An intersectional approach to energy justice: Individual and collective concerns around wind power on Zapotec land

Mejía-Montero, Adolfo; Jenkins, Kirsten; Horst, Dan van der; Lane, Matthew

doi:10.1016/j.erss.2023.103015

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“…This point is echoed by Torres Contreras (2022Contreras ( , 2023. Indeed, this issue becomes arguably more complex where indigenous people claim rights to land (O'Neill et al, 2021;Mejía-Montero et al, 2023;Ramasar et al, 2022) or where tribal landownership structures co-exist alongside modern land tenure systems (Capps, 2016). This is why Chandrashekeran argues that "the growing body of scholarship on accumulation by energy dispossession needs to be balanced by attention to the opportunities for benefit-sharing by Indigenous landholding interests.…”

Section: Land Landownership and Renewable Energymentioning

confidence: 99%

Making space for community energy: landed property as barrier and enabler of community wind projects

Wade,

Rudolph

2024

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Abstract. Renewable energy infrastructures, such as wind and solar farms, require land on which they can be deployed. While politics and conflicts over accessing land for renewables are well documented, the role, conditions and potential agency of landownership have been often overlooked or oversimplified as a powerful terrain in the field of renewables development. In this paper, we explore the relationship between landed property and community renewable energy projects. In particular, we focus on how landed property variously influences the development modes of renewables by acting as a mediator, barrier and enabler for different types of wind energy projects. We show how this takes place through appropriation of rents in processes of assetisation and value grabbing by landowners. In this way, value grabbing acts as a vital intermediary process to understand green grabbing and wider processes of capital accumulation through renewables. We draw on insights from the Netherlands and Scotland to illuminate different mechanisms, social and historical conditions, and policies through which landed property constrains or enables community wind energy projects. The paper finishes by sketching out some alternative ways of allocating land for the deployment of renewable energy projects, which could help shift the balance of power in favour of community energy developments.

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Section: Land Landownership and Renewable Energymentioning

confidence: 99%

Making space for community energy: landed property as barrier and enabler of community wind projects

Wade,

Rudolph

2024

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“…On the one hand, this raises questions about the distribution of benefits and burdens and about procedural justice in implementation. On the other hand, this also requires a consideration of justice as recognition that goes beyond the anthropocentric focus and takes into account the multiple entanglements of nature, habitats, and people based on different cultural, historical, and religious backgrounds (Lacey- Barnacle et al, 2020;Ruizde-Oña Plaza, 2020;Mejía-Montero et al, 2023).…”

Section: Critical Remarks On Energy Justicementioning

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“…Knowledge of the unequal distribution of climate change benefits and burdens is associated with negative emotions and can also increase mental health risks (Norgaard, 2011;Ford and Norgaard, 2019;Lawrence et al, 2022). Energy and other low-carbon sustainability transitions are associated with a wide range of different emotions, from negative emotions such as fear, anger, grief, sadness, frustration, guilt, deprivation, loss, or shame to positive emotions such as desire, interest, hope, pride, or sym-pathy (Hujits, 2018;Martiskainen and Sovacool, 2021;Biddau et al, 2022;Huijts et al, 2022;Hunsberger and Awâsis, 2019), including empathy and recognition of animals capable of suffering and endowed with emotions (Mejía-Montero et al, 2023). Emotions are not static but can change over an individual's lifetime, as well as across different types of energy technologies and different temporal phases of where that technology is located within the socio-technical regime (Martiskainen and Sovacool, 2021).…”

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Towards an integrative understanding of multiple energy justices

Baasch

2023

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Abstract. Energy justice is a rapidly developing area of research and policy advocacy. Recently, some critiques have been formulated, particularly from postcolonial, political ecology, and more-than-human perspectives, such as the concept's rootedness in Western thought and its too narrow anthropocentric focus. This paper presents an integrative model of various energy justices including perceptions that allow for a more nuanced and expanded understanding, drawing on recent concepts of environmental and energy justice. This analytic perspective integrates understandings of justice as a subjective belief, including increased consideration of the role of emotion in evaluating justice. According to this understanding, there is no “one” energy justice. Instead, there are multiple, sometimes contradictory, and fluid perceptions of justice.

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