Dilemmas of Energy Transitions in the Global South
Balancing Urgency and Justice
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- English
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Dilemmas of Energy Transitions in the Global South
Balancing Urgency and Justice
About this book
This book explores how, in the wake of the Anthropocene, the growing call for urgent decarbonisation and accelerated energy transitions might have unintended consequences for energy poverty, justice and democracy, especially in the global South.
Dilemmas of Energy Transitions in the Global South brings together theoretical and empirical contributions focused on rethinking energy transitions conceptually from and for the global South, and highlights issues of justice and inclusivity. It argues that while urgency is critical for energy transitions in a climate-changed world, we must be wary of conflating goals and processes, and enquire what urgency means for due process. Drawing from a range of authors with expertise spanning environmental justice, design theory, ethics of technology, conflict and gender, it examines case studies from countries including Bolivia, Sri Lanka, India, The Gambiaand Lebanon in order to expand our understanding of what energy transitions are, and how just energy transitions can be done in different parts of the world. Overall, driven by a postcolonial and decolonial sensibility, this book brings to the fore new concepts and ideas to help balance the demands of justice and urgency, to flag relevant but often overlooked issues, and to provide new pathways forward.
This volume will be of great interest to students and scholars of energy transitions, environmental justice, climate change and developing countries.
The Open Access version of this book, available at https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/oa-edit/10.4324/9781003052821has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 license.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Half-Title
- Endorsements
- Series
- Title
- Copyright
- Contents
- List of figures
- Editors
- List of contributors
- Preface
- 1 Urgency vs justice: A politics of energy transitions in the age of the Anthropocene
- 2 Insights from an assemblage perspective for a (better) understanding of energy transitions: Facing the challenge of sustainability in Lebanon’s energy crisis
- 3 Constructing an inclusive vision of sustainable transition to decentralised energy: Local practices, knowledge, values and narratives in the case of community-managed grids in rural India
- 4 Bolivia’s energy transition in harmony with nature: Reality or delusion?
- 5 Scalar biases in solar photovoltaic uptake: Socio-materiality, regulatory inertia and politics
- 6 Energy transitions in a post-war setting: Questions of equity, justice and democracy in Sri Lanka
- 7 Energising change: Clean cooking and the changing social position of women
- 8 “Women don’t ride bicycle[s], only men ride bicycles”: Gender and justice in mobility transitions
- 9 Energy transitions in the global South: Towards just urgency and urgent justice
- Index