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Sustainability transitions (ST) is an evolving, vibrant research field–approximately 1,100 papers on the subject have been published in 2019 and 2020 in journals indexed in the Scopus database, with a fast and steady growth in the last decade (Kohler et al., 2019). The theories and empirical evidence of sociotechnical transitions are widely debated by academics, policy makers and practitioners to understand and promote systemic transformations in society. Transitions are meant to allow more sustainable ways of production and consumption in different sociotechnical systems such as energy, mobility and food, promoting climate change mitigation (IPCC, 2018) and just transitions (Swilling & Annecke, 2012). Although ST has become an impressively wide research field, with abundant empirical evidence, its main focus remains in studying European societies. Even when other parts of the globe are visited …