Technologies in decline : : socio-technical approaches to discontinuation and destabilisation / / edited by Zahar Koretsky [and three others].

• TeilnehmendeR: Koretsky, Zahar,
• Place / Publishing House: London, England ;, New York, New York : : Routledge,, [2023]; ©2023
• Year of Publication: 2023
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (295 pages)

The central questions of this book are how technologies decline, how societies deal with technologies in decline, and how governance may be explicitly oriented towards parting with 'undesirable' technology. Surprisingly, these questions are fairly novel. Thus far, the dominant interest in...

Table of Contents

• Cover
• Half Title
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Table of Contents
• List of illustrations
• Notes on contributors
• Preface
• Acknowledgements
• 1. Introduction: The relevance of technologies in decline
• PART I: Conceptual explorations
• 2. Dynamics of technological decline as socio-material unravelling
• 3. Destabilisation, decline and phase-out in transitions research
• 4. Conceptual aspects of discontinuation governance: An exploration
• PART II: Empirical explorations
• 5. Discourses around decline: Comparing the debates on coal phase-out in the UK, Germany and Finland
• 6. Mapping the territorial adaptation of technological trajectories: The phase-out of the internal combustion engine
• 7. The role of alternative technologies in the enactment of (dis)continuities
• 8. Caring for decline: The case of 16mm film artworks of Tacita Dean
• PART III: Governance explorations
• 9. Implementing exnovation?: Ambitions and governance complexity in the case of the Brussels Low Emission Zone
• 10. Phase-out as a policy approach to address sustainability challenges: A systematic revie
• 11. The end of the world's leaded petrol era: Reflections on the final four decades of a century-long campaign
• 12. Conclusions and continuations: Horizons for studying technologies in decline
• Index.