{"id":5063,"date":"2026-10-28T01:53:31","date_gmt":"2026-10-27T23:53:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.kehitystutkimus.fi\/conference\/?page_id=5063"},"modified":"2026-10-28T01:53:31","modified_gmt":"2026-10-27T23:53:31","slug":"wg-20-the-political-economy-of-the-green-digital-transition","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.kehitystutkimus.fi\/conference\/working-groups\/wg-20-the-political-economy-of-the-green-digital-transition","title":{"rendered":"WG 20: The Political Economy of the Green\u2013Digital Transition"},"content":{"rendered":"

Coordinator:
\n<\/b>Paul Arteaga (Lappeenranta University of Technology)<\/em><\/p>\n

Description:
\n<\/b>This working group explores the so-called green\u2013digital (or \u201ctwin\u201d) transition from a critical\u00a0 political-economic perspective. Current discussions on the twin transition often oscillate\u00a0 between an optimistic view that highlights the potential of digitalisation to enable and\u00a0 accelerate decarbonisation, and a critical view that typically remains confined to case-specific\u00a0 analyses or to rebound effects (e.g. energy efficiency), leaving broader questions of power,\u00a0 class relations, and geopolitics under-examined.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

We welcome contributions situated anywhere along this spectrum but are particularly interested\u00a0 in <\/span>critical and conflict-oriented perspectives <\/b>on how digitalisation and decarbonisation are\u00a0 reshaping contemporary capitalism. We especially encourage work drawing on critical data\u00a0 studies, critical social theory, political economy, heterodox economics, emphasising questions\u00a0 of class, labour, value, control, and resistance.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

The working group invites theoretical and empirical papers that engage, for example, with:\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n