In addition to the 'arm's length' acts of voting, social mobilisation, protest and dissent can be critical catalysts for transformative change . These are competitions for recognition, power and authority  that take place in settings. This is evidenced by experiences from the energy sector in Bangladesh which became a contested national policy domain and where social movements eventually transformed the nation's energy politics . Similarly, in Germany, the nation's energy transition led to marked changes in agency and legal frameworks, and energy markets drove the proliferation of so-called municipalisations of energy systems-a reversal of years of system privatisation . Meanwhile, experience in Bolivia demonstrate that the transformative potential of political conflict depends on transcending narrow issues to form broad coalitions with a collective identity that challenge prevailing development objectives and trajectories . Such examples illustrate the power of the communities as a vanguard against environmentally destructive practices . Social movements have been successful at countering fossil fuel extraction  and open up political opportunities in the face of increasing efforts to capture natural resources  and are bolstered by resistance from within some corporations and/or their shareholders .
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