We present the concept of “transition imaginary”, defined as a discursive effect of the relational work of the state to strategically select and reconfigure landscape pressures through national sociotechnical imaginaries for the sake of legitimizing particular transition projects. Using the case study of the Polish project of an electric vehicle (EV) IZERA, we illustrate a model that helps understand how landscape pressures are reinterpreted in relation to national sociotechnical imaginaries with the active role of state actors in this process. State actors use various forms of representation to publicly express expectations about its benefits and meanings to consolidate the social base for it and propose concrete forms of intervention to bring them into existence. By applying the strategic-relational approach to state power developed by Bob Jessop, we unpack sustainable transitions as state projects of political power and a geographically specific modality of state capitalism.

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转型想象：对波兰国家电动汽车项目的期望


我们提出“转型想象”的概念，定义为国家关系工作的话语效应，通过国家社会技术想象战略性地选择和重新配置景观压力，以使特定的转型项目合法化。通过对波兰电动汽车 (EV) IZERA 项目的案例研究，我们阐述了一个模型，该模型有助于理解如何重新解释景观压力与国家社会技术想象的关系，以及国家行为者在此过程中的积极作用。国家行为者利用各种形式的代表，公开表达对其利益和意义的期望，以巩固其社会基础，并提出具体的干预形式，以使其得以实现。通过应用鲍勃·杰索普（Bob Jessop）提出的国家权力战略关系方法，我们将可持续转型分解为政治权力的国家项目和国家资本主义的地理特定模式。