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Sustainability transitions in projectified landscapes are driven not merely by the execution of individual project plans, but by the ongoing spatial and relational labor actors perform to pool resources and navigate fragmentation across multiple projects. Novelty: ClaimNovelty.INCREMENTAL. Consensus alignment: ConsensusAlignment.NEUTRAL.

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Examine the spatial work and deeper institutional implications of using time-limited project structures to enact regional sustainability transitions.

September 8, 2026GeoforumOpen Access

Assembling wild berry transitions: The spatial work of projectified sustainability transitions in Västerbotten, Sweden

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NPNils Pettersson LALinn Axelsson

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Qualitative study reveals that sustainability transitions depend on spatial labor across wild berry initiatives, highlighting how actors navigate fragmented funding landscapes.

Key Points

Examine the spatial work and deeper institutional implications of using time-limited project structures to enact regional sustainability transitions.
Applied an assemblage-topological theoretical framework to analyze regional wild berry sustainability projects in northern Europe.
Conducted qualitative analysis of project documentation alongside interviews with project leaders, case leaders, and relevant regional transition actors in Västerbotten, Sweden.
Transition projects operate as dynamic, contested assemblages sustained by continual spatial labor that draws heterogeneous actors into relational proximity.
Regional sustainability transitions progress through informal resource pooling and relational work spanning across multiple disconnected initiatives rather than via formal project execution alone.

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Pettersson et al. (2026) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/6a9fd76758e84d0ff5b45ffb https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geoforum.2026.104809

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September 8, 2026GeoforumOpen Access

Assembling wild berry transitions: The spatial work of projectified sustainability transitions in Västerbotten, Sweden

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Authors

NPNils Pettersson LALinn Axelsson

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Overview

Qualitative study reveals that sustainability transitions depend on spatial labor across wild berry initiatives, highlighting how actors navigate fragmented funding landscapes.

Key Points

Examine the spatial work and deeper institutional implications of using time-limited project structures to enact regional sustainability transitions.
Applied an assemblage-topological theoretical framework to analyze regional wild berry sustainability projects in northern Europe.
Conducted qualitative analysis of project documentation alongside interviews with project leaders, case leaders, and relevant regional transition actors in Västerbotten, Sweden.
Transition projects operate as dynamic, contested assemblages sustained by continual spatial labor that draws heterogeneous actors into relational proximity.
Regional sustainability transitions progress through informal resource pooling and relational work spanning across multiple disconnected initiatives rather than via formal project execution alone.

Cite This Study

Pettersson et al. (2026) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/6a9fd76758e84d0ff5b45ffb https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geoforum.2026.104809

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