Jacob Hasselbalch
Biographic Data
| ID | 1616629 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jacob Hasselbalch |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jacob |
| FAMILY NAME | Hasselbalch |
| SIGNATURE | HASSELBALCH J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Copenhagen Business School |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-5491-7023 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 46 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 13 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Prefigurative plastic politics: Alternative organising in the global plastic economy
This article examines how grassroots and community-led initiatives engage in prefigurative politics, understood as building alternative futures in the present, in response to the global plastic crisis. Engaging with work on sustainable materialism and alternative organising, we introduce the concept of prefigurative plastic politics to capture how initiatives rework material and economic relations around plastics through spatially plural practice…
Epistemic derisking: Knowledge infrastructures in energy finance
Over the past decade, governments have increasingly sought to mobilise private capital for expanding renewable sources of energy for the goals of decarbonisation and energy security. While existing research has focused on the financial and regulatory tools that states deploy to reduce investor perceptions of risk, scant attention has been paid to the role of knowledge infrastructures in energy finance. In this article, we address this gap by anal…
How Niche Construction Shapes Organizational Fields and Populations
Niche Construction Theory (NCT), a recent offshoot of evolutionary biology, emphasizes how agents modify their surroundings and create organizational variation in an environment. Here we discuss how NCT can enrich the theorization of organization-environment interactions. As the global ecological situation continues to deteriorate, we must understand the capacity of organizations to both shape and adapt to their environments. NCT endogenizes the …
What Can the Environmental State Actually Do? Three Critiques and Their Limits
Three critiques of the environmental state shape the discussion of its possibilities and limits. First, states are deemed structurally unable to mitigate climate change due to the “glass ceiling” of systemic transformations. Second, governments play contradictory roles in sustainability transitions because of the manifold societal demands they are facing in an age of overlapping crises. Finally, state bureaucracies and agencies are often branded …
Reimagining growth futures: Overcoming the false binary between green growth and degrowth
Who are the green transition experts? Towards a new research agenda on climate change knowledge
Experts play a significant role in shaping global and local norms on how societies should respond to the climate crisis. However, current scholarship on the relationship between expertise and climate change has not fully addressed recent transformations in the field, specifically the emergence and increasingly influential role of what we term “green transition expertise.” We define green transition expertise as a more applied, normative, and cont…
Dealing with dangerous abundance: Towards post-growth International Relations
Even though International Relations (IR) research increasingly recognises the unprecedented urgency of environmental degradation and the resulting ecological injustices, only few IR scholars have probed into the role of economic growth as a fundamental driver of global unsustainability. We level two critiques at the field of IR from a post-growth perspective. First, most IR theories are complicit in naturalising economic growth as a fundamental c…
Green economic planning for rapid decarbonisation
Organizing for transformation: Post-growth in International Political Economy
The global political economy is organized around the pursuit of economic growth. Yet scholars of International Political Economy (IPE) have been surprisingly slow to address its wide-ranging implications and, thus, to advance debates about post-growth alternatives. The premise of the article is that for IPE to deepen its grasp of the escalation of contemporary socioecological crises both analytically and normatively, it needs to put the growth qu…
Narrating plastics governance: Policy narratives in the European plastics strategy
The European Union (EU) aspires to be an important global agenda-setter on how to treat and regulate the growing plastics problem. We present an analysis of the plastic policy narratives shaping European plastics governance, in particular through the European Commission’s Plastics Strategy. Our aim is to first uncover the policy narratives at play, and then examine how actors make use of those narratives through strategic construction. Based on i…
Power and politics in plastics research: A critique of “Whither Plastics”
Framing brain drain: Between solidarity and skills in European labor mobility
How do crisis perceptions interrelate with the emergence and re-constitution of policy problems? By using a novel combination of interviews with a content and network analysis of hand-coded parliamentary questions, this article maps the emergence of brain drain as a policy problem at the level of the European Union and follows the evolution of the issue over the last four parliamentary periods (from 1999 to 2019). I identify a skills storyline (e…
Innovation assessment: Governing Through Periods of Disruptive Technological Change
Current regulatory approaches are ill-equipped to address the challenges of governing through periods of disruptive technological change. This article hones in on the use of assessment regimes at the level of the European Union, particularly in the work of the Commission, to argue for a missing middle between technology assessment and impact assessment. Technology assessment focuses on the upstream governance of science and technology, while impa…
Green economic planning for rapid decarbonisation
Organizing for transformation: Post-growth in International Political Economy
The global political economy is organized around the pursuit of economic growth. Yet scholars of International Political Economy (IPE) have been surprisingly slow to address its wide-ranging implications and, thus, to advance debates about post-growth alternatives. The premise of the article is that for IPE to deepen its grasp of the escalation of contemporary socioecological crises both analytically and normatively, it needs to put the growth qu…
Innovation assessment: Governing Through Periods of Disruptive Technological Change
Current regulatory approaches are ill-equipped to address the challenges of governing through periods of disruptive technological change. This article hones in on the use of assessment regimes at the level of the European Union, particularly in the work of the Commission, to argue for a missing middle between technology assessment and impact assessment. Technology assessment focuses on the upstream governance of science and technology, while impa…
Framing brain drain: Between solidarity and skills in European labor mobility
How do crisis perceptions interrelate with the emergence and re-constitution of policy problems? By using a novel combination of interviews with a content and network analysis of hand-coded parliamentary questions, this article maps the emergence of brain drain as a policy problem at the level of the European Union and follows the evolution of the issue over the last four parliamentary periods (from 1999 to 2019). I identify a skills storyline (e…
Narrating plastics governance: Policy narratives in the European plastics strategy
The European Union (EU) aspires to be an important global agenda-setter on how to treat and regulate the growing plastics problem. We present an analysis of the plastic policy narratives shaping European plastics governance, in particular through the European Commission’s Plastics Strategy. Our aim is to first uncover the policy narratives at play, and then examine how actors make use of those narratives through strategic construction. Based on i…
Reimagining growth futures: Overcoming the false binary between green growth and degrowth
Who are the green transition experts? Towards a new research agenda on climate change knowledge
Experts play a significant role in shaping global and local norms on how societies should respond to the climate crisis. However, current scholarship on the relationship between expertise and climate change has not fully addressed recent transformations in the field, specifically the emergence and increasingly influential role of what we term “green transition expertise.” We define green transition expertise as a more applied, normative, and cont…
Innovation assessment: Governing Through Periods of Disruptive Technological Change
Current regulatory approaches are ill-equipped to address the challenges of governing through periods of disruptive technological change. This article hones in on the use of assessment regimes at the level of the European Union, particularly in the work of the Commission, to argue for a missing middle between technology assessment and impact assessment. Technology assessment focuses on the upstream governance of science and technology, while impa…
Framing brain drain: Between solidarity and skills in European labor mobility
How do crisis perceptions interrelate with the emergence and re-constitution of policy problems? By using a novel combination of interviews with a content and network analysis of hand-coded parliamentary questions, this article maps the emergence of brain drain as a policy problem at the level of the European Union and follows the evolution of the issue over the last four parliamentary periods (from 1999 to 2019). I identify a skills storyline (e…
Power and politics in plastics research: A critique of “Whither Plastics”
Narrating plastics governance: Policy narratives in the European plastics strategy
The European Union (EU) aspires to be an important global agenda-setter on how to treat and regulate the growing plastics problem. We present an analysis of the plastic policy narratives shaping European plastics governance, in particular through the European Commission’s Plastics Strategy. Our aim is to first uncover the policy narratives at play, and then examine how actors make use of those narratives through strategic construction. Based on i…
Organizing for transformation: Post-growth in International Political Economy
The global political economy is organized around the pursuit of economic growth. Yet scholars of International Political Economy (IPE) have been surprisingly slow to address its wide-ranging implications and, thus, to advance debates about post-growth alternatives. The premise of the article is that for IPE to deepen its grasp of the escalation of contemporary socioecological crises both analytically and normatively, it needs to put the growth qu…
Who are the green transition experts? Towards a new research agenda on climate change knowledge
Experts play a significant role in shaping global and local norms on how societies should respond to the climate crisis. However, current scholarship on the relationship between expertise and climate change has not fully addressed recent transformations in the field, specifically the emergence and increasingly influential role of what we term “green transition expertise.” We define green transition expertise as a more applied, normative, and cont…
Dealing with dangerous abundance: Towards post-growth International Relations
Even though International Relations (IR) research increasingly recognises the unprecedented urgency of environmental degradation and the resulting ecological injustices, only few IR scholars have probed into the role of economic growth as a fundamental driver of global unsustainability. We level two critiques at the field of IR from a post-growth perspective. First, most IR theories are complicit in naturalising economic growth as a fundamental c…
Green economic planning for rapid decarbonisation
What Can the Environmental State Actually Do? Three Critiques and Their Limits
Three critiques of the environmental state shape the discussion of its possibilities and limits. First, states are deemed structurally unable to mitigate climate change due to the “glass ceiling” of systemic transformations. Second, governments play contradictory roles in sustainability transitions because of the manifold societal demands they are facing in an age of overlapping crises. Finally, state bureaucracies and agencies are often branded …
Reimagining growth futures: Overcoming the false binary between green growth and degrowth
Prefigurative plastic politics: Alternative organising in the global plastic economy
This article examines how grassroots and community-led initiatives engage in prefigurative politics, understood as building alternative futures in the present, in response to the global plastic crisis. Engaging with work on sustainable materialism and alternative organising, we introduce the concept of prefigurative plastic politics to capture how initiatives rework material and economic relations around plastics through spatially plural practice…
Epistemic derisking: Knowledge infrastructures in energy finance
Over the past decade, governments have increasingly sought to mobilise private capital for expanding renewable sources of energy for the goals of decarbonisation and energy security. While existing research has focused on the financial and regulatory tools that states deploy to reduce investor perceptions of risk, scant attention has been paid to the role of knowledge infrastructures in energy finance. In this article, we address this gap by anal…
How Niche Construction Shapes Organizational Fields and Populations
Niche Construction Theory (NCT), a recent offshoot of evolutionary biology, emphasizes how agents modify their surroundings and create organizational variation in an environment. Here we discuss how NCT can enrich the theorization of organization-environment interactions. As the global ecological situation continues to deteriorate, we must understand the capacity of organizations to both shape and adapt to their environments. NCT endogenizes the …
Political science (7 works) · Sustainability and Climate Change Governance (6 works) · Politics (5 works) · Economics (4 works) · Political economy (4 works) · Business (3 works) · Climate Change Policy and Economics (3 works) · Economic system (3 works) · Sociology (3 works) · Bioeconomy and Sustainability Development (2 works)