Whose future is it anyway? Struggles for just energy futures

This Special Issue addresses the challenges, claims, and contradictions in struggles for just energy futures. The eight articles share a critical position towards modernist assumptions and classical top-down approaches in the field of energy justice research. The authors draw on different empirical...

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Published inFutures : the journal of policy, planning and futures studies Vol. 142; p. 103018
Main Authors Krüger, Timmo, Eichenauer, Eva, Gailing, Ludger
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Elsevier Ltd 01.09.2022
Subjects
Degrowth
Energy futures
Energy justice
Just transition
Post-development
Postcolonialism
Energy futures
Post-development
Postcolonialism
Degrowth
Energy justice
Just transition
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ISSN0016-3287
1873-6378
DOI10.1016/j.futures.2022.103018

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Summary:This Special Issue addresses the challenges, claims, and contradictions in struggles for just energy futures. The eight articles share a critical position towards modernist assumptions and classical top-down approaches in the field of energy justice research. The authors draw on different empirical examples to discuss how energy futures are (and must be) the subject of conflict in societies. In analysing these conflicts, they focus on possible implementations of the just-transition concept, on the role of social movements and protest actors, and on the relevance of energy conflicts to the practice and theory of democracy. •The eight articles in this Special Issue share a critique of modernist assumptions.•It is not just about an energy transition, but about a civilisational transformation.•The sources of change lie outside the expert knowledge of a Eurocentric modernity.•Researching justice means questioning the epistemologies behind justice categories.
ISSN:0016-3287
1873-6378
DOI:10.1016/j.futures.2022.103018