Markusson, Nils; et al. (2017): The political economy of technical fixes. A case from the climate domain
Markusson, Nils; Dahl Gjefsen, Mads; Stephens, Jennie C.; Tyfield, David (2017): The political economy of technical fixes. A case from the climate domain. In Energy Research [&] Social Science 23, pp. 1–10. DOI 10.1016/j.erss.2016.11.004.
„This paper argues that existing critiques of technical fixes are unable to explain our simultaneous enamourment and distrust with technical fixes, and that to do so, we need a political economy analysis. We develop a critical, theoretically grounded conceptualisation of technical fixes as imagined defensive spatio-temporal fixes of specific political economic regimes, and apply it to the case of geoengineering, or ‘clean fossil’, as an attempted technical fix of the climate change problem. We map the promises of clean fossil as proposed solutions to the problem of climate change in discrete episodes since the 1960s.“