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*International Conference of Critical Geography * *18-23 April 2019, Athens, Greece* *https://www.iccg2019.org/ <https://www.iccg2019.org/>* > > *Call for Papers* > > > *What’s New Again? Energy Infrastructures, Resistance and Authoritarian > Populisms* > > > > *Ethemcan Turhan (KTH Royal Institute of Technology)* > > *Magdalena Kuchler (Uppsala University)* > > > There is an urgent need to rethink energy infrastructures –old and new- in > a carbon-constrained world drifting rapidly towards authoritarian > neoliberal and populist varieties of capitalism. These infrastructures fuel > powerful socio-technical imaginaries that underpin visions of modernity, > neo-industrialisation and national developmentalism. A critical focus on > the temporal-spatial advance of specific energy infrastructures together > with wider socio-environmental, cultural, political, and economic effects > are therefore crucial in a moment when critical human geography together > with other strands of critical social sciences and humanities are > witnessing an ‘infrastructural turn’. From mega-renewable infrastructures > to renewed interest in transnational pipelines to fracking to smart grids, > energy infrastructures are again at the intersection of democracy, justice, > equality and sustainability debates. Following this line, we are interested > in exploring how different forms of infrastructural power, interests and > top-down energy initiatives interact or are interwoven with authoritarian > populism vis-à-vis the potentially exclusionary and latent constellations, > representations of ‘the regional’ and ‘the local’. We are equally > interested in exploring how energy democracy > (decentralization/re-nationalization) may provide us with analytical and > normative tools to dismantle current and future fossil fuel ‘strongholds’ > by bringing forth the various loci of contestation and resistance, as well > as trade-offs and opportunities associated with such initiatives from > spatial and temporal perspectives. > > > > We are calling for paper presentations (15 min each + 30 min Q&A) with > transdisciplinary accounts of democratic resistance to contemporary > populist/nationalist fossil fuel energy forces and investment trends along > the extraction, transmission, conversion, consumption and waste steps of > energy infrastructures both from the global North and South – accounts that > would unpack the black-box of the nationhood and technocracy today. In a > nutshell, this session will bring together scholars/activists to think > collectively on networked, multi-scalar and multi-actor resistance to > energy infrastructures under the global wave of authoritarian populism. We > are planning to suggest a *special section for a leading open access > journal* in the field from the presentations in the session. > > > > Interested colleagues are invited to send *abstracts of 250 words *to > Ethemcan Turhan (KTH), [log in to unmask] by *14th October 2018**, the > latest.* > > > > -- > Ethemcan Turhan, Ph.D. > > KTH Royal Institute of Technology > Environmental Humanities Lab > Division of History of Science, Technology and Environment > Teknikringen 74D, SE-100 44 Stockholm, Sweden > > * <http://goog_1689780548>* > *Recent publications:* > ***Towards a political ecology of EU energy policy (2018) > <https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-319-99097-2_11> > ***Energy infrastructure and the fate of the nation: Introduction to > special issue, *Energy Research and Social Science* (2018) > <https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2214629618302251> > ***Examining new geographies of coal: Dissenting energyscapes in Colombia > and Turkey, *Applied Energy *(2018) > <https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0306261918306548> > ***A perspective on radical transformations to sustainability: > resistances, movements and alternatives, *Sustainability Science* (2018) > <https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11625-018-0543-8> > <https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11625-018-0543-8> > > > ######################################################################## To unsubscribe from the CRIT-GEOG-FORUM list, click the following link: https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/webadmin?SUBED1=CRIT-GEOG-FORUM&A=1