TY - GEN A1 - Krüger, Timmo T1 - From innovations to exnovations T2 - Building Livelihoods in times of ecological and political crisis : Book of Abstracts, Manchester, UK, July 5-8, 2021 N2 - The concept of social innovation is very popular in sustainability and transformation research. The concept covers new forms of organisation, business models, and consumption practices that are supposed to lead towards greater sustainability. From a degrowth perspective, however, the concept has problematic implications. First, the practice-relevant impact of the concept is ambivalent. The appreciation of grassroots initiatives is accompanied by a reproduction of the logicof acceleration, which has to be considered to be part of the problem. Second, the concept does not necessarily focus on the phenomena that are crucial for transformation towards a degrowth society. Conflicts and questions of power are underexposed. Such disharmonious processes are primarily not carried out with regard to innovations, but rather with regard to exnovations. The term exnovation refers to the intended elimination (or dismantling) of practices, products, technologies, and infrastructure. Almost inevitably, exnovations are accompanied by conflicts. After all, the users and those who profit from the elements selected for elimination usually have an interest in the perpetuation of the existing patterns of production and consumption. However, it is obvious that an ambitious socio-ecological transformation cannot be reached by adding new innovative practices, products, technologies, and infrastructure without tackling the existing ones. Therefore, one shouldabandon the concept of social innovation. As an alternative, it seems to be more promising to link with debates about buen vivir, degrowth, imperial mode of living, (neo-)extractivism, and post-development, which do not revolve around alternative development paths but around alternatives to (the fixation on) development. Y1 - 2021 UR - https://dc8e1b37-d276-4922-a7b9-2e5208df57cd.filesusr.com/ugd/ea6f53_82534b88a4cc4ab69348dc8ec02dd4be.pdf?index=true SP - 137 EP - 138 ER - TY - GEN A1 - Krüger, Timmo T1 - How to imagine a good life T2 - Building Livelihoods in times of ecological and political crisis : Book of Abstracts, Manchester, UK, July 5-8, 2021 N2 - The concept of Buen Vivir goes back to political struggles by indigenous movements in Ecuador (who speak of Sumak Kawsay) and Bolivia (Suma Qamaña). The concept was made globally adaptable in transcontinental exchanges between social movement activists and through the work of "translators" like Alberto Acosta and Eduardo Gudynas. Building on this, processes of (re-)localization occur, in which the global perspective is again concretized to local conditions. Here, "localizers" are at work who fill the globalized, abstract notion of Buen Vivir with specific content and, thus, introduce it into local discourses. The German degrowth and climate justice movement is one of the central receptors of Buen Vivir. These (re-)localization processes have hardly been examined so far and are the focus of the proposed paper. The empirical basis are expert interviews with relevant translators and localizers as well as group discussions with initiatives and groups of the degrowth and climate justice movement. Two central theses on the use of the concept by German-speaking protagonists can be derived from the empirical material: 1)The attention to Buen Vivir varies over time. The fluctuating relevance can be traced back to the course of political struggles both in the Andean countries and in Europe itself. 2) The notion of Buen Vivir fills a void in the framing strategy of social movements in Germany. The concept goes beyond criticism and rejection and has an utopian surplus. The reference to Buen Vivir represents an opportunity for many protagonists to make positive visions thinkable and expressible. Y1 - 2021 UR - https://dc8e1b37-d276-4922-a7b9-2e5208df57cd.filesusr.com/ugd/ea6f53_82534b88a4cc4ab69348dc8ec02dd4be.pdf?index=true SP - 152 EP - 153 ER - TY - GEN A1 - Krüger, Timmo T1 - Energiekonflikte und Demokratiekrise T2 - “Wir haben die Wahl! Politik in Zeiten von Unsicherheit und Autokratisierung”, 28. Wissenschaftlicher Kongress der Deutschen Vereinigung für Politikwissenschaft, 14.-16. September 2021. Panelprogramm Y1 - 2021 UR - https://www.dvpw.de/fileadmin/docs/Kongress2021/2021_Panelprogramm_2021-09-08.pdf SP - S. 226 ER - TY - GEN A1 - Krüger, Timmo T1 - Die Energiewende im Kontext von Klima- und Demokratiekrise: Die Grenzen der Deliberation und radikaldemokratische Alternativen T2 - GAIA: Ecological Perspectives for Science and Society Y1 - 2021 U6 - https://doi.org/10.14512/gaia.30.3.11 SN - 2625-5413 VL - 30 IS - 3 SP - 181 EP - 188 ER - TY - GEN A1 - Krüger, Timmo T1 - Energiekonflikte und Demokratiekrise. Eine radikaldemokratische Perspektive auf das Ringen um Gemeinwohlziele der Energiewende T2 - Zeitschrift für Politikwissenschaft Y1 - 2021 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1007/s41358-021-00289-w SN - 2366-2638 SN - 1430-6387 VL - 31 IS - 4 SP - 539 EP - 563 ER - TY - GEN A1 - Krüger, Timmo T1 - The German energy transition and the eroding consensus on ecological modernization: A radical democratic perspective on conflicts over competing justice claims and energy visions T2 - Futures Y1 - 2022 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1016/j.futures.2021.102899 SN - 0016-3287 VL - 136 SP - 1 EP - 12 ER - TY - GEN A1 - Krüger, Timmo A1 - Eichenauer, Eva A1 - Gailing, Ludger T1 - Whose future is it anyway? Struggles for just energy futures T2 - Futures Y1 - 2022 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1016/j.futures.2022.103018 SN - 0016-3287 VL - 142 SP - 103018-1 EP - 103018-5 ER -