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New Horizons for Innovation Studies
Doing Without, Doing With Less
9781803925547 Edward Elgar Publishing
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.
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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.
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.
Critical Acclaim
‘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.’
– Andy Stirling, University of Sussex, UK
‘This is a wonderful and timely contribution to innovation studies, and to science, technology and society studies. Everyone in those fields should read it, and profit from it.’
– Arie Rip, University of Twente, the Netherlands
– Andy Stirling, University of Sussex, UK
‘This is a wonderful and timely contribution to innovation studies, and to science, technology and society studies. Everyone in those fields should read it, and profit from it.’
– Arie Rip, University of Twente, the Netherlands
Contributors
Contributors include: Grégori Akermann, Alexis Aulagnier, Marc Barbier, Nicolas Baya-Laffite, Florence Bonnet-Beaugrand, Henri Boullier, Franck Cochoy, Paul Cœurquetin, Cyrus Eugenio, Nicolas Fortané, Benoit Godin, Frédéric Goulet, Gay Hawkins, Florence Hellec, Matthieu Hubert, Nathalie Joly, Pierre-Benoit Joly, Niels Kessel, Zahar Koretsky, Donald MacKenzie, Anisah Madden, Alexandre Mallard, Laurence Monnais, Sébastien Mouret, Mathilde Paul, Jocelyne Porcher, Thomas Reverdy, Peter Stegmaier, Léa Stiefel ,Bruno Turnheim, Dominique Vinck
Contents
Contents:
Beyond withdrawal, rethinking innovation in society: introductory
considerations 1
Frédéric Goulet and Dominique Vinck
PART I FRAMEWORKS
1 Withdrawal in the light of a historical analysis of innovation 18
Benoît Godin
2 Governing the discontinuation of large socio-technical systems 29
Pierre-Benoît Joly, Marc Barbier and Bruno Turnheim
3 How do technologies die? Studies of decline in literature on
technological change 47
Zahar Koretsky
PART II MECHANISMS FOR DETACHMENT
4 Going gluten-free: individual trajectories of avoidance 71
Grégori Akermann and Paul Coeurquetin
5 Reducing plastic use: from problems and solutions to
problematisation 88
Gay Hawkins and Anisah Madden
6 Food without animals: substitution and exclusion 106
Sébastien Mouret and Jocelyne Porcher
7 The value of the Negawatt: load-shifting electricity consumption 120
Thomas Reverdy
PART III INTENSITY OF DETACHMENT
8 Preventive moderation: vaccine hesitancy and vaccine
selection in Quebec, 1960s–1990s 136
Laurence Monnais
9 Strong withdrawal or weak withdrawal? Problematization
of pesticides and categorization of their alternatives in
Argentina, Brazil and France 153
Frédéric Goulet, Alexis Aulagnier and Matthieu Hubert
10 Reducing antibiotic use in livestock farming 168
Nicolas Fortané, Florence Hellec, Florence Beaugrand,
Nathalie Joly, and Mathilde Paul
11 White paper in a greening world: a journey through
struggles over substitutes for chlorine bleaching 182
Nicolas Baya-Laffite
PART IV DE-INTERMEDIATION AND REAGENCEMENT
12 Breaking with the assumption of centralization: an attempt
to set up a peer-to-peer digital network for sharing agricultural data 201
Léa Stiefel and Dominique Vinck
13 Withdrawing as a matter of re-agencing: the case of bulk sales 216
Franck Cochoy, Alexandre Mallard and Cyrus Eugenio
PART V RESISTANCE AND LOCKING
14 When industry holds back the withdrawal of an endocrine disruptor 230
Henri Boullier
15 Pharmaceutical markets and drug withdrawals 245
Nils Kessel
16 Uninventing the bomb 258
Donald MacKenzie
17 Aftercare, or doing less with discontinuation niche governance 268
Peter Stegmaier
Conclusion: New Horizons for Innovation Studies 289
Frédéric Goulet and Dominique Vinck
Index 300
Beyond withdrawal, rethinking innovation in society: introductory
considerations 1
Frédéric Goulet and Dominique Vinck
PART I FRAMEWORKS
1 Withdrawal in the light of a historical analysis of innovation 18
Benoît Godin
2 Governing the discontinuation of large socio-technical systems 29
Pierre-Benoît Joly, Marc Barbier and Bruno Turnheim
3 How do technologies die? Studies of decline in literature on
technological change 47
Zahar Koretsky
PART II MECHANISMS FOR DETACHMENT
4 Going gluten-free: individual trajectories of avoidance 71
Grégori Akermann and Paul Coeurquetin
5 Reducing plastic use: from problems and solutions to
problematisation 88
Gay Hawkins and Anisah Madden
6 Food without animals: substitution and exclusion 106
Sébastien Mouret and Jocelyne Porcher
7 The value of the Negawatt: load-shifting electricity consumption 120
Thomas Reverdy
PART III INTENSITY OF DETACHMENT
8 Preventive moderation: vaccine hesitancy and vaccine
selection in Quebec, 1960s–1990s 136
Laurence Monnais
9 Strong withdrawal or weak withdrawal? Problematization
of pesticides and categorization of their alternatives in
Argentina, Brazil and France 153
Frédéric Goulet, Alexis Aulagnier and Matthieu Hubert
10 Reducing antibiotic use in livestock farming 168
Nicolas Fortané, Florence Hellec, Florence Beaugrand,
Nathalie Joly, and Mathilde Paul
11 White paper in a greening world: a journey through
struggles over substitutes for chlorine bleaching 182
Nicolas Baya-Laffite
PART IV DE-INTERMEDIATION AND REAGENCEMENT
12 Breaking with the assumption of centralization: an attempt
to set up a peer-to-peer digital network for sharing agricultural data 201
Léa Stiefel and Dominique Vinck
13 Withdrawing as a matter of re-agencing: the case of bulk sales 216
Franck Cochoy, Alexandre Mallard and Cyrus Eugenio
PART V RESISTANCE AND LOCKING
14 When industry holds back the withdrawal of an endocrine disruptor 230
Henri Boullier
15 Pharmaceutical markets and drug withdrawals 245
Nils Kessel
16 Uninventing the bomb 258
Donald MacKenzie
17 Aftercare, or doing less with discontinuation niche governance 268
Peter Stegmaier
Conclusion: New Horizons for Innovation Studies 289
Frédéric Goulet and Dominique Vinck
Index 300
