Presentation at the STEPS Conference 2010 - Pathways to Sustainability: Agendas for a new politics of environment, development and social justice
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Alexia Coke: Transition Tales: Framing in the Transition Town movement
1. Transition Tales: Framing in the Transition Town movement Alexia Coke RESOLVE (ESRC-funded) Centre for Environmental Strategy University of Surrey STEPS Conference, 23-24 September 2010
11. Transition as âPattern Languageâ: An Emergent Framing From: 2010 Transition Network Conference Guide
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Part of broader CC/PO movement (North 2009) Inspired by systems thinking etc â permaculture/socio-ecological & individual behaviour change approaches Holds a conference, creating visions and storytelling feature in sessions; sponsor books under Transition Books on themes of interest, such as Local Food Food, Local Money, and one currently being put together called Transition Tales, based on someone walking around the country to different Transition Initiatives to record their âstoriesâ, inspired the title of the talk. Villages -> cities -> islands; Brazil and Transition Africa website.
Key to the twin issues of Peak Oil & Climate Change Problem some of the current cultural stories Pictures from European fairytales â like the 7 League Boots, or the Porridge Use of the language of âaddictionâ.
â Taking these cultural stories a little further, letâs look at the stories we tell ourselves about the future.â Use of the Peak Oil curve/projection
Turning peak oil on its head⊠Chamberlain 2009: 69 in his book on the Transition Timeline draws on scenario-planning to crate such visions for energy, food transport etc: e.g. â⊠by 2023, the majority of energy assets were at least part-owned by the local community, often through co-operative renewable energy societies based on the Totnes model. In 2025 the government also introduced a requirement for any new large-scale generation to be partly community-owned. Local insulation clubs and Tradable Energy Quota âpooling groups are also commonâŠâ The âPower of Communityâ + reconnecting with nature Joanna Macey â the work that reconnects e.g. developing positive future news stories Better â more connected, less stressed/addicted â âthe alternative hedonismâ
In the Handbook distinguishes the movement from preceding environmental movement Social justice agenda implicit, and seemingly pretty marginal
Rationale for linking PO + CC together: â In terms of devising mitigation actions, itâs important to look at Peak Oil and Climate Change together. If you look at them in isolation, you get one dimensional solutions.â
12 steps â addiction self-help groups inspired? Power of Community, End of Surburbia, Transition Film (promotional film) 3. i.e. coordinate with other groups 10. Oral history interviews Similar, but reinvented locallyâŠ
Pathway used in energy descent planning too⊠based on a vision The kinds of projects engaged in Solar Water Heater Challenge. The Totnes Renewable Energy Supply Company (TRESCO) Lending Library Earth wisdom council Greenhouse Britain Arts project Nut tree planting Car Share Club TTT International Youth Music Festival â Transition in Actionâ
Policies for Transition (the role of politics) â a pattern Within the âchallengeâ portion, says that âwithout appropriate far-reaching policy-making, Transition with struggleâ. In âthe Solutionâ says: âTransition works to change the cultural story, for example, to what I means to live within natural limits, enabling a different space for policy decisions. It aims to make unelectable policies electable, and seeks to engage with the political process in ways that takes no party affiliation, holding hustings focusing on resilience, to lead by example rather than hectoring.â (p 101)
Bringing in new people Brazil + website for Africa now. Allying with local government, but often with some ambivalenceâ non-oppositional Implicit assumptions that âsocial justiceâ will just occur; harking towards idea of needing to ârebuildâ community. Part of/links to many other movements (i.e. discourse coalitions