Session SS09 will explore the possibilities and limits of experimental governance and policy innovation to facilitate regional transitions towards more inclusive and sustainable futures.
Specifically, they invite abstracts that explore:
- The politics and spatiality of experimentation within regional and innovation policy: clusters, smart specialization strategies, innovation districts, etc.
- How experimentation may be discursively and/or relationally rescaling climate change governance so that the ‘regional scale’ becomes a critical policy space.
- The relation between policy mobilities and experimentation in regional policymaking, including ‘what moves’ and ‘doesn’t move’, through what actors, networks, circuits, etc.
- Different practices or techniques that can help imagine and implement alternative futures, particularly beyond North-originated development visions and policy models.
- The relationship between policy experiments and specific institutional challenges and transformations (e.g. differences in role of the state; geopolitics of the environment, etc.)
- Experimentalism, city networks and platform governance related to questions about who orchestrates experimentation and to what purpose (government, philanthropy, corporate, etc.).
- Experimentalism and the limits of solutionism, including reflections around the possibilities and limits of nature-based solutions.
- Methodological strategies and tactics to analyze the role of experiments, co-production, laboratories or other ways in which policy innovation is taking place in different regions across the North and South.
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