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This book reconnects energy research with the radical, reflexive, and transformative approaches of Environmental Justice. Global patterns of energy production and use are disrupting the ecosystems that sustain all life, disproportionately affecting marginalized groups. Addressing such injustices, this book examines how energy relates to structural issues of exploitation, racism, colonialism, extractivism, the commodification of work, and the systemic devaluing of diverse 'others.' The result is a new agenda for critical energy research that builds on a growing global movement of environmental justice activism and scholarship. Throughout the book the author reframes 'transitions' as collaborative projects of justice that demand structural change and societal shifts to more equitable and reciprocal ways of living. This book will be an invaluable resource for students, scholars, and practitioners interested in transforming energy systems and working collectively to build just planetaryfutures.
List of contents
Chapter 1: Energy from the perspective of Environmental Justice.- Chapter 2: Transitions beyond crisis: pluralism, restoration, degrowth.- Chapter 3: A critical energy research agenda.
About the author
TRISTAN PARTRIDGE is a Research Fellow at the University of California, Santa Barbara and co-founder of the CREW Center for Restorative Environmental Work.
