• Elucidating the changing roles of civil society in urban sustainability transitions 

      Frantzeskaki, Niki; Dumitru, Adina; Anguelovski, Isabelle; Avelino, Flor; Bach, Matthew; Best, Benjamin; Binder, Constanze; Barnes, Jake; Carrus, Giuseppe; Egermann, Markus; Axeltine, Alex; Moore, Michele-Lee; García-Mira, Ricardo; Loorbach, Derk; Uzzell, David; Omann, Ines; Olsson, Per; Silvestri, Giorgia; Stedman, Richard; Wittmayer, Julia; Rauschmayer, Felix (Elsevier, 2017-05-18)
      [Abstract] Understanding the diversifying role of civil society in Europe’s sustainability pathway is a valid proposition both scientifically and socially. Civil society organisations already play a significant role in the ...
    • Experimenting with alternative economies : four emergent counter-narratives of urban economic development 

      Longhurst, Noel; Avelino, Flor; Wittmayer, Julia; Weaver, Paul; Dumitru, Adina; Hielscher, Sabine; Cipolla, Carla; Afonso, Rita; Kunze, Iris; Elle, Morten (Elsevier, 2017-05-24)
      [Abstract] Neoliberalism is a powerful narrative that has shaped processes of urban economic development across the globe. This paper reports on four nascent ‘new economic’ narratives which represent fundamentally different ...
    • Transformative social innovation and (dis)empowerment 

      Avelino, Flor; Wittmayer, Julia M.; Weaver, Paul; Dumitru, Adina; Haxeltine, Alex; Kemp, René; Jørgensen, Michael S.; Bauler, Tom; Pel, Bonno (2019)
      [Abstract] This article responds to increasing public and academic discourses on social innovation, which often rest on the assumption that social innovation can drive societal change and empower actors to deal with societal ...