{"id":1332,"date":"2023-02-13T10:55:12","date_gmt":"2023-02-13T09:55:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sciencespo.fr\/research\/cities\/2023\/02\/13\/hugo-dassenza-david-from-idea-to-action-instrumenting-the-limits-to-growth-a-study-of-policy-change-and-advocacy-coalitions-interplay-towards-the-city-doughnut-in-amsterdam-urban-governance\/"},"modified":"2023-02-13T10:55:13","modified_gmt":"2023-02-13T09:55:13","slug":"hugo-dassenza-david-from-idea-to-action-instrumenting-the-limits-to-growth-a-study-of-policy-change-and-advocacy-coalitions-interplay-towards-the-city-doughnut-in-amsterdam-urban-governance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sciencespo.fr\/research\/cities\/2023\/02\/13\/hugo-dassenza-david-from-idea-to-action-instrumenting-the-limits-to-growth-a-study-of-policy-change-and-advocacy-coalitions-interplay-towards-the-city-doughnut-in-amsterdam-urban-governance\/","title":{"rendered":"Hugo d’Assenza David, “From Idea to Action. Instrumenting the limits to growth. A study of policy change and advocacy coalitions interplay towards the City Doughnut in Amsterdam urban governance”, 2\u00e8me Prix AIRE de la Recherche \u00c9tudiante sur l’Environnement, 2022"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Nous vous signalons le d\u00e9cernement du 2\u00e8me prix AIRE de la Recherche \u00c9tudiante sur l’Environnement 2022 au m\u00e9moire de recherche d’Hugo d’Assenza David intitul\u00e9 From Idea to Action. Instrumenting the limits to growth. A study of policy change and advocacy coalitions interplay towards the City Doughnut in Amsterdam urban governance.<\/em><\/p>\n\n

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Abstract<\/strong><\/p>\n\n

This research establishes the policy change process behind the City Doughnut, that emerged<\/p>\n\n

in Amsterdam from the development of the municipal circular economy strategy in 2020, and<\/p>\n\n

explicitly questions the essence of the city as a growth machine. Drawing upon an analytical<\/p>\n\n

framework applying the Advocacy Coalition Framework to urban governance, we decentred this topic<\/p>\n\n

from urban studies and environmental science considerations, and proposed a reflection embedded in<\/p>\n\n

the sociology of public action field, leaning on a framework that recently regained attention and is<\/p>\n\n

particularly suitable to analyse policy innovation.<\/p>\n\n

With this research, we assessed the condensation process between the Kate Raworth\u2019s theory<\/p>\n\n

and the implementation of the City Doughnut as a policy instrument. With a qualitative research<\/p>\n\n

method combining secondary data analysis and semi-structured interviews, the study of this unique<\/p>\n\n

case highlights how circular economy became a field of conflict between advocacy coalitions opposed<\/p>\n\n

on the definition of what it means to \u2018grow\u2019 for urban governance. The first dominant \u2018urban growth<\/p>\n\n

coalition\u2019 puts forward capital accumulation as the core matrix, and economic growth as a pre-<\/p>\n\n

requisite for prosperity. The alternative \u2018urban thrive coalition\u2019 opposes to it an ecosystem growth, a<\/p>\n\n

more holistic vision of prosperity: they consequently argue that socio-environmental components<\/p>\n\n

should take precedence over, and even cap, capital accumulation practices. Circular economy is then<\/p>\n\n

a multifaceted and debated development: while it puts forward a technological fix to perpetuate<\/p>\n\n

economic growth, by decoupling it from resource consumption, for the first, circularity is one of the<\/p>\n\n

sine qua non conditions to cap capital accumulation practices and achieve a socio-ecological<\/p>\n\n

transition for the latter.<\/p>\n\n

Findings highlight that the City Doughnut is the product of the strategy of \u2018urban thrive<\/p>\n\n

coalition\u2019 actors. Their collective action not only mobilised pre-existing attention drawn to circular<\/p>\n\n

economy to institute unbounded capital accumulation as a public problem, but also endorsed the<\/p>\n\n

Doughnut theory as a relevant response. Through this, we have seen the importance of experts, and<\/p>\n\n

in particular the theoretical leadership of Kate Raworth, in this policy learning process, but also the<\/p>\n\n

importance of shifting political balance in favour of Greenleft in the municipal coalition. Even if this<\/p>\n\n

marks a secondary change in Amsterdam urban governance, it carries with it the seeds of further<\/p>\n\n

transformations. Both because of its post-capitalistic theoretical charge and the policy perspectives it<\/p>\n\n

opens, this instrument admits itself a performative potential on actors\u2019 activities, and for the conduct<\/p>\n\n

of public policies in urban governance, and beyond.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Nous vous signalons le d\u00e9cernement du 2\u00e8me prix AIRE de la Recherche \u00c9tudiante sur l’Environnement 2022 au m\u00e9moire de recherche d’Hugo d’Assenza David intitul\u00e9 From Idea to Action. Instrumenting the limits to growth. A study of policy change and advocacy coalitions interplay towards the City Doughnut in Amsterdam urban governance. Abstract This research establishes the policy change process behind the City Doughnut, that emerged in Amsterdam from the development of the municipal circular economy strategy in 2020, and explicitly questions the essence of the city as a growth machine. Drawing upon an analytical framework applying the Advocacy Coalition Framework to [\u2026]<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sciencespo.fr\/research\/cities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1332"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sciencespo.fr\/research\/cities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sciencespo.fr\/research\/cities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sciencespo.fr\/research\/cities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sciencespo.fr\/research\/cities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1332"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.sciencespo.fr\/research\/cities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1332\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1333,"href":"https:\/\/www.sciencespo.fr\/research\/cities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1332\/revisions\/1333"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sciencespo.fr\/research\/cities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1332"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sciencespo.fr\/research\/cities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1332"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sciencespo.fr\/research\/cities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1332"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}