可持续性转型治理的重建和解构

Rebuilding and Deconstructionism on the Sustainability of Transition Governance

本文以转型管理为重点,回顾了对可持续性转型的一些批判和质疑。虽然这些质疑促进了理论进展,但潜在的认识论问题依然存在。本文阐述了对转型管理及其隐含复杂性范式的一些批判是如何建立在对复杂性的解构主义认识上,这对复杂系统在何种程度上可以被影响朝所期望的方向发展提出了质疑。对转型管理的批判需要认识如下几点:①转型管理需要解构力(迄今未充分说明);②同时具有“超越”解构主义的明确追求。为此,本文提出了一种“重构方法”作为转型研究的认识论基础,这种重建方法分为3个方面:①超越“是”和“应该是”,倾向于“可以是”;②诠释性和自反性研究;以及③可持续性的“实践智慧”。

Focusing on the transition management,some criticisms and questions about the sustainable transition are reviewed.While some of the earlier criticism have inspired theory development,the underlying epistemological issues deserve more attention.It demonstrates how some of the criticisms on transition management and its underlying complexity paradigm are based on a deconstructive understanding of complexity,which questions to what extent complex systems can be influenced into a desired direction.The criticism of transition management needs to know the following points:①Transition management itself presupposes inherent deconstructive power,which hitherto has been insufficiently specified.②Transition management also has an explicit ambition to‘go beyond’deconstruction.It elaborates a reconstructive approach as an epistemological grounding for transition studies on three grounds:Firstly,a research focus beyond‘is’versus‘ought’towards‘can be’.Secondly,interpretative research and reflexivity.Finally,a phronesis understanding of sustainability.