Energy and Global Production Networks

Mulvaney, Dustin

doi:10.1057/978-1-137-55631-8_25

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“…Certainly the stimulus and subsequent Obama Administration programs contained stabs at resurrecting U.S. industrial policy. (This proved an uphill battle for a cascade of tech sector, domestic political, and global economic reasons too extensive to treat here, but see Block and Keller 2011;Caprotti 2015Caprotti , 2017Mazzucato 2015;Mulvaney 2016;Knuth 2017Knuth , 2018aGoldstein 2018 for various elements.) Quickly, however, it became clear that the construction sector was to provide the bulk of immediate green collar jobs in programs such as the crisis-era stimulus package.…”

Section: The Movement For Green Collar Jobs --Building A/s Solution?mentioning

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Whatever Happened to Green Collar Jobs? Populism and Clean Energy Transition

Knuth¹

2020

Environmental Governance in a Populist/Authoritarian Era

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Section: The Movement For Green Collar Jobs --Building A/s Solution?mentioning

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Whatever Happened to Green Collar Jobs? Populism and Clean Energy Transition

Knuth¹

2020

Environmental Governance in a Populist/Authoritarian Era

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“…These regimes should not be linked to certain scales a priori but must be studied historically and without scalar prejudice. Bridge and Bradshaw (2017) and Mulvaney (2016) have recently shown how 'global production networks' (GPNs) and 'commodity chains' provide tools for critical analysis of the actors, institutions, and activities that commodify energy resources and technologies across whole systems. Such tools can bring greater nuance to our understanding of ecologically unequal exchange.…”

Section: Ecologically Unequal Exchangementioning

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Out of steam: Energy, materiality, and political ecology

Cederlöf

2019

Progress in Human Geography

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Energy is increasingly used as a lens to study wider social processes. For political ecologists, ‘energy’ has usually been seen as a resource or socio-technical system that gives rise to contentious social relations. This article instead thinks of energy as a materiality with thermodynamic properties. At once, energy becomes an analytical concept with physical and political-economic dimensions. Developing this perspective, the article examines the notion of ecologically unequal exchange and unpacks discussions on how energy systems are co-productive of politicised environments. The outcome is an expanded definition of political ecology set out in relation to three modes of social power.

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Whatever Happened to Green Collar Jobs? Populism and Clean Energy Transition

Knuth

2019

Annals of the American Association of Geographers

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In today's populist moment, climate change response has become anything but "post-political". The project to decarbonize energy supplies is generating ongoing political clashes today, including between competing forms of capital/ism. In the United States, rising renewable energy industries in places like California contend with fossil fuel blocs and their regional bases. Such confrontations are sparking populist organizing on the right and left. I argue that critical geography must further consider left populist movements' role in these politics of clean energy transition, grievance, and reparation; and openings for collectively advancing more liberatory futures. I survey a wave of coalition-building that has evolved in the United States since the beginnings of the New Economy, allying U.S. environmentalists, organized labor, and more recently racial and community justice organizers. This movement became most visible as it built networks around calls for national "green collar" job creation during the late 2000s financial crisis and 2008 Presidential campaign. Its organizing shaped noteworthy, if ultimately limited Obama Administration programs and continues to influence clean energy rollout in regions such as California; particularly, campaigns for job quality and racial diversity in green construction. I consider here both these successes and their limits in a turbulent cleantech sector: the need for farther-reaching transformations in energy-industrial policy, and democratic participation in shaping them.

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Energy and Global Production Networks

Cited by 4 publications

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Whatever Happened to Green Collar Jobs? Populism and Clean Energy Transition

Whatever Happened to Green Collar Jobs? Populism and Clean Energy Transition

Out of steam: Energy, materiality, and political ecology

Whatever Happened to Green Collar Jobs? Populism and Clean Energy Transition

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