Energy Democracies for Sustainable Futures

Majia Nadesan, Martin J. Pasqualetti, Jennifer Keahey

• Publisher: Academic Press
• Year: 2022
• Print ISBN: 9780128227961
• eBook ISBN: 9780128227978
• Topic: Politics & International Relations
• Subtopic: Energy Industry
• Index: Politics & International Relations

Energy Democracies for Sustainable Futures explores how our dominant carbon and nuclear energy assemblages shape conceptions of participation, risk, and in/securities, and how they might be reengineered to deliver justice and democratic participation in transitioning energy systems. Chapters assess the economies, geographies and politics of current and future energy landscapes, exposing how dominant assemblages (composed of technologies, strategies, knowledge and authorities) change our understanding of security and risk, and how they these shared understandings are often enacted uncritically in policy. Contributors address integral relationships across the production and government of material and human energies and the opportunities for sustainable and democratic governance. In addition, the book explores how interest groups advance idealized energy futures and energy imaginaries. The work delves into the role that states, market organizations and civil society play in envisioned energy change. It assesses how risks and security are formulated in relation to economics, politics, ecology, and human health. It concludes by integrating the relationships between alternative energies and governance strategies, including issues of centralization and decentralization, suggesting approaches to engineer democracy into decision-making about energy assemblages. - Explores descriptive and normative relationships between energy and democracy - Reviews how changing energy demand and governance threaten democracies and democratic institutions - Identifies what participative energy transformations look like when paired with energy security - Reviews what happens to social, economic and political infrastructures in the process of achieving sustainable and democratic transitions

Table of contents

• Cover
• Front Matter
• Table of Contents
• Copyright
• List of figures
• List of tables
• Contributors
• Editors biographies
• Contributors biography
• Foreword
• Acknowledgment
• Introduction to collection
• List of Illustrations
• List of Tables
• Introduction to Part I: Energy imaginaries
• Chapter 1 : Serving in the public interest: Samuel Insull and the public service utility imaginary
• Chapter 2 : Governance and sustainability in distributed energy systems
• Chapter 3 : Energy democracy’s relationship to ecology
• Chapter 4 : Utopias and dystopias of renewable energy imaginaries
• Chapter 5 : Technoregions of insurrection: Decentralizing energy infrastructures and manifesting change at scale
• Chapter 6 : Assemblages of energy and equity: Rearticulating Illich
• Chapter 7 : Re-imagining energy-society relations: An interactive framework for social movement-based energy-society transformation
• Chapter 8 : Democratic governance of fossil fuel decline
• Chapter 9 : Decentralizing energy systems: Political power and shifting power relations in energy ownership
• Chapter 10 : Democratic divergence and the landscape of community solar in the United States
• Chapter 11 : The emerging energy future(s) of renewable power and electrochemistry:: Advancing or undermining energy democracy?
• Chapter 12 : The future of energy ownership
• Introduction to Part II: Energy Futures
• Chapter 13 : Energies of resistance? Conceptualizing resistance in and through energy democratization
• Chapter 14 : The role of ownership and governance in democratizing energy: Comparing public, private, and civil society initiatives in England
• Chapter 15 : Lessons from electric cooperatives: Evolving participatory governance practices
• Chapter 16 : Bringing democratic transparency to Karachi’s electric sector
• Chapter 17 : Energy literacy: Democratizing energy access initiatives in Papua New Guinea
• Chapter 18 : A just development energy transition in India?
• Chapter 19 : Community adaptation to microgrid alternative energy sources: The case of Puerto Rico
• Chapter 20 : Energy democracy movements in Japan
• Chapter 21 : Participatory cartography as a means to facilitate democratic governance of offshore wind power in Brazil☆
• Chapter 22 : Energy democracy cooperatives: Opportunities and challenges
• Introduction to Part III: Energy risks
• Chapter 23 : Situating energy justice: Storytelling risk and resilience in the Navajo Nation
• Chapter 24 : Will electro-mobility encourage injustices? The case of lithium production in the Argentine Puna
• Chapter 25 : The limits of authoritarian energy governance: Energy, democracy and public contestation in Turkey
• Chapter 26 : Hazard or survival: Politics of nuclear energy in Ukraine and Belorussia through the lens of energy democracy
• Chapter 27 : Talking points: Narrative strategies to promote nuclear power in Turkey
• Chapter 28 : Fossilizing renewable energy: The case of wind power in the Isthmus of Tehuantepec, Mexico
• Chapter 29 : “Psychic numbing” and the environment: Is this leading to unsustainable energy outcomes in Australia?
• Chapter 30 : Deluxe energy: Newly commodified regimes of luxurious energy
• Chapter 31 : Does security push democracy out of energy governance?
• Chapter 32 : Global energy transition risks: Evaluating the intergenerational equity of energy transition costs
• Chapter 33 : Democratizing energy through smart grids? Discourses of empowerment vs practices of marginalization
• Chapter 34 : Contested scales of democratic decision-making and procedural justice in energy transitions
• Chapter 35 : Mind the gap: Citizens, consumers, and unequal participation in global energy transitions
• Chapter 36 : Worse than its reputation? Shortcomings of “energy democracy”
• Conclusion: A call to action, toward an energy research insurrection
• Index
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