need to be reflected [15].”
Bioeconomy Strategies: Contexts, Visions, Guiding Implementation Principles and Resulting Debates (2017, result): “This is in line with the observation that in the transformation debate, radical problem diagnosis and promises of far-reaching change are combined with a rather incremental understanding of the processes and steps of societal change required to cope with the problems [83].”