Abstract
ABSTRACT Just climate transitions require transformations reweaving the fabric of modern societies and necessitate co-production of knowledge and action informed by ontological and epistemic pluralism. I analyse knowledge politics of just transitions as ontological politics, observing how a Swedish research programme tries to bridge the ontologies of ‘green modernity’ and ‘resistance’ through that of ‘planetary boundaries’. I show how these ontologies generate distinctive ideas of transition/transformation and justice, governance theories and praxes, and understandings of knowledge-action links. The theoretical framework of political ontology reflects the imperative to deepen the discussions on the green transitions to include questions ‘beyond technical fixes’: well-being, reconnection between land and those who live on it, and a recognition of the Swedish colonial legacy. I argue that to go beyond tokenistic co-production, researchers must be ready and able to successfully navigate ontological politics in which knowledge production in just transitions is inevitably entangled.
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