Come join us at the EASA this summer for our panel on POWER – in both politics and energy – and what this entails for our future!


See the full panel description and submission link below. The call for papers closes on Monday, 20th of January. Hope to see you in Lisbon!


Best wishes,

Charlotte Bruckermann, Katja Müller, and Kirsten Endres


https://nomadit.co.uk/conference/easa2020/p/8480

P062: The political power of energy futures within and beyond Europe<https://nomadit.co.uk/conference/easa2020/p/8480>
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The panel examines how the persistence of conventional energy systems and the rise of renewables affects the complex operations of political power and influences the pace and results of anticipated energy futures.


The political power of energy futures within and beyond Europe.



Panel P062 at conference EASA2020: New anthropological horizons in and beyond Europe.

Short abstract:

The panel examines how the persistence of conventional energy systems and the rise of renewables affects the complex operations of political power and influences the pace and results of anticipated energy futures.

Long abstract:

Debates about climate change have long entered political arenas through diplomacy, bureaucracy and regulations as part of worldwide environmental governance. Although global efforts to foster greener energy increasingly supplement resource extractivism, unfolding protests point to the insufficiencies of current measures. This panel asks what political legitimacies and forms of power become possible through renewables' development and the greening of energy systems. From top-down policymaking regarding energy access to grassroots calls for climate justice, this panel interrogates the policies and politics surrounding renewable energy, and the unintended consequences and alliances in its delivery. Ethnographic investigations in this panel will combine the intertwined complexities of greening energy with abstractions of political power at various scales. Questions could include: How does political decision-making on energy sources unfold, including expanding resource extraction, extending the grid, or developing renewables? What brute materialities of wires, cables, and power plants come into play? How do historic injustices and exclusionary legacies of extraction, production and consumption affect future energy horizons? Do imperatives of greening energy create new role models in energy matters that shift the focus within and beyond Europe? When do debates about local environmental priorities and energy rights undermine or bolster global climate targets? What new forms of precarity and scarcity do large-scale infrastructural impositions by local or international powerholders entail? We welcome contributions that investigate the contradictions and contestations between the persistence of conventional energy systems and the rise of renewables within the complex operations of political power that affect our anticipated energy futures.



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Charlotte Bruckermann
Research Fellow
Department of Social Anthropology
University of Bergen

Now out: Claiming Homes: confronting domicide in rural China.
https://berghahnbooks.com/title/BruckermannClaiming

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