ABSTRACT

Recent years have seen a surge of interest in prefigurative politics, which refers to the political strategies that model a future society on a micro level and aim to instantiate radical social change in and through practice. While most previous studies have focused on defining the concept and categorizing various types of prefiguration, this paper contributes by investigating under what circumstances prefiguration leads to revolutionary social change. The paper takes an original approach to these issues by turning to transition studies and the socio-technical change literature. This field focuses on the technical equivalence of prefiguration: namely, the relationship between small-scale niche innovations and large-scale technological transitions. Through theoretical discussions and empirical illustrations, this paper presents a typology of five transition pathways through which prefigurative strategies may result in a range of social change outcomes from reformative to revolutionary transformation.

摘要

近年来，人们对比喻性政治的兴趣激增，指的是在微观层面上为未来社会建模的政治策略，旨在通过实践来实例化激进的社会变革。尽管以前的大多数研究都集中在定义概念和对各种类型的预配置进行分类，但本文还是通过研究预配置在何种情况下导致了革命性的社会变革而做出了贡献。本文通过转向过渡研究和社会技术变革文献，对这些问题采取了原始的方法。该领域专注于预配置的技术对等：即小规模利基创新与大规模技术转型之间的关系。通过理论讨论和经验说明，