On Friday 28 February 2025, T. de Geus will defend the doctoral thesis titled: Capturing Change: Understanding and leveraging capture dialectics in energy for transition management tactics.
- Promotor
- Co-promotor
- Date
- Friday 28 Feb 2025, 10:30 - 12:00
- Type
- PhD defence
- Space
- Senate Hall
- Building
- Erasmus Building
- Location
- Campus Woudestein
Below is a brief summary of the dissertation:
With chaos rampant in energy systems across Europe, dominant governance approaches are failing to deliver the transformations that are so urgently needed. Over the past decades, transition management has emerged as an alternative way to organise governance, embracing complexity, uncertainty, and collaboration with social innovation.
This dissertation explores the phenomenon of ‘capture’ dialectics, which occur when social innovations move back and forth between radicality and co-optation by established actors. Through transdisciplinary research in seven European cities and across social innovation in energy in Europe, this work highlights four dynamics of capture: instrumentalisation, delegitimisation, (dis)empowerment, and strategic capture. Offering innovative tactics such as developing transition legitimacy and creating a Transformative Power Lab, it proposes new ways forward for navigating just energy transitions.
- More information
The public defence will begin exactly at 10.30 hrs. The doors will be closed once the public defence starts, latecomers may be able to watch on the screen outside. There is no possibility of entrance during the first part of the ceremony. Due to the solemn nature of the ceremony, we recommend that you do not take children under the age of 6 to the first part of the ceremony.
A live stream link has been provided to the candidate.
