Electric carsharing and the sustainable mobility transition : Conflict and contestation in a Czech actor-network

Result code in IS VaVaI

<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F00216224%3A14230%2F21%3A00121221" target="_blank" >RIV/00216224:14230/21:00121221 - isvavai.cz</a>

Result on the web

<a href="https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2214629621000645" target="_blank" >https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2214629621000645</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.erss.2021.101971" target="_blank" >10.1016/j.erss.2021.101971</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Electric carsharing and the sustainable mobility transition : Conflict and contestation in a Czech actor-network

Original language description

The energy transition has seen greater progress in some areas than others. Although it accounts for a significant portion of global greenhouse gas emissions, the transportation sector has hardly broken its high dependence on oil. Within the transportation sector, passenger road transport plays a considerable role in terms of both energy consumption and emissions. This paper, therefore, aims to contribute to the knowledge and theory of sustainability transitions in passenger road transportation by addressing the question, “How do actors and technologies interact to shape the process of sustainability transitions in road transport?” To help answer this question, Actor-Network Theory is applied to a local-level case study of an electric carsharing company in Brno, Czech Republic. A review of the energy transitions literature revealed ANT as a fruitful methodological toolbox due to its unique ontology and concepts. The study reveals that both the human and non-human actors within this network indeed play crucial roles that influence its successful expansion. These roles are often contested and negotiated by the various actors, thereby dictating the development of these associations as well as the actor-network as a whole. Moreover, the roles and associations within this network in many instances emerge not through human intention or agency but in response to those negotiated issues particularly surrounding the material elements of the network. While the study focuses on a specific case, it also offers insights and lessons for the broader energy transition, particularly the process of such transition in passenger road transportation.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_imp - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

50703 - Transport planning and social aspects of transport (transport engineering to be 2.1)

Project

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Continuities

S - Specificky vyzkum na vysokych skolach

Publication year

2021

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Energy Research & Social Science

ISSN

2214-6296

e-ISSN

2214-6326

Volume of the periodical

74

Issue of the periodical within the volume

April

Country of publishing house

NL - THE KINGDOM OF THE NETHERLANDS

Number of pages

9

Pages from-to

1-9

UT code for WoS article

000635382000006

EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-85102271891