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Anchoring innovations in oscillating domestic spaces: Why sanitation service offerings fail in informal settlements
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- Cherunya, Pauline C. (author)
- Universiteit Utrecht,Utrecht University,Eawag - Swiss Federal Institute of Aquatic Science and Technology
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- Ahlborg, Helene, 1980 (author)
- Gothenburg University,Göteborgs universitet,Institutionen för globala studier,School of Global Studies
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- Truffer, B. (author)
- Eawag - Swiss Federal Institute of Aquatic Science and Technology,Universiteit Utrecht,Utrecht University
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- Elsevier BV, 2020
- 2020
- English.
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In: Research Policy. - : Elsevier BV. - 0048-7333. ; 49:1
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- A persistent conundrum for practitioners and researchers in the development context is that, often, newly provided and improved basic services are not maintained by users despite seemingly superior functionality and user convenience. We argue that one major reason for this is an insufficient understanding of the context in which users have to manage their daily lives. We therefore propose an approach to analysing the embedding of basic services that focuses on the users’ daily practices. We do so by borrowing insights from ‘socio-technical transitions’ and ‘practice theory’ in developing our concept of oscillating domestic spaces. The concept reflects the need for people to constantly respond to quickly changing and precarious circumstances by rearranging their daily practices in time and space and developing a multiplicity of alternative options and partial solutions. We illustrate the analytical approach in a case study of sanitation access in informal settlements of Nairobi, Kenya. The analysis shows how the introduction of a container-based toilet resulted in partial embedding. The innovation anchored to only a part of the oscillating domestic spaces and was in disarray with the needs of users most of the time. The conceptual approach contributes to the understanding about how users take part in sustainability transitions as well as the added value of the time-space dimension in analysing practices in highly complex contexts. We conclude by reflecting on the potential applicability of the analytical approach to transition cases in the Global North.
Subject headings
- SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP -- Medie- och kommunikationsvetenskap -- Mänsklig interaktion med IKT (hsv//swe)
- SOCIAL SCIENCES -- Media and Communications -- Human Aspects of ICT (hsv//eng)
- NATURVETENSKAP -- Data- och informationsvetenskap -- Människa-datorinteraktion (hsv//swe)
- NATURAL SCIENCES -- Computer and Information Sciences -- Human Computer Interaction (hsv//eng)
- SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP -- Medie- och kommunikationsvetenskap -- Systemvetenskap, informationssystem och informatik med samhällsvetenskaplig inriktning (hsv//swe)
- SOCIAL SCIENCES -- Media and Communications -- Information Systems, Social aspects (hsv//eng)
- SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP -- Statsvetenskap -- Globaliseringsstudier (hsv//swe)
- SOCIAL SCIENCES -- Political Science -- Globalisation Studies (hsv//eng)
Keyword
- Practice theory
- Socio-technical transitions
- Oscillating domestic spaces
- Sanitation
- Global South
- Global South
- Oscillating domestic spaces
- Practice theory
- Sanitation
- Socio-technical transitions
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