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Scripts in transition: protective spaces of Indonesian biofuel villages

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posted on 2023-06-08, 23:15 authored by Yuti Ariani Fatimah, Rob P J M Raven, Saurabh AroraSaurabh Arora
This paper studies the development of biofuel village pilot projects in Indonesia. Despite the central government's political and financial commitment to the projects, the projects failed to survive and produce sustainable effects. In order to understand why the projects were stalled, this paper traces how the design of Indonesia's biofuel policies shaped the actual socio-technical configurations of the projects. To trace this relationship between the policies and the actual project configurations, we develop a framework that combines the concept of protective space from transition studies and the concept of script from actor-network theory. The concept of script allows us to investigate how the designs of protective spaces and of the experimental projects are enacted through non-coherent processes involving misunderstandings and shifts in meanings between narratives and things (e.g. between policies implemented and the machines put in place). Our analysis makes manifest the non-linearity of the relation between the design of a protective space and the actual practices engendered. This non-linearity emerged through changes in direction brought about by the central government's inability to stretch and transform the local environment in accordance with the policy design and through changes in individual actors' interests in the projects.

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Publication status

  • Published

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  • Published version

Journal

Technological Forecasting and Social Change

ISSN

0040-1625

Publisher

Elsevier

Volume

99

Page range

1-13

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  • SPRU - Science Policy Research Unit Publications

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Peer reviewed?

  • Yes

Legacy Posted Date

2015-11-23

First Compliant Deposit (FCD) Date

2015-11-23

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