Helen Traill
Biographic Data
| ID | 298924 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Helen Traill |
| GIVEN NAMES | Helen |
| FAMILY NAME | Traill |
| SIGNATURE | TRAILL H |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Glasgow |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-2488-8265 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 19 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 6 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Beyond developmentalism in sustainability transitions: Thinking with post-development in the global north
Narratives around sustainability often rest on an implicit model of development, contrasting the capacities of the Global South versus North, or different regions within Europe, who are then seen as leaders or followers within the race to transition away from carbon-intensity. Against such tendencies, there is a need to deconstruct this story of carbon governance from the ground up, questioning the abstractions involved and attending to the every…
The limits to the urban within multi-scalar energy transitions: Agency, infrastructure and ownership in the UK and Germany
This article critically interrogates the over-emphasis upon urban solutions when considering complex and multi-scalar energy infrastructures that must transition to low-carbon intensity for a sustainable future. While urban actors can play an important role in energy transition, their interventions are riven with difficulties, and at times failure, as they encounter challenges of politics, capacity and agency in a broader and multi-scalar governa…
Value(s) in Community Food Work: The Dynamics of the Field, Funding and the Limits of Metrics
Despite talks of increasing data-saturation and the metric society, there are still many ordinary situations that are neither 'smart' nor digitised. Nevertheless, a logic of evidence and measurement can be demonstrated in the mundane spaces of community organisations, raising questions about how such logics travel and are engaged with in the everyday. Taking three everyday spaces, this article uncovers the dynamics of valuation in community organ…
Caring at the edges: Infrastructures of care and repair in urban deprivation
Care is an activity vital to making the world liveable. Alternative infrastructures of care have emerged that re-centre care and repair within everyday life. These infrastructures often require more care to address care deficits and repair the social fabric of society; however, insights are limited as to the implications of demands on people and the places they reside for such extra care. Through an ethnographic study of a community food hub in a…
The state of municipal energy transitions: Multi-scalar constraints and enablers of Europe’s post-carbon energy ambitions
There is increasing enthusiasm at urban and municipal scales for leading sustainability transitions, amid higher level endorsement and even expectation of such leadership. Yet this downscaling of responsibility for transition requires a greater critical focus. It raises questions of how evenly spread the capacity to lead on this is, and how it relates to the complex and differentiated multi-scalar governance structures and political landscapes wi…
The idea of community and its practice: Tensions, disruptions and hope in Glasgow's urban growing projects
The question of what community comes to mean has taken on increasing significance in sociological debates and beyond, as an increasingly politicised term and the focus of new theorisations. In this context, it is increasingly necessary to ask what is meant when community is invoked. Building on recent work that positions community as a practice and an ever-present facet of human sociality, this article argues that it is necessary to consider the …
Caring at the edges: Infrastructures of care and repair in urban deprivation
Care is an activity vital to making the world liveable. Alternative infrastructures of care have emerged that re-centre care and repair within everyday life. These infrastructures often require more care to address care deficits and repair the social fabric of society; however, insights are limited as to the implications of demands on people and the places they reside for such extra care. Through an ethnographic study of a community food hub in a…
The state of municipal energy transitions: Multi-scalar constraints and enablers of Europe’s post-carbon energy ambitions
There is increasing enthusiasm at urban and municipal scales for leading sustainability transitions, amid higher level endorsement and even expectation of such leadership. Yet this downscaling of responsibility for transition requires a greater critical focus. It raises questions of how evenly spread the capacity to lead on this is, and how it relates to the complex and differentiated multi-scalar governance structures and political landscapes wi…
The idea of community and its practice: Tensions, disruptions and hope in Glasgow's urban growing projects
The question of what community comes to mean has taken on increasing significance in sociological debates and beyond, as an increasingly politicised term and the focus of new theorisations. In this context, it is increasingly necessary to ask what is meant when community is invoked. Building on recent work that positions community as a practice and an ever-present facet of human sociality, this article argues that it is necessary to consider the …
Beyond developmentalism in sustainability transitions: Thinking with post-development in the global north
Narratives around sustainability often rest on an implicit model of development, contrasting the capacities of the Global South versus North, or different regions within Europe, who are then seen as leaders or followers within the race to transition away from carbon-intensity. Against such tendencies, there is a need to deconstruct this story of carbon governance from the ground up, questioning the abstractions involved and attending to the every…
The limits to the urban within multi-scalar energy transitions: Agency, infrastructure and ownership in the UK and Germany
This article critically interrogates the over-emphasis upon urban solutions when considering complex and multi-scalar energy infrastructures that must transition to low-carbon intensity for a sustainable future. While urban actors can play an important role in energy transition, their interventions are riven with difficulties, and at times failure, as they encounter challenges of politics, capacity and agency in a broader and multi-scalar governa…
The idea of community and its practice: Tensions, disruptions and hope in Glasgow's urban growing projects
The question of what community comes to mean has taken on increasing significance in sociological debates and beyond, as an increasingly politicised term and the focus of new theorisations. In this context, it is increasingly necessary to ask what is meant when community is invoked. Building on recent work that positions community as a practice and an ever-present facet of human sociality, this article argues that it is necessary to consider the …
The state of municipal energy transitions: Multi-scalar constraints and enablers of Europe’s post-carbon energy ambitions
There is increasing enthusiasm at urban and municipal scales for leading sustainability transitions, amid higher level endorsement and even expectation of such leadership. Yet this downscaling of responsibility for transition requires a greater critical focus. It raises questions of how evenly spread the capacity to lead on this is, and how it relates to the complex and differentiated multi-scalar governance structures and political landscapes wi…
Caring at the edges: Infrastructures of care and repair in urban deprivation
Care is an activity vital to making the world liveable. Alternative infrastructures of care have emerged that re-centre care and repair within everyday life. These infrastructures often require more care to address care deficits and repair the social fabric of society; however, insights are limited as to the implications of demands on people and the places they reside for such extra care. Through an ethnographic study of a community food hub in a…
Beyond developmentalism in sustainability transitions: Thinking with post-development in the global north
Narratives around sustainability often rest on an implicit model of development, contrasting the capacities of the Global South versus North, or different regions within Europe, who are then seen as leaders or followers within the race to transition away from carbon-intensity. Against such tendencies, there is a need to deconstruct this story of carbon governance from the ground up, questioning the abstractions involved and attending to the every…
The limits to the urban within multi-scalar energy transitions: Agency, infrastructure and ownership in the UK and Germany
This article critically interrogates the over-emphasis upon urban solutions when considering complex and multi-scalar energy infrastructures that must transition to low-carbon intensity for a sustainable future. While urban actors can play an important role in energy transition, their interventions are riven with difficulties, and at times failure, as they encounter challenges of politics, capacity and agency in a broader and multi-scalar governa…
Value(s) in Community Food Work: The Dynamics of the Field, Funding and the Limits of Metrics
Despite talks of increasing data-saturation and the metric society, there are still many ordinary situations that are neither 'smart' nor digitised. Nevertheless, a logic of evidence and measurement can be demonstrated in the mundane spaces of community organisations, raising questions about how such logics travel and are engaged with in the everyday. Taking three everyday spaces, this article uncovers the dynamics of valuation in community organ…
Sociology (5 works) · Political science (4 works) · Politics (4 works) · Corporate governance (3 works) · Economics (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Sustainability (3 works) · Urban Agriculture and Sustainability (3 works) · Agency (philosophy (2 works) · Economic system (2 works)