D Tyfield
Biographic Data
| ID | 53844 |
|---|---|
| NAME | D Tyfield |
| GIVEN NAMES | D |
| FAMILY NAME | Tyfield |
| SIGNATURE | TYFIELD D |
| AFFILIATIONS | Lancaster University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-2957-780X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 43 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 383 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 43 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2008 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 13 |
Just transition as transition in justice: Really learning from, about and with China
Professor Kevin Mark Hannam (1971–2025)
Obituary: Professor Kevin Mark Hannam (1971–2025)
Digitalised higher education: Key Developments, Questions, and Concerns
Higher education is already profoundly digitalised. Students, academics, and university administrators routinely use digital technologies, many of which rely on data, including artificial intelligence. Universities aim to operate as data-powered organisations to support institutional efficiency and the personalisation of learning and student experience. These developments are occurring against the backdrop of university digital infrastructure mov…
Unlocking the evaluation of university‐business collaborations on sustainable regional development: A comprehensive review and framework for place‐based policy initiatives
University‐business collaborations (UBCs) are widely recognised as a key component within the sustainability effort, yet the literature on how we articulate the value which collaborations contribute towards a wider sustainable regional development agenda remains fragmented and disorganised, lacking synthesis and cumulativeness. Based on a recognised need to critically assess the state of the field, this paper presents a systematic review of a wid…
Sweet dreams? Testing prognostics and reinterpreting sugarcane ethanol biofuel in Brazil
We present a framework regarding analysis of, and engagement with, socio-technical innovations and power/knowledge trajectories for sugarcane ethanol biofuel in Brazil, testing post hoc our prognostics against recent factual evidence. This assessment offers evidence regarding the value of such analysis, given the relative rarity of research that revisits anticipated changes in Science and Technology Studies. Contending that learning and improving…
Attractions of delay: Using deliberative engagement to investigate the political and strategic impacts of greenhouse gas removal technologies
Concerns have been raised that a focus on greenhouse gas removals (GGR) in climate models, scientific literature and other media might deter measures to mitigate climate change through reduction of emissions at source - the phenomenon of 'mitigation deterrence'. Given the urgent need for climate action, any delay in emissions reduction would be worrying. We convened nine deliberative workshops to expose stakeholders to futures scenarios involving…
Life in the hole: Practices and emotions in the cultural political economy of mitigation deterrence
Negative emissions techniques (NETs) promise to capture greenhouse gases from the atmosphere and sequester them. Since decarbonisation efforts have been slow, and the climate crisis is intensifying, it is increasingly likely that removing greenhouse gases from the atmosphere will be necessary to meet internationally-agreed targets. Yet there are fears that pursuing NETs might undermine other mitigation efforts, primarily the reduction (rather tha…
On the heterogeneity in consumer preferences for electric vehicles across generations and cities in China
Digitalisation, sustainable industrialisation and digital rebound – Asking the right questions for a strategic research agenda
Digitalisation is likely to change established economic development processes. This raises questions about the distribution of the potential welfare gains from industrialisation highlighted by, among others, the UN Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 9 ‘sustainable industrialisation’. In parallel, industrialisation and digitalisation must be made environmentally sustainable if other pressing sustainability goals, such as climate change mitigation …
Governing complexity: Interview with David Tyfield
Pandemic (Im)mobilities
As the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus swept around the world in 2020, outpacing public health efforts to contain it, many everyday human mobilities were brought to an abrupt halt, while others were drastic
Low-Carbon Transition as Vehicle of New Inequalities? Risk-Class, the Chinese Middle-Class and the Moral Economy of Misrecognition
Low-carbon innovation is usually depicted as an exemplar of pursuit of the common good, in both mainstream policy discussion and the emerging orthodoxy of transition studies. Yet it may emerge as a key means of intensifying inequality. We analyse low-carbon innovation as a social and political process through the prism of differential risk-classes, focusing on the pivotal global case of emergence of the Chinese middle-class in seaboard megacities…
Towards global relational theorizing: A dialogue between Sinophone and Anglophone scholarship on relationalism
What is ‘relational theorizing’ in International Relations and what can it offer? This article introduces a thematic section that responds to these questions by showing two things. First, relational theorizing is not a doctrine or a method, but a set of analyses that begin with relations rather than the putative essences of constitutively autonomous actors. Second, relational theorizing has emerged from different geo-linguistic traditions, and a …
Where is the politics? E-bike mobility in urban China and civilizational government
In this study we look at everyday politics of electric bike mobility by exploring the social practices of e-bike users in order to understand the role of e-bikes in emerging low-carbon mobility system in China, asking 'where is the politics of the E2W in contemporary China?' We explore the underlying political tensions in electric two-wheeler mobility by examining family and informal e-bike journeys. We argue that 'civilizational' government pers…
Towards a cultural political economy of mitigation deterrence by negative emissions technologies (NETs)
Non-technical summary In the face of limited carbon budgets, negative emissions technologies (NETs) offer hopes of removing greenhouse gases from the atmosphere. It is difficult to determine whether the prospect of NETs is significantly deterring or delaying timely action to cut emissions. This paper sets out a novel theoretical perspective to this challenge, enabling analysis that accounts for interactions between technologies, society and polit…
Critical perspectives on disruptive innovation and energy transformation
Innovating innovation—Disruptive innovation in China and the low-carbon transition of capitalism
Disruptive innovation offers significant promise regarding expedited global low-carbon transition, set against currently inadequate efforts. In order to appreciate its significance, however, disruptive low-carbon innovation must be analysed in the light of three key shifts in perspective: to an analysis of system transition and low-carbon innovation itself in terms of power/knowledge; to appraisal of the significance of digital innovation (simila…
Green Keynesianism: Bringing the Entrepreneurial State Back in(to Question)
Since the global financial crisis of 2007/8, proliferating calls for a Keynesian Green New Deal have cast the publicly (and environmentally) minded state as a necessary driver of technological innovation and social transformation, while, vice versa, innovation has moved to political centre-stage. The history and genesis of this particular Green Keynesian paradigm illustrate that some of its most high-profile proponents selectively and problematic…
The political economy of technical fixes: The (mis)alignment of clean fossil and political regimes
Doing methodological cosmopolitanism in a mobile world
A decade of mobilities research has responded to the key question of how a ‘world on the move’ can and should be studied, including in terms of futures thereby brought into view and possibly shaped into being. What happens, however, if we shift our focus from the ‘world on the move’ to the ‘world on the move’, with all the cosmopolitical diversity this highlights? This paper explores this question regarding the parallel research programme of meth…
Mobility intersections: Social Research, Social Futures
This special issue seeks to deepen conversations at the intersections between mobilities research and a number of adjacent fields. Contributions explore how mobilities research has emerged and travelled along with a range of approaches concerned with the lived production of socio-material orders, such as science and technology studies, non-representational and feminist theory, critical and speculative design and cosmopolitanism, to name but a few…
Realizing the Beckian Vision: Cosmopolitan Cosmopolitanism and Low-Carbon China as Political Education
Methodological cosmopolitanism' connotes a profound transformation of the (social) sciences as forms of public reflexive social analysis on learning to live well together through building homes in the world: what may be called the 'Beckian vision', in memory of Ulrich Beck. This short note considers how Beck's concept of emancipatory catastrophism may not be the most productive development of his own programme. This is precisely brought out by a …
‘What is to be Done?’ Insights and Blind Spots from Cultural Political Economy(s)
As 2015 rolls on, the sense of a world in the midst of multiple overlapping systemic crises remains palpable and more intense and foreboding than ever. In critical realist parlance, underlying tendencies have erupted into the actual and it seems once again that we are entering a ‘new world’. The assassination attacks in Paris, the gruesome beheadings and burnings by ISIS, the election of Syriza in Greece with no accommodation still from Germany a…
Socio-economic data for global environmental change research
Pandemic (Im)mobilities
As the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus swept around the world in 2020, outpacing public health efforts to contain it, many everyday human mobilities were brought to an abrupt halt, while others were drastic
Theorizing the Bioeconomy: Biovalue, Biocapital, Bioeconomics or . . . What
In the policy discourses of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) and European Commission (EC), modern biotechnology and the life sciences are represented as an emerging "bioeconomy" in which the latent value underpinning biological materials and products offers the opportunity for sustainable economic growth. This articulation of modern biotechnology and economic development is an emerging scholarly field producing num…
Mobility intersections: Social Research, Social Futures
This special issue seeks to deepen conversations at the intersections between mobilities research and a number of adjacent fields. Contributions explore how mobilities research has emerged and travelled along with a range of approaches concerned with the lived production of socio-material orders, such as science and technology studies, non-representational and feminist theory, critical and speculative design and cosmopolitanism, to name but a few…
Towards global relational theorizing: A dialogue between Sinophone and Anglophone scholarship on relationalism
What is ‘relational theorizing’ in International Relations and what can it offer? This article introduces a thematic section that responds to these questions by showing two things. First, relational theorizing is not a doctrine or a method, but a set of analyses that begin with relations rather than the putative essences of constitutively autonomous actors. Second, relational theorizing has emerged from different geo-linguistic traditions, and a …
Attractions of delay: Using deliberative engagement to investigate the political and strategic impacts of greenhouse gas removal technologies
Concerns have been raised that a focus on greenhouse gas removals (GGR) in climate models, scientific literature and other media might deter measures to mitigate climate change through reduction of emissions at source - the phenomenon of 'mitigation deterrence'. Given the urgent need for climate action, any delay in emissions reduction would be worrying. We convened nine deliberative workshops to expose stakeholders to futures scenarios involving…
Putting the Power in 'Socio-Technical Regimes' - E-Mobility Transition in China as Political Process
A mobility low-carbon transition is a key issue both socially and for mobilities research. The multi-level perspective (MLP) is justifiably a leading approach in such research, with important connections to high-profile socio-technical systemic analyses within the mobilities paradigm. The paper explores the key contributions that a Foucauldian-inspired cultural political economy offers, going beyond central problems with the MLP, specifically reg…
Cosmopolitan communities of climate risk: Conceptual and Empirical Suggestions for a New Research Agenda
Mitigating human-induced climate change calls for a globalized change of consciousness and practice. These global challenges also demand a double transformation of the social sciences - first, from 'methodological nationalism' to 'methodological cosmopolitanism' and, second, an empirical reorientation towards 'cosmopolitization' as the social force of emerging cosmopolitan realities. One of these realities is the possible emergence, locally and g…
Introduction to Special Issue on 'Mobilities and Foucault
The most well-known of these descriptions holds that governmentality is 'the ensemble formed by institutions, procedures, analyses and reflections, calculations, and tactics that allow the exercise of this very specific, albeit very complex, power that has the population as its target, political economy as its major form of knowledge, and apparatuses of security as its essential technical instrument' (Foucault 2007, 108
King Coal is Dead! Long Live the King: The Paradoxes of Coal's Resurgence in the Emergence of Global Low-Carbon Societies
Much discourse on low-carbon transition envisages progressive social change towards environmentally sustainable and more equitable societies. Yet much of this literature pays inadequate attention to the key question of (productive, relational) power. How do energy infrastructures and socio-technical systems interact with, construct, enable and constrain political regimes, and vice versa? Conceiving low-carbon energy transitions through a power le…
A Cultural Political Economy of Research and Innovation in an Age of Crisis
Where is the politics? E-bike mobility in urban China and civilizational government
In this study we look at everyday politics of electric bike mobility by exploring the social practices of e-bike users in order to understand the role of e-bikes in emerging low-carbon mobility system in China, asking 'where is the politics of the E2W in contemporary China?' We explore the underlying political tensions in electric two-wheeler mobility by examining family and informal e-bike journeys. We argue that 'civilizational' government pers…
Low Carbon Innovation in China: From Overlooked Opportunities and Challenges to Transitions in Power Relations and Practices
This paper explores environmental innovation in the largest emerging economy – China – and its potential for contributing to global transitions to low‐carbon, more sustainable patterns of development. It builds on earlier studies bringing alternative forms of low(er)‐technology, ‘below‐the‐radar', ‘disruptive' and/or social innovation into its analysis. In addition, however, the paper develops our understanding of low‐carbon innovation by paying …
Cosmopolitan China? Lessons from international collaboration in low-carbon innovation
Cosmopolitanism is the focus of much current debate. This literature, however, is marked by a relative paucity of detailed research that examines the impact of cosmopolitanism as a social force within different societies. In particular, two topics that have received little attention despite their utter importance for current global challenges are the scale and impact of cosmopolitanism in China and the significance of 'cosmopolitan innovation'. T…
The political economy of technical fixes: The (mis)alignment of clean fossil and political regimes
Low-Carbon Transition as Vehicle of New Inequalities? Risk-Class, the Chinese Middle-Class and the Moral Economy of Misrecognition
Low-carbon innovation is usually depicted as an exemplar of pursuit of the common good, in both mainstream policy discussion and the emerging orthodoxy of transition studies. Yet it may emerge as a key means of intensifying inequality. We analyse low-carbon innovation as a social and political process through the prism of differential risk-classes, focusing on the pivotal global case of emergence of the Chinese middle-class in seaboard megacities…
Green Keynesianism: Bringing the Entrepreneurial State Back in(to Question)
Since the global financial crisis of 2007/8, proliferating calls for a Keynesian Green New Deal have cast the publicly (and environmentally) minded state as a necessary driver of technological innovation and social transformation, while, vice versa, innovation has moved to political centre-stage. The history and genesis of this particular Green Keynesian paradigm illustrate that some of its most high-profile proponents selectively and problematic…
Doing methodological cosmopolitanism in a mobile world
A decade of mobilities research has responded to the key question of how a ‘world on the move’ can and should be studied, including in terms of futures thereby brought into view and possibly shaped into being. What happens, however, if we shift our focus from the ‘world on the move’ to the ‘world on the move’, with all the cosmopolitical diversity this highlights? This paper explores this question regarding the parallel research programme of meth…
Innovating innovation—Disruptive innovation in China and the low-carbon transition of capitalism
Disruptive innovation offers significant promise regarding expedited global low-carbon transition, set against currently inadequate efforts. In order to appreciate its significance, however, disruptive low-carbon innovation must be analysed in the light of three key shifts in perspective: to an analysis of system transition and low-carbon innovation itself in terms of power/knowledge; to appraisal of the significance of digital innovation (simila…
Enabling TRIPs: The pharma–biotech–university patent coalition
The dominant player behind the Trade-Related Intellectual Property (TRIPs) agreement, as regards patents, was a handful of American pharmaceutical transnational corporations ('big pharma'). Given that TRIPs was exceptionally controversial, how was US big pharma uniquely enabled to command the entire trade diplomatic machinery of the US and, through that, enact global law in its favour? This paper explores one crucial factor in the enacting of TRI…
Life in the hole: Practices and emotions in the cultural political economy of mitigation deterrence
Negative emissions techniques (NETs) promise to capture greenhouse gases from the atmosphere and sequester them. Since decarbonisation efforts have been slow, and the climate crisis is intensifying, it is increasingly likely that removing greenhouse gases from the atmosphere will be necessary to meet internationally-agreed targets. Yet there are fears that pursuing NETs might undermine other mitigation efforts, primarily the reduction (rather tha…
Critical perspectives on disruptive innovation and energy transformation
Social Movements in China and Hong Kong: The Expansion of Protest Space
Digitalised higher education: Key Developments, Questions, and Concerns
Higher education is already profoundly digitalised. Students, academics, and university administrators routinely use digital technologies, many of which rely on data, including artificial intelligence. Universities aim to operate as data-powered organisations to support institutional efficiency and the personalisation of learning and student experience. These developments are occurring against the backdrop of university digital infrastructure mov…
Realizing the Beckian Vision: Cosmopolitan Cosmopolitanism and Low-Carbon China as Political Education
Methodological cosmopolitanism' connotes a profound transformation of the (social) sciences as forms of public reflexive social analysis on learning to live well together through building homes in the world: what may be called the 'Beckian vision', in memory of Ulrich Beck. This short note considers how Beck's concept of emancipatory catastrophism may not be the most productive development of his own programme. This is precisely brought out by a …
Cosmopolitan China
SozW Soziale Welt , Seite 277 - 293
Modern Science and the Capriciousness of Nature. By Karl Rogers
Rethinking Marxism: From Kant and Hegel to Marx and Engels. By Jolyon Agar
(2008). Rethinking Marxism: From Kant and Hegel to Marx and Engels. By Jolyon Agar. Journal of Critical Realism: Vol. 7, No. 2, pp. 330-337
Enabling TRIPs: The pharma–biotech–university patent coalition
The dominant player behind the Trade-Related Intellectual Property (TRIPs) agreement, as regards patents, was a handful of American pharmaceutical transnational corporations ('big pharma'). Given that TRIPs was exceptionally controversial, how was US big pharma uniquely enabled to command the entire trade diplomatic machinery of the US and, through that, enact global law in its favour? This paper explores one crucial factor in the enacting of TRI…
A Surplus of ‘Surplus’
Cosmopolitan China? Lessons from international collaboration in low-carbon innovation
Cosmopolitanism is the focus of much current debate. This literature, however, is marked by a relative paucity of detailed research that examines the impact of cosmopolitanism as a social force within different societies. In particular, two topics that have received little attention despite their utter importance for current global challenges are the scale and impact of cosmopolitanism in China and the significance of 'cosmopolitan innovation'. T…
Cosmopolitan China
SozW Soziale Welt , Seite 277 - 293
Social Movements in China and Hong Kong: The Expansion of Protest Space
A Cultural Political Economy of Research and Innovation in an Age of Crisis
The Demise of Capitalism: Lessons from an Entropic Perspective on the Current Crises
How are we to understand the multiple overlapping crises of the present? In a superbly enlightening synthesis of Marxian (critique of) political economy and systems theory, Robert Biel presents a compelling case for the importance of an entropic perspective, regarding both thermodynamic and informational flows that constitute and transform social systems. This perspective offers an insightful analysis of neoliberalism as an attempt to harness the…
Theorizing the Bioeconomy: Biovalue, Biocapital, Bioeconomics or . . . What
In the policy discourses of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) and European Commission (EC), modern biotechnology and the life sciences are represented as an emerging "bioeconomy" in which the latent value underpinning biological materials and products offers the opportunity for sustainable economic growth. This articulation of modern biotechnology and economic development is an emerging scholarly field producing num…
Cosmopolitan communities of climate risk: Conceptual and Empirical Suggestions for a New Research Agenda
Mitigating human-induced climate change calls for a globalized change of consciousness and practice. These global challenges also demand a double transformation of the social sciences - first, from 'methodological nationalism' to 'methodological cosmopolitanism' and, second, an empirical reorientation towards 'cosmopolitization' as the social force of emerging cosmopolitan realities. One of these realities is the possible emergence, locally and g…
Responsible innovation across borders: Tensions, paradoxes and possibilities
In March 2014 a group of early career researchers and academics from São Paulo state and from the UK met at the University of Campinas to participate in a workshop on ‘Responsible Innovation and the Governance of Socially Controversial Technologies’. In this Perspective we describe key reflections and observations from the workshop discussions, paying particular attention to the discourse of responsible innovation from a cross-cultural perspectiv…
Putting the Power in 'Socio-Technical Regimes' - E-Mobility Transition in China as Political Process
A mobility low-carbon transition is a key issue both socially and for mobilities research. The multi-level perspective (MLP) is justifiably a leading approach in such research, with important connections to high-profile socio-technical systemic analyses within the mobilities paradigm. The paper explores the key contributions that a Foucauldian-inspired cultural political economy offers, going beyond central problems with the MLP, specifically reg…
Introduction to Special Issue on 'Mobilities and Foucault
The most well-known of these descriptions holds that governmentality is 'the ensemble formed by institutions, procedures, analyses and reflections, calculations, and tactics that allow the exercise of this very specific, albeit very complex, power that has the population as its target, political economy as its major form of knowledge, and apparatuses of security as its essential technical instrument' (Foucault 2007, 108
King Coal is Dead! Long Live the King: The Paradoxes of Coal's Resurgence in the Emergence of Global Low-Carbon Societies
Much discourse on low-carbon transition envisages progressive social change towards environmentally sustainable and more equitable societies. Yet much of this literature pays inadequate attention to the key question of (productive, relational) power. How do energy infrastructures and socio-technical systems interact with, construct, enable and constrain political regimes, and vice versa? Conceiving low-carbon energy transitions through a power le…
‘What is to be Done?’ Insights and Blind Spots from Cultural Political Economy(s)
As 2015 rolls on, the sense of a world in the midst of multiple overlapping systemic crises remains palpable and more intense and foreboding than ever. In critical realist parlance, underlying tendencies have erupted into the actual and it seems once again that we are entering a ‘new world’. The assassination attacks in Paris, the gruesome beheadings and burnings by ISIS, the election of Syriza in Greece with no accommodation still from Germany a…
Socio-economic data for global environmental change research
‘Meet the New Boss … Same as the Old boss?’ Technology, toil and tension in the agrofuel frontier
Agrofuels are increasingly sourced and sold as a socially and environmentally beneficial solution to oil dependence. The promotion of sugar‐derived ethanol as a substitute for petroleum has thus been key to state development and international trade policies by B razil and the E uropean U nion, respectively, and subsequent investment by leading energy and food transnational corporations has transformed socio‐spatial relations in the new sites of p…
Low Carbon Innovation in China: From Overlooked Opportunities and Challenges to Transitions in Power Relations and Practices
This paper explores environmental innovation in the largest emerging economy – China – and its potential for contributing to global transitions to low‐carbon, more sustainable patterns of development. It builds on earlier studies bringing alternative forms of low(er)‐technology, ‘below‐the‐radar', ‘disruptive' and/or social innovation into its analysis. In addition, however, the paper develops our understanding of low‐carbon innovation by paying …
Inovação responsável através de fronteiras: Tensões, Paradoxos E Possibilidades
Este artigo explora as tensões, paradoxos e possibilidades da inovação responsável em contextos transnacionais. Argumenta-se que a inovação responsável, embora apresente um potencial transformador, enfrenta desafios significativos quando aplicada em diferentes culturas e sistemas de governança. O artigo destaca a importância de considerar as especificidades locais e a necessidade de abordagens flexíveis e adaptativas para promover a inovação resp…
The political economy of technical fixes: The (mis)alignment of clean fossil and political regimes
Doing methodological cosmopolitanism in a mobile world
A decade of mobilities research has responded to the key question of how a ‘world on the move’ can and should be studied, including in terms of futures thereby brought into view and possibly shaped into being. What happens, however, if we shift our focus from the ‘world on the move’ to the ‘world on the move’, with all the cosmopolitical diversity this highlights? This paper explores this question regarding the parallel research programme of meth…
Mobility intersections: Social Research, Social Futures
This special issue seeks to deepen conversations at the intersections between mobilities research and a number of adjacent fields. Contributions explore how mobilities research has emerged and travelled along with a range of approaches concerned with the lived production of socio-material orders, such as science and technology studies, non-representational and feminist theory, critical and speculative design and cosmopolitanism, to name but a few…
Realizing the Beckian Vision: Cosmopolitan Cosmopolitanism and Low-Carbon China as Political Education
Methodological cosmopolitanism' connotes a profound transformation of the (social) sciences as forms of public reflexive social analysis on learning to live well together through building homes in the world: what may be called the 'Beckian vision', in memory of Ulrich Beck. This short note considers how Beck's concept of emancipatory catastrophism may not be the most productive development of his own programme. This is precisely brought out by a …
Critical perspectives on disruptive innovation and energy transformation
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