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One transition, many transitions? A corpus-based study of societal sustainability transition discourses in four civil society’s proposals
When the civil society makes ‘transition’ its label, it cannot be assumed that different civil society actors share compatible varieties of localist or radical transformationists discourses. This study has comparatively analyzed the discourses in four civil society sustainability transition proposals using a corpus-based methodology. We found that the proposals are similar as they identify the economy as an object and an entry point for transition, frame the economy as embedded in the socio–ecological system, ascribe agency to grassroots movements for transitions from the bottom–up. We also found crucial differences among the discourses regarding the role of the State, the degree of reform or radical innovation, the degree of imaginative character of the sustainability vision, the degree of opposition to capitalism. We suggest that insights on how the civil society employs notions of transition with respect to the themes of politics, emotions and place can help advance theorizations and practices of societal sustainability transitions led by the civil society
Compositions and methods for analyte detection
Provided are a variety of chemically sensitive, stable (insoluble over a specified period of time), nontoxic, and non-antigenic hydrogel particles which undergo a measurable change in at least one electrochemical or optical property as a function of interaction with one or more substance(s) to be detected. Also provided are methods of using these hydrogel particles to detect one or more selected analytes, and in certain aspects detect one or more analytes in vivo. Further provided are devices used to detect and measure the optical or electrochemical changes.U