A critical review of energy democracy: A failure to deliver justice?

Mapping Restorative Justice in Information and Electronic Transaction Criminal Regulation

“…Participation from the community will make it easier for them to understand the fundamental concepts contained in the restorative justice method. 41 Thirdly, law enforcement officers continue to be accustomed to retributive justice. Each law enforcement officer, such as investigators, prosecutors, and judges, has frequently divergent opinions, which is one of the obstacles to implementing restorative justice in ITE crimes.…”

Identifying, improving, and investing in national commitments to just transition: Reflections from Latin America and the Caribbean

“…We build on emerging just transition work in the LAC region (Jakob et al, 2019;Saget et al, 2020). Given the historical injustices that have rendered indigenous peoples (Saget et al, 2020;Droubi et al, 2022a) -who account for approximately 7% of the population of the LAC regioninvisible in the decision-making respecting energy projects by which they are negatively affected, we bring insight from global measures of adherence to the rule of law in protecting the rights of indigenous and other vulnerable communities (Droubi and Heffron, 2020;Heffron, 2020a;Droubi et al, 2022b), to inform our analysis into these three dimensions. To get a sense of just transition in LAC, we cover the key debates that emerge from literature on justice and energy transition in the LAC region to then generate research questions.…”

“…Studies on just transition (Saget et al, 2020) and, more generally, energy justice (Droubi et al, 2022b) have been increasing. Many of these include wider dimensions of justice that explore beyond the borders of nations, such as recognition and cosmopolitan justice (McCauley et al, 2016(McCauley et al, , 2019Allen et al, 2019), but insufficient work is conducted on operationalizing existing dimensions of justice.…”

Suspending democratic (dis)belief: Nonliberal energy polities of solar power in Morocco and Tanzania

“…The concept galvanizes notions of individual agency and collective, public good through decentralized, locally owned and consumed energy-often through the language of prosumership [1]-as a salve for contemporary ills caused by the extractive social and material relationships of fossil fuels. This article follows recent initiatives in this journal to critique ED, including critiques vis-à-vis energy justice frameworks [8] and omissions in case studies from the so-called 'Global South' and of centralized systems [9]. We build on those critiques by deploying the concept of "energy polity" recently introduced by Winthereik and others [10] to interrogate the liberal democratic assumptions of energy democracy, which implicitly and sometimes explicitly exclude and vilify those in postcolonial political peripheries.…”

“…Energy democracy is a normative concept with origins in largely Western activist and (increasingly) entrepreneurial spaces that both theorize and valorize liberal democratic norms of how sociopolitical relationships of energy ought to be configured [1,8,9,12,13], and evaluate energy projects and initiatives at different scales according to these norms [12,14]. In the international energy development arena, social scientists and activists have tended to export the norms of energy democracy to so-called nonliberal spaces of so-called 'bad behavior,' with 'Africa' thought to concentrate bad behavior.…”