RiDe - Rise and Demise of Industrial Modernity

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Industrial modernity, encompassing shared institutions and practices related to technoscience and the environment, has driven major advancements in contemporary societies. However, in today’s context of socio-ecological polycrisis, many of its traits have become maladaptive, often resulting in solutions to challenges like climate change that inadvertently exacerbate the problems. The ERC-funded RiDe project will apply a novel deep transitions framework to transform our understanding of industrial societies, exploring their acceleration, crises, and transformative potential since the 1900s. Drawing on this analysis, the project will develop an innovative theory that provides an empirically grounded, comprehensive, and historically informed understanding of industrial modernisation for sustainability science.

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    Towards a theory of industrial modernity
    (ScienceDirect, 2026) Kanger, Laur; Velmet, Aro; Maurer, Liina; Liiv, Anna Helena; Johnstone, Phil
    The deepening socio-environmental polycrisis has stimulated calls to rethink industrial modernity: the currently dominant societal assumptions about the natural environment, science and technology. However, the genesis and long-term co-evolution of these deep macro-level assumptions has rarely gained systematic attention in innovation studies. This is an important oversight given that the historical legacy of industrial modernity continues to shape the policy framing of current sustainability challenges as well as the design of appropriate interventions. In this paper we seek to develop a conceptual vocabulary for theorizing the historical evolution of industrial modernity. Combining the Deep Transitions framework from sustainability transitions studies with insights on long-term industrialization-related trends from various fields, we 1) present a systematically validated inventory of 38 constituent ideas, institutions and practices of industrial modernity; 2) map their emergence over the past 250 years; 3) identify 10 recurrent controversial outcomes generated by the interactions of these traits; 4) distinguish between three phases in the long-term evolution of industrial modernity. We conclude with a research agenda for studying the historical evolution, current impacts and policy implications of industrial modernity