Anneleen Kenis and Erik Mathijs

As a reaction against global problems such as climate change and peak oil, localisation movements gathered renewed momentum during the last decade. Prominent amongst these is Transition Towns, a movement which advocates the development of resilient local communities to deal with these challenges in an adequate way. On the basis of extensive qualitative research of the movement’s rise in Flanders (Belgium), this article studies the way Transition Towns represents the local

via (De)politicising the local: The case of the Transition Towns movement in Flanders (Belgium).