This paper advances scholarship on deliberate destabilisation for sustainability transitions. To understand how deliberate destabilisation plays out in practice, the politics of such processes must be confronted. To this end, we bridge research on the political economy of sustainability transitions with recent theorisations of the deliberate destabilisation of unsustainable socio-technical regimes and propose a set of analytical dimensions and guiding questions for the study of the latter. The added value of a political economy perspective to understand the politics of deliberate destabilisation in capitalist economies is demonstrated through the historical example of the phase-out of hen battery cages in the Netherlands. The poultry sector in the Netherlands embodies an industrial approach to food and farming, orientated towards producing large amounts of standardised and cheap food. We foster new insights on the influence of intertwined political and economic interests for deliberate destabilisation processes, which may reproduce, rather than transform, unsustainable and unjust socio-technical regimes.

本文推进了关于可持续性转型故意破坏稳定的学术研究。要了解故意破坏稳定在实践中如何发挥作用，必须直面此类过程的政治因素。为此，我们将可持续性转型的政治经济学研究与近期对不可持续的社会技术体制故意破坏稳定的理论联系起来，并为后者的研究提出了一系列分析维度和指导性问题。荷兰逐步淘汰鸡笼笼的历史例子证明了政治经济学视角对理解资本主义经济中蓄意破坏稳定的政治的附加价值。荷兰的家禽业体现了食品和农业的工业化方法，以生产大量标准化、廉价食品为导向。我们培养关于相互交织的政治和经济利益对故意破坏稳定过程的影响的新见解，这些过程可能会复制而不是改造不可持续和不公正的社会技术制度。