In this paper, we focus on and compare policies for phasing-out coal and lignite energy production and light bulbs as part of regime-level climate change mitigation measures. Our approach broadens the transition focus on discontinuation policies by adding a relational STS perspective. Our goal is to understand how the relationships that constitute sociotechnical regimes are deliberately brought to an end. In order to understand this “dissociation”, we explore how policymakers instigate phase-out by engaging technology users and producers to loosen their entanglements in existing socio-material networks and eventually end their established sociotechnical relations. In two case studies we show how dissociation was achieved through 1) translating the German coal and lignite phase-out into a regional development challenge and 2) translating a well-established business with highly standardised and cosy incandescent lighting into a fast-changing lead market for energy-efficient LED technology.

在本文中，我们重点关注并比较了逐步淘汰煤炭和褐煤能源生产以及灯泡的政策，作为政权层面气候变化缓解措施的一部分。我们的方法通过添加关系 STS 视角扩大了对停产政策的过渡关注。我们的目标是了解构成社会技术制度的关系是如何被故意结束的。为了理解这种“分离”，我们探索了政策制定者如何通过让技术用户和生产者参与来放松他们在现有社会物质网络中的纠缠并最终结束他们既定的社会技术关系来鼓励逐步淘汰。