Agata Stasik
Biographic Data
| ID | 4047733 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Agata Stasik |
| GIVEN NAMES | Agata |
| FAMILY NAME | Stasik |
| SIGNATURE | STASIK A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Kozminski University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-4761-9148 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 56 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 13 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Bricolage as an early-niche mechanism
Energy transitions depend on socio-technical innovations such as energy communities, often studied where they are already well established. Far less is known about how such initiatives take shape before a recognisable niche and its protective structures have formed. Research on strategic niche management explains how niches develop once such structures exist, but says little about how actors assemble workable configurations before they do. To add…
Beyond trade-offs
This paper introduces dual-use social innovations (DUSI) as a conceptual and practical framework for integrating security concerns into visioning and planning for sustainable futures. The effective development of DUSI depends on future visions that explicitly unite sustainable transition and security risks – priorities too often considered in isolation. By going beyond trade-offs and intentionally combining these imperatives, DUSI strengthen soci…
Transforming Energy Systems, Transforming Social Science
The accelerating climate change and biodiversity crisis necessitate an unprecedented mobilisation of resources for a sustainable transition. This article explores how the anticipated contribution of social science to this transition requires a redefinition of social researchers’ roles. Drawing on sustainable transition studies, actor–network theory’s concept of translation, and insights from a transdisciplinary research project supporting stakeho…
The Social Energy of Transition
Good evening, I'm Marta Strumiska-Kutra and I am very pleased to moderate today's meeting.I think we can expect a really dynamic and interesting exchange of views and experiences, because the format allows us to include the voices of practitioners, as well as theoreticians and researchers.Four guests have been invited to join our panel discussion.I hereby open our meeting and invite Agata to introduce the book.Agata Stasik: First of all, thank yo…
After Fossil Modernity
Sociology is a late child of western modernity.As an institutionalised system of knowledge, it was born of accelerated urbanisation, the spread of capitalist labour relations, and other fundamental social changes that were part of the overall process known as industrialisation (Smil 2018).Machines powered by energy from burning fossil fuels -especially coal and oil -were the driving force of the process.The western societies studied by the classi…
Getting warmed up
Power to, over and with
This paper explores how power relations are manifested, altered and/or reproduced in processes of social innovations in energy transitions (SIE). We explore this research question by developing an interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary power heuristic building on different dimensions of power: power to, power over and power with. This conceptual framework helps us analyse the power dynamics in multiple types of SIEs that aim to contribute to sus…
Public involvement in risk governance in the internet era
The article draws attention to the multidirectional impact of the widespread Internet communication on public involvement in risk governance processes. The prevalence of Internet communication changes the rules of building credibility and trust, and a position of expert knowledge. As online peer-to-peer information are not verified by any single trustworthy institution, the expert community often perceives it as a source of disturbance in risk go…
Beyond instrumentalism
Social innovation is an important dimension of current transformations in energy systems. It can refer to alternative business models, novel policy instruments, financing schemes, participatory governance approaches to energy questions, or new discourses. Its significance for energy systems is often considered in narrow instrumentalist terms, reducing it to a tool serving particular policy objectives. Grounding the concept in social science and h…
Anecdotal evidence
In the paper, we propose a new focus in qualitative organization studies, which we call organizational anecdotal evidence. The novelty of our method is in linking storytelling, studies of organizational anecdotes, and humor studies. We claim that organizational anecdotes, jokes, and short fictional stories should become a core object of organizational culture analysis, rather than be refuted as unimportant. This is so because the study of organiz…
Praktykowanie nielegalności. Ekonomia śliwowicy łąckiej
Artykuł jest oparty na etnograficznych badaniach terenowych i dotyczy produkcji oraz dystrybucji śliwowicy łąckiej, a także sieciom powiązań lokalnej gospodarki owocowej ze strukturami państwa. Autorka przedstawia, w jaki sposób i dlaczego poszczególni aktorzy społeczni decydują o wykorzystaniu śliwek z łąckich sadów. Odpowiada również na pytanie, w jaki sposób to, co uznawane za nieformalne/nielegalne przenika się w Łącku z formalnym/legalnym. T…
Hybrid forums, knowledge deficits and the multiple uncertainties of resource extraction
Global controversies in local settings
In this era of global challenges in energy policy, the importance of siting of facilities connected to development of energy system is greater than ever. At the same time, spreading of these facilities has often been controversial in surrounding communities. This article advances the debate on this phenomenon by focusing on an aspect of siting controversies that has become a game changer in recent years but has received remarkably little attentio…
Beyond instrumentalism
Social innovation is an important dimension of current transformations in energy systems. It can refer to alternative business models, novel policy instruments, financing schemes, participatory governance approaches to energy questions, or new discourses. Its significance for energy systems is often considered in narrow instrumentalist terms, reducing it to a tool serving particular policy objectives. Grounding the concept in social science and h…
Power to, over and with
This paper explores how power relations are manifested, altered and/or reproduced in processes of social innovations in energy transitions (SIE). We explore this research question by developing an interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary power heuristic building on different dimensions of power: power to, power over and power with. This conceptual framework helps us analyse the power dynamics in multiple types of SIEs that aim to contribute to sus…
Hybrid forums, knowledge deficits and the multiple uncertainties of resource extraction
Global controversies in local settings
In this era of global challenges in energy policy, the importance of siting of facilities connected to development of energy system is greater than ever. At the same time, spreading of these facilities has often been controversial in surrounding communities. This article advances the debate on this phenomenon by focusing on an aspect of siting controversies that has become a game changer in recent years but has received remarkably little attentio…
Public involvement in risk governance in the internet era
The article draws attention to the multidirectional impact of the widespread Internet communication on public involvement in risk governance processes. The prevalence of Internet communication changes the rules of building credibility and trust, and a position of expert knowledge. As online peer-to-peer information are not verified by any single trustworthy institution, the expert community often perceives it as a source of disturbance in risk go…
Getting warmed up
Hybrid forums, knowledge deficits and the multiple uncertainties of resource extraction
Global controversies in local settings
In this era of global challenges in energy policy, the importance of siting of facilities connected to development of energy system is greater than ever. At the same time, spreading of these facilities has often been controversial in surrounding communities. This article advances the debate on this phenomenon by focusing on an aspect of siting controversies that has become a game changer in recent years but has received remarkably little attentio…
Anecdotal evidence
In the paper, we propose a new focus in qualitative organization studies, which we call organizational anecdotal evidence. The novelty of our method is in linking storytelling, studies of organizational anecdotes, and humor studies. We claim that organizational anecdotes, jokes, and short fictional stories should become a core object of organizational culture analysis, rather than be refuted as unimportant. This is so because the study of organiz…
Praktykowanie nielegalności. Ekonomia śliwowicy łąckiej
Artykuł jest oparty na etnograficznych badaniach terenowych i dotyczy produkcji oraz dystrybucji śliwowicy łąckiej, a także sieciom powiązań lokalnej gospodarki owocowej ze strukturami państwa. Autorka przedstawia, w jaki sposób i dlaczego poszczególni aktorzy społeczni decydują o wykorzystaniu śliwek z łąckich sadów. Odpowiada również na pytanie, w jaki sposób to, co uznawane za nieformalne/nielegalne przenika się w Łącku z formalnym/legalnym. T…
Beyond instrumentalism
Social innovation is an important dimension of current transformations in energy systems. It can refer to alternative business models, novel policy instruments, financing schemes, participatory governance approaches to energy questions, or new discourses. Its significance for energy systems is often considered in narrow instrumentalist terms, reducing it to a tool serving particular policy objectives. Grounding the concept in social science and h…
Public involvement in risk governance in the internet era
The article draws attention to the multidirectional impact of the widespread Internet communication on public involvement in risk governance processes. The prevalence of Internet communication changes the rules of building credibility and trust, and a position of expert knowledge. As online peer-to-peer information are not verified by any single trustworthy institution, the expert community often perceives it as a source of disturbance in risk go…
Power to, over and with
This paper explores how power relations are manifested, altered and/or reproduced in processes of social innovations in energy transitions (SIE). We explore this research question by developing an interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary power heuristic building on different dimensions of power: power to, power over and power with. This conceptual framework helps us analyse the power dynamics in multiple types of SIEs that aim to contribute to sus…
Transforming Energy Systems, Transforming Social Science
The accelerating climate change and biodiversity crisis necessitate an unprecedented mobilisation of resources for a sustainable transition. This article explores how the anticipated contribution of social science to this transition requires a redefinition of social researchers’ roles. Drawing on sustainable transition studies, actor–network theory’s concept of translation, and insights from a transdisciplinary research project supporting stakeho…
The Social Energy of Transition
Good evening, I'm Marta Strumiska-Kutra and I am very pleased to moderate today's meeting.I think we can expect a really dynamic and interesting exchange of views and experiences, because the format allows us to include the voices of practitioners, as well as theoreticians and researchers.Four guests have been invited to join our panel discussion.I hereby open our meeting and invite Agata to introduce the book.Agata Stasik: First of all, thank yo…
After Fossil Modernity
Sociology is a late child of western modernity.As an institutionalised system of knowledge, it was born of accelerated urbanisation, the spread of capitalist labour relations, and other fundamental social changes that were part of the overall process known as industrialisation (Smil 2018).Machines powered by energy from burning fossil fuels -especially coal and oil -were the driving force of the process.The western societies studied by the classi…
Getting warmed up
Bricolage as an early-niche mechanism
Energy transitions depend on socio-technical innovations such as energy communities, often studied where they are already well established. Far less is known about how such initiatives take shape before a recognisable niche and its protective structures have formed. Research on strategic niche management explains how niches develop once such structures exist, but says little about how actors assemble workable configurations before they do. To add…
Beyond trade-offs
This paper introduces dual-use social innovations (DUSI) as a conceptual and practical framework for integrating security concerns into visioning and planning for sustainable futures. The effective development of DUSI depends on future visions that explicitly unite sustainable transition and security risks – priorities too often considered in isolation. By going beyond trade-offs and intentionally combining these imperatives, DUSI strengthen soci…
Political science (6 works) · Computer Science (5 works) · Sociology (4 works) · Sustainability and Climate Change Governance (4 works) · Business (3 works) · Corporate governance (3 works) · Economics (3 works) · Global Energy and Sustainability Research (3 works) · Knowledge management (3 works) · Law (3 works)