Contradiction, intervention, and urban low carbon transitions
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 5086593 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Vanesa Castán Broto (0000-0002-3175-9859, Development Planning Unit, Bartlett Faculty of the Built Environment, University College London, 34 Tavistock Square, London WC1H 9EZ, England, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2015 |
| Volume | 33 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 460-476 |
| Publication date | 2015-06-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Environment and Planning D Society and Space (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0263-7758 • E-ISSN: 1472-3433 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1068/d13050p |
| OpenAlex | W2140538075 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 23 |
| References cited | 48 |
This paper presents an analysis of contradictions in urban low carbon transitions as engines of change. Following Kojève's reading of contradiction in Hegel's oeuvre, I argue that contradiction is a constitutive feature of low carbon interventions. This is an alternative to conventional readings of contradiction as a provisional encounter of opposites in which one will eventually cancel out the other. I unpack the concept of contra diction in three ways: first, by displaying a Hegelian-inspired understanding of contradiction in relation to change, time, and desire; second, by explaining how inherent contradictions can also be read in relation to the excesses that characterize the deployment of methods of calculation in low carbon interventions; and third, by situating these contradictions within the overall dynamics of carbon governance and purposive attempts to bring about a low carbon transition. The paper explores the practical implications of this analysis in a case of low carbon interventions in social housing in Ljubljana, Slovenia. The case study shows that, if contradictions are at the heart of low carbon interventions, contradiction analysis may provide a direction towards broader reconfigurations of social and technological practices and generate a desire to change
Contradiction · Dialectic · Diction · Epistemology · Hegelianism · Linguistics · Political science · Psychological intervention · Reading (process · Relation (database · Sociology · Computer Science · Housing, Finance, and Neoliberalism · Law · Philosophy · Psychology · Sustainability and Climate Change Governance
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| Unique citing works | 23 |
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| Citations per year | 2,56 |
| Citation span | 2017 - 2025 (9) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 23 |