@article{LangeBuerkner2021,
  author    = {Lange, Bastian and B{\"u}rkner, Hans-Joachim},
  title     = {Ambiguous avant-gardes and their geographies},
  series = {Die Erde : journal of the Geographical Society of Berlin ; Zeitschrift der Gesellschaft f{\"u}r Erdkunde zu Berlin},
  volume    = {152},
  journal   = {Die Erde : journal of the Geographical Society of Berlin ; Zeitschrift der Gesellschaft f{\"u}r Erdkunde zu Berlin},
  number    = {4},
  publisher = {Gesellschaft f{\"u}r Erdkunde},
  address   = {Berlin},
  issn      = {0013-9998},
  doi       = {10.12854/erde-2021-566},
  pages     = {273 -- 287},
  year      = {2021},
  abstract  = {In the following article, the focus is on the transformative potentials created by so-called persistence avant-gardes and prevention innovators. The text extends Bluhdorn's guiding concept of narratives of hope (Bluhdorn 2017; Bluhdorn and Butzlaff 2019) by considering those groups that are marginalized within debates on socio-ecological transformation. With a closer look at the narratives of prevention and blockade that these actors engage, the ambiguous nature of postgrowth avant-gardes is carved out. Their discursive, argumentative, and effective inhibition of transitory policies is interpreted as a pro-active potential, rather than a mere obstacle to socio-ecological transformation. Adding a geographical perspective, the paper pleads for a more precise theoretical penetration of the ambivalent figure of avantgardes when analyzing processes of local and regional postgrowth.},
  language  = {en}
}