This paper examines a variety of theories bearing on 'socio-material incumbency'and
explores methodological implications. The aim is to develop a systematic general approach …

The concept of sociotechnical imaginaries (STI) has been increasingly implemented in
social science energy research to examine collectively held visions of desirable energy …

A fixation on 'scaling up'has captured current innovation discourses and, with it, political and
economic life at large. Perhaps most visible in the rise of platform technologies, big data and …

Changing relations between science and democracy–and controversies over issues such as
climate change, energy transitions, genetically modified organisms and smart technologies …

How do science and technology shape the world? Or medicine and engineering? How does
the world in turn shape them? And how, if at all, might we intervene in these processes …

The practices of science and technology are saturated with expectations, promises, and
prospective claims. Scientists “have the future in their bones” as CP Snow (1964, 17) …

In recent years the concept of the circular economy gained prominence in EU policy-making.
The circular economy promotes a future in which linear 'make-use-dispose'cultures are …

Over the past decades, we have witnessed calls for greater transdisciplinary engagement
between scientific and societal actors to develop more robust answers to complex societal …

Discourses around “strategic autonomy” and “sovereignty”, traditionally used at the state
level, have been recently circulated within the EU supranational context regarding the …

In this Perspective we argue that how we imagine energy futures is inevitably entwined with
how we envision our collective social and geographical futures. Spatiality is both constituted …