Ambivalence, Sustainability and the Governance of Socio-Technical Transitions
Ambivalence, Sustainability and the Governance of Socio-Technical Transitions
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社会技术转型的矛盾心理、可持续性和治理
DOI：
10.1080/15239080701622840
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发表时间：
2007
影响因子：
3.2
通讯作者：
E. Shove
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作者：
G. Walker;E. Shove
摘要可持续发展的目标很少有简单明确的定义，但更多的是矛盾的，难以达成一致，难以具体说明，尽管程度不同。本文反思了可持续性作为指导和治理的规范性目标的内在矛盾性。它特别借鉴了鲍曼对矛盾心理、现代性和后现代性之间复杂关系的描述，利用这些思想来考虑围绕可持续/不可持续划分界限所涉及的战略工作。传统的和反思的方法来治理和管理的社会技术转型的分析的影响进行了探讨。自反性治理的策略承诺更开放和直接地处理挑战，而不是消除矛盾和不断变化的目标。虽然这些方法将矛盾心理的某些方面公开化，但它们是通过以其他方面为背景的方式进行辩论，从而掩盖了所涉及的政治。文章的结论是把问题转过来，并认为，而不是通过治理方法管理的东西，矛盾心理本身是这种技术的结果和后果。
Abstract The goals of sustainable development are rarely simply and clearly defined, but more often—although to varying degrees—ambivalent, difficult to agree and hard to specify. This paper reflects on the inherent ambivalence of sustainability as a normative objective of steering and governance. It draws, in particular, on Bauman's account of the complex relationship between ambivalence, modernity and postmodernity, using these ideas to consider the strategic work involved in drawing boundaries around what is sustainable/unsustainable. The implications of the analysis are explored for conventional and reflexive approaches to the governance and management of socio-technical transitions. Strategies of reflexive governance promise to engage more openly and directly with the challenges of handling rather than eliminating ambivalent and changing goals. While these approaches bring some dimensions of ambivalence out into the open, they do so by framing debate in ways that background others, thereby obscuring the politics involved. The article concludes by turning the problem around and arguing that rather than being something managed through methods of governance, ambivalence is itself an outcome and a consequence of such techniques.