The Transition Town Network: a review of current evolutions and renaissance

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Smith, A., 2011. The Transition Town Network: a review of current evolutions and renaissance. Social Movement Studies, 10 (1), pp. 99-105. ISSN 1474-2837

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Official URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/14742837.2011.545229

Abstract

The Transition Network started as a movement with Transition Totnes (Devon, UK) in late 2005, with Rob Hopkins as its founder. To date it has grown to encompass 313 official Transition Network initiatives spread across the world from the UK (with roughly 50% of all initiatives) to the USA, Canada, Italy, Japan, Germany, Ireland, New Zealand, Chile, the Netherlands, Brazil and so on (Transition Network, 2010a). For any social movement, this could most certainly be described as something of a success and warrants a closer examination. Indeed, the aim of this profile is to explore the movement's aims and modus operandi, the problematics it has faced and how it is now evolving. The profile draws on my auto-ethnographic encounters with the movement in Transition Nottingham and at the recent Transition Network Conference 2010, whilst also being grounded in the material made publically available on the Transition Network and Transition Culture websites (see Transition Network, 2010b and Transition Culture, 2010a).

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Journal article

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Social Movement Studies

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Smith, A.

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Routledge

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2011

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