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There is a trend towards depoliticization in transition issues (Scrase and Smith 2009; Hess 2014; Kenis and Lievens 2017). Jhagroe (2016) identifies three origins of this trend in relation to different political frameworks.

The first origin is the conception of politics as a fundamentally institutionalized struggle that considers political institutions as the guarantor of any negotiation without taking into account the historical contingency of these institutions. The result is an institutionalized politics of transitions that does not take into consideration the ideological character of the institutions themselves (Jhagroe 2016).

The second stems from a liberal or neo-liberal conception of politics that assumes that political actors are free and equal individuals in a public debate specified in terms of economic (market) negotiation (deliberation). This conception favors market dynamics as well as economic procedures as the terrain of struggle (Jhagroe 2016).

The third stems from an anthropocentric conception of politics that introduces a segmentation between nature and culture and between physical and social systems. The underlying assumption in this conception is that human beings are fundamentally different and often superior to animals, plants and other materials. This “human supremacy” is often unchallenged (Jhagroe 2016).