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New Horizons for Innovation Studies

Doing Without, Doing With Less

Inbunden, Engelska, 2023

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This timely book takes an insightful look at rethinking innovation and how lessons can be learnt from what is a major turning point in our contemporary societies: the urgent need to reduce the use or consumption of certain substances and technologies due to the dangers they pose to our environments and current way of life. Using theoretical reflection and empirical work in a broad range of sectors including agriculture, food, health, religion, energy, packaging, markets and digital technology, eminent scholars utilise new perspectives to enrich our understanding of innovation processes and how these can be transformed.New Horizons for Innovation Studies provides a deep dive into what our production and consumption processes are, how they could be innovated differently and how those innovations could interrogate social science concepts and in particular science and technology studies. Chapters explore key case studies and topics for innovation studies, such as the reduced use of antibiotics and pesticides, car-free cities, bans on plastic use and decreasing meat consumption. Further, the book challenges both the partial and complete withdrawal of certain substances and technologies that currently sit at the heart of our contemporary lifestyles, and explores the emergence of alternatives as well as the potential resistance, risks and outcomes.This engaging book will provide a thought-provoking read for scholars and graduate students in innovation policy, science and technology studies and public policy.

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Utgivningsdatum2023-12-12
Mått156 x 234 x undefined mm
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
SerieDestabilisation, Discontinuation and Decline as Horizons for Transformation
FörlagEdward Elgar Publishing Ltd
ISBN9781803925547

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Edited by Frédéric Goulet, Researcher, UMR Innovation, Centre de coopération internationale en recherche agronomique pour le développement (CIRAD), France, and Visiting scientist, Sustainable Agrifood Systems Program, Centro internacional de mejoramiento de maíz y trigo (CIMMYT), Mexico and Dominique Vinck, Professor, STS Lab, Institut des Sciences Sociales, University of Lausanne, Switzerland

Contents:Beyond withdrawal, rethinking innovation in society: introductoryconsiderations 1Frédéric Goulet and Dominique VinckPART I FRAMEWORKS1 Withdrawal in the light of a historical analysis of innovation 18Benoît Godin2 Governing the discontinuation of large socio-technical systems 29Pierre-Benoît Joly, Marc Barbier and Bruno Turnheim3 How do technologies die? Studies of decline in literature ontechnological change 47Zahar KoretskyPART II MECHANISMS FOR DETACHMENT4 Going gluten-free: individual trajectories of avoidance 71Grégori Akermann and Paul Coeurquetin5 Reducing plastic use: from problems and solutions toproblematisation 88Gay Hawkins and Anisah Madden6 Food without animals: substitution and exclusion 106Sébastien Mouret and Jocelyne Porcher7 The value of the Negawatt: load-shifting electricity consumption 120Thomas ReverdyPART III INTENSITY OF DETACHMENT8 Preventive moderation: vaccine hesitancy and vaccineselection in Quebec, 1960s–1990s 136Laurence Monnais9 Strong withdrawal or weak withdrawal? Problematizationof pesticides and categorization of their alternatives inArgentina, Brazil and France 153Frédéric Goulet, Alexis Aulagnier and Matthieu Hubert10 Reducing antibiotic use in livestock farming 168Nicolas Fortané, Florence Hellec, Florence Beaugrand,Nathalie Joly, and Mathilde Paul11 White paper in a greening world: a journey throughstruggles over substitutes for chlorine bleaching 182Nicolas Baya-LaffitePART IV DE-INTERMEDIATION AND REAGENCEMENT12 Breaking with the assumption of centralization: an attemptto set up a peer-to-peer digital network for sharing agricultural data 201Léa Stiefel and Dominique Vinck13 Withdrawing as a matter of re-agencing: the case of bulk sales 216Franck Cochoy, Alexandre Mallard and Cyrus EugenioPART V RESISTANCE AND LOCKING14 When industry holds back the withdrawal of an endocrine disruptor 230Henri Boullier15 Pharmaceutical markets and drug withdrawals 245Nils Kessel16 Uninventing the bomb 258Donald MacKenzie17 Aftercare, or doing less with discontinuation niche governance 268Peter StegmaierConclusion: New Horizons for Innovation Studies 289Frédéric Goulet and Dominique VinckIndex 300

‘With social and environmental imperatives for transformation now taken for granted even at the most elite levels of international governance, there could hardly be a more timely and topical subject: the rethinking of innovation to be as much about how to withdraw from technologies as how to grow them. The result is a refreshingly deeply researched, wide-ranging and ambitious collection of accessible chapters both new and old – all highly practical and policy-relevant. This book is essential reading for anyone interested in taking seriously the responsibilities to steer innovation in directions that deliver peace, social justice and ecological flourishing.’