The age of the manager is over? Shale gas fracking and the challenge to the post-political regime for English planning

Fearn, Gareth

doi:10.1016/j.polgeo.2021.102550

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“…The problem that Truss and her finance minister, Kwasi Kwarteng, faced was that they announced the approximate £80billion increase in public spending (for the Guarantee) without cutting other spending or increasing the existing windfall tax. Combined with their other tax cuts, this led to the bond and gilt markets increasing the value of short-term government borrowing costs and household mortgages, leading Truss to resign (for a summary, see Lopez, 2022) after she lost a vote on removing the moratorium on shale gas fracking (Fearn, 2022).…”

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The end of the experiment? The energy crisis, neoliberal energy, and the limits to a socio-ecological fix

Fearn

2023

Environment and Planning E: Nature and Space

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The present energy crisis is one which is rooted in the contradictions of the neoliberalisation of energy. The UK is one of the pioneers of energy neoliberalisation and has been experimenting with different market arrangements since the 1980s, yet has found itself particularly exposed to the impacts of a global energy price shock. Through an analysis of policy documents, regulatory reports and historical energy policy literature, I identify how privatisation, regulatory experiments and market engineering under a neoliberal policy paradigm helped to create the conditions for the present crisis. Drawing on Hall's conception of policy paradigms, I argue that the neoliberal policy paradigm, for energy, is locked in a cycle of interventions at the second order to manage the contradictions of the third order priority of securing privatised energy markets and maintain legitimacy for the neoliberal energy system. The current energy crisis has led to the government making increasingly extreme second order interventions to stabilise the energy system to secure the interests of electricity capital and fossil capital. The present crisis, however, exposes the limits to a socio-ecological fix (for people, and for capital) within neoliberal hegemony.

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Section: A Terminal Crisis or Business As Usual?mentioning

confidence: 99%

The end of the experiment? The energy crisis, neoliberal energy, and the limits to a socio-ecological fix

Fearn

2023

Environment and Planning E: Nature and Space

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“…Im Verlauf dieser Arbeit habe ich verschiedentlich den technisch-verwaltenden Charakter von Transformationsinstrumenten gezeigt, den etwa Gareth Fearn (2022) 4…”

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Städte auf dem Weg zur Nachhaltigkeit

Acksel

2024

VerKörperungen/MatteRealities - Perspektiven Empirischer Wissenschaftsforschung

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Angesichts von Extremwetterereignissen, Klimaprognosen und Bewegungen wie Fridays for Future lässt sich schwer leugnen, dass ein Teil der Menschheit auf eine Weise lebt, die eine gut bewohnbare Welt höchst unwahrscheinlich macht. Städten wird in dieser Situation eine zentrale Rolle zugeschrieben. Sie können die Welt vor der Erderwärmung retten - oder sie sind die Ersten, die untergehen. Doch was genau wird getan, um Städte in Richtung Nachhaltigkeit zu transformieren? Britta Acksel nimmt Aktionspläne, Klimafestivals, Awards und weitere Transformationsinstrumente in den Blick. Ethnographisch fundiert zeigt sie auf, wie sich die Arbeit mit dieser speziellen Form von Policy-Werkzeugen gestaltet - und welche Bemühungen besonders aussichtsreich erscheinen.

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