A Postcolonial Critique of Community Energy: Searching for Community as Solidarity in India and Scotland. Issue 1 (27th October 2020)
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- Journal Article
- Title:
- A Postcolonial Critique of Community Energy: Searching for Community as Solidarity in India and Scotland. Issue 1 (27th October 2020)
- Main Title:
- A Postcolonial Critique of Community Energy: Searching for Community as Solidarity in India and Scotland
- Authors:
- Kumar, Ankit
Taylor Aiken, Gerald - Abstract:
- Abstract: Community renewable energy (CRE) represents a growing empirical and academic turn towards community‐based sustainability and climate change interventions. This paper brings together postcolonial theory and CRE for the first time to outline fundamental tensions in the conceptualisation and application of the idea of community. The understanding of community within the CRE discourse is largely: (1) location‐based; and/or (2) a community of choice that is consciously opted into. Driven by postcolonial theory, this paper counterpoises both as a form of community as contract against an idea of community as solidarity . Its central thesis is that actually existing community, contrary to how the bulk of CRE literature commonly understands it, is a combination of bonds of solidarity and emergent purposes. The paper conceptualises community as fluid bonds of solidarity that align and realign differently around different purposes. Résumé: L'énergie renouvelable communautaire (CRE) représente de plus en plus un virage empirique et académique en direction d'interventions communautaires de développement durable et de lutte contre le changement climatique. Cet article fait dialoguer pour la première fois la théorie postcoloniale et l'approche CRE afin de souligner les tensions fondamentales dans la conceptualisation et l'application de l'idée de communauté. La compréhension de la communauté dans le discours de la CRE est largement basée sur: (1) le local, le lieu, ou laAbstract: Community renewable energy (CRE) represents a growing empirical and academic turn towards community‐based sustainability and climate change interventions. This paper brings together postcolonial theory and CRE for the first time to outline fundamental tensions in the conceptualisation and application of the idea of community. The understanding of community within the CRE discourse is largely: (1) location‐based; and/or (2) a community of choice that is consciously opted into. Driven by postcolonial theory, this paper counterpoises both as a form of community as contract against an idea of community as solidarity . Its central thesis is that actually existing community, contrary to how the bulk of CRE literature commonly understands it, is a combination of bonds of solidarity and emergent purposes. The paper conceptualises community as fluid bonds of solidarity that align and realign differently around different purposes. Résumé: L'énergie renouvelable communautaire (CRE) représente de plus en plus un virage empirique et académique en direction d'interventions communautaires de développement durable et de lutte contre le changement climatique. Cet article fait dialoguer pour la première fois la théorie postcoloniale et l'approche CRE afin de souligner les tensions fondamentales dans la conceptualisation et l'application de l'idée de communauté. La compréhension de la communauté dans le discours de la CRE est largement basée sur: (1) le local, le lieu, ou la localisation; et / ou (2) une communauté de choix qui est délibérément choisie. Inspiré par la théorie postcoloniale, cet article s'oppose à ces deux acceptations de la communauté comme contrat pour proposer l'idée de communauté comme solidarité . La thèse centrale de l'article est que contrairement au sens donné la plupart du temps par la littérature traitant de la CRE, la communauté réellement existante est une combinaison de liens de solidarité et de finalités émergentes. L'article conceptualise la communauté comme des liens fluides de solidarité qui s'alignent et se réalignent différemment autour de différents objectifs. … (more)
- Is Part Of:
- Antipode. Volume 53:Issue 1(2021)
- Journal:
- Antipode
- Issue:
- Volume 53:Issue 1(2021)
- Issue Display:
- Volume 53, Issue 1 (2021)
- Year:
- 2021
- Volume:
- 53
- Issue:
- 1
- Issue Sort Value:
- 2021-0053-0001-0000
- Page Start:
- 200
- Page End:
- 221
- Publication Date:
- 2020-10-27
- Subjects:
- community -- postcolonial theory -- solidarity -- India -- Scotland -- energy transition
communauté -- théorie postcoloniale -- solidarité -- Inde -- Ecosse -- transition énergétique
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- http://estar.bl.uk/cgi-bin/sciserv.pl?collection=journals&journal=00664812 ↗
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/10.1111/(ISSN)1467-8330 ↗
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/ ↗ - DOI:
- 10.1111/anti.12683 ↗
- Languages:
- English
- ISSNs:
- 0066-4812
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