Pilot Society and the Energy Transition : The Co-Shaping of Innovation, Participation and Politics.

Intro -- Contents -- Chapter 1: Transforming Society Through Pilot and Demonstration Projects -- Introduction -- Innovation and Politics Through Pilot and Demonstration Projects -- Sustainability Transitions: A Socio-technical Backdrop -- From Multi-level Perspectives to Symmetrical Understandings of the Social and Technical Processes of Sustainability Transitions -- The Empirical Field: A Brief Look on Trends and Developments -- References -- Chapter 2: The Co-production of Pilot Projects and Society -- Introduction: Why Study Pilot Projects? -- Exploring the Shaping of Pilot Projects -- Technology-Oriented Trials: From Laboratories to Regional Specificities -- A Smart Grid Laboratory for the Purely Technical? -- Technology Trials Outside the Laboratory -- The High-tech Neighbourhoods of the Smart Grid -- The Smart Grid Shaped by Healthcare Actors -- Geographically Bound Pilots -- The Island as an Example -- The National Pilot-Project -- The Norwegian Case of Electromobility -- The Significance of How Demonstration Projects Are Shaped -- Beyond Pilots: Understanding Pilot Projects in Broader Energy and Sustainability Transitions -- Upscaling and Accelerating Energy Transitions Through Pilot Projects? -- How Pilots Scale Up: An Example -- Implications for the Literature on Upscaling: From Patterns and Mechanisms to Strategies -- Concluding Discussion: Towards an Appreciation of the Political Character of Pilots and Demonstration Projects -- References -- Chapter 3: Democratic and Participatory Pilot Projects? -- The Orchestration of Participation in Pilot and Demonstration Projects -- Collectives of Policy Production and Regulation -- Collectives of Research, Development and Innovation -- Collectives of Design -- Technology Users as Orchestrators of Participation.

Implications of Perspectives from Studies of Ecologies of Participation, Contestation and Orchestration -- An Object-oriented Perspective: Material Participation -- Energy Citizenship as Means of Material Participation -- The Co-production of Energy Citizenship in Collectives with Electric Vehicles -- Pilot Projects and the Production of Collective Energy Citizenship -- The Material Political Dynamics of Shared of EV-charging -- The Role of National Legislation in the Orchestrating New Material Political Dynamics -- Promoting Smart Charging Through Highlighting Values such as Fairness and Equality -- Citizens and Elected Housing Boards Co-producing Material Participation -- Conclusion: Orchestration, Participation and New Collective Material Politics -- References -- Chapter 4: Catering for Socio-technical Transformations: Rethinking Technology Policy for Inclusive Transformation -- Transforming the Innovation Practices of Pilot Projects -- The Challenge of the Social: Socio-technical Asymmetries in Pilot and Demonstration Projects -- The Orchestration of Research and Innovation Through Funding -- Re-thinking Transformative Innovation in Inclusive, Material and Human Terms -- Conclusion: Democratic Innovation for Inclusive Transformation -- References -- Correction to: Pilot Society and the Energy Transition -- References -- Index.

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