1st Edition
Routledge Handbook of Energy Democracy
This handbook offers a comprehensive transdisciplinary examination of the research and practices that constitute the emerging research agenda in energy democracy.
With protests over fossil fuels and controversies over nuclear and renewable energy technologies, democratic ideals have contributed to an emerging social movement. Energy democracy captures this movement and addresses the issues of energy access, ownership, and participation at a time when there are expanding social, political, environmental, and economic demands on energy systems. This volume defines energy democracy as both a social movement and an academic area of study and examines it through a social science and humanities lens, explaining key concepts and reflecting state-of-the-art research. The collection is comprised of six parts:
1 Scalar Dimensions of Power and Governance in Energy Democracy
2 Discourses of Energy Democracy
3 Grassroots and Critical Modes of Action
4 Democratic and Participatory Principles
5 Energy Resource Tensions
6 Energy Democracies in Practice
The vision of this handbook is explicitly transdisciplinary and global, including contributions from interdisciplinary international scholars and practitioners. The Routledge Handbook of Energy Democracy will be the premier source for all students and researchers interested in the field of energy, including policy, politics, transitions, access, justice, and public participation.
Chapter 1. Energy democracy: An introduction
Andrea M. Feldpausch-Parker and Danielle Endres
Part I: Scalar Dimensions of Power and Governance in Energy Democracy
Chapter 2. Scalar dimensions of power and governance in energy democracy: Introduction
Andrea M. Feldpausch-Parker
Chapter 3. International energy governance: Opportunities and challenges for democratic politics
Anabela Carvalho and Ana Horta
Chapter 4. Comparing and contrasting the institutional relationships, regulatory frameworks, and energy system governance of European and U.S. electric cooperatives
Stephanie Lenhart, Gabriel Chan, Matthew Grimley, and Elizabeth Wilson
Chapter 5. Energy democracy at the scale of Indigenous governance: Indigenous Native American struggles for democracy, justice, and decolonization
Danielle Endres and Taylor N. Johnson
Chapter 6. Conceptualizing energy democracy using the multiple streams framework: Actors, public participation, and scale in energy transitions
Nihit Goyal and Michael Howlett
Chapter 7. Part One response
Andrea M. Feldpausch-Parker
Part II: Discourses of Energy Democracy
Chapter 8. Discourses of energy democracy: Introduction
Stephanie L. Gomez and Danielle Endres
Chapter 9. Energy security: From security of supply to public participation
Christina Demski and Sarah Becker
Chapter 10. The premise and the promise: Energy poverty, capabilities, and the language of moral commitments
Brian Cozen
Chapter 11. A brief excursion into the many scales and voices of renewable energy colonialism
Susana Batel
Chapter 12. Energy dominance
Jennifer Schneider and Jennifer Peeples
Chapter 13. Part Two response
Danielle Endres and Stephanie L. Gomez
Part III: Grassroots and Critical Modes of Action
Chapter 14. Grassroots and critical modes of action: Introduction
Tarla Rai Peterson
Chapter 15. The state or the citizens for energy democracy? Municipal and cooperative models in the German energy transition
Sören Becker
Chapter 16. Institutionalizing energy democracy: The promises and pitfalls of electricity co-operative development
Julie L. MacArthur and M. Derya Tarhan
Chapter 17. A feminist lens on energy democracy: Redistributing power and resisting oppression through renewable transformation
Jennie C. Stephens and Elizabeth Allen
Chapter 18. Energy commons and alternatives to enclosures of sunshine and wind
Matthew J. Burke
Chapter 19. Part Three response
Tarla Rai Peterson
Part IV: Democratic and Participatory Principles
Chapter 20. Democratic and participatory principles of Energy Democracy: Introduction
Tarla Rai Peterson
Chapter 21. Splitting (over) the atom: Nuclear energy and democratic conflict
William J. Kinsella
Chapter 22. Public participation and energy system transformations
Jake Barnes
Chapter 23. The complex relations between justice and participation in collaborative planning processes for a renewable energy transition
Patrick Scherhaufer
Chapter 24. Participation in non-democracies: Rural Thailand as a site of energy democracy
Laurence L. Delina
Chapter 25. Part Four response
Tarla Rai Peterson
Part V: Energy Resource Tensions
Chapter 26. Energy resource tensions: Introduction
Andrea M. Feldpausch-Parker
Chapter 27. Energy democracy, nuclear power, and participatory knowledge production about radiation risks
Tatiana Kasperski and Olga Kuchinskaya
Chapter 28. A fracked society: Multi-state media analysis of hydraulic fracturing in the USA
Andrea M. Feldpausch-Parker and Katelind Batill-Bigler
Chapter 29. Latin American hydropower sacrifice zones
Mary Finley-Brook
Chapter 30. Postcards from the future: Hawaii’s transition to wind and solar energy
Cristi Choat Horton, Nicolas Hernandez, and Tarla Rai Peterson
Chapter 31. Part Five response
Andrea M. Feldpausch-Parker
Part VI: Energy Democracies in Practice
Chapter 32. Energy democracies in practice: Introduction
Stephanie L. Gomez and Danielle Endres
Chapter 33. Carbon neutral pledges: Public opinions, opportunities, and challenges for energy democracy
Meaghan McKasy and Sara K. Yeo
Chapter 34. Beyond the Ivory Tower: Exploring the role of universities towards sustainable energy transitions in post-disaster environments
Marla Perez Lugo, Cecilio Ortiz García, and Lionel Orama Exclusa
Chapter 35. Low carbon energy democracy in the Global South?
Ben Campbell, Jon Cloke, and Ed Brown
Chapter 36. Energy democracy in practice: Centering energy sovereignty in rural communities and Tribal Nations
Douglas Bessette, Chelsea Schelly, Laura Schmitt Olabisi, Valoree S. Gagnon, Andrew Fiss, Kristin L. Arola, Elise Matz, Rebecca Ong and Kathleen E. Halvorsen
Chapter 37. Part Six response
Danielle Endres and Stephanie L. Gomez
Chapter 38. Conclusion: The future of energy democracies
Danielle Endres, Andrea M. Feldpausch-Parker and Tarla Rai Peterson
Chapter 39. Afterword: Energy democracy, Episode 196 of Cultures of Energy Podcast
Dominic Boyer, Cymene Howe, Danielle Endres, Andrea M. Feldpausch-Parker, and Tarla Rai Peterson
Biography
Andrea M. Feldpausch-Parker is an associate professor of environmental and science communication at the State University of New York College of Environmental Science and Forestry (SUNY-ESF), USA.
Danielle Endres is a professor of communication and affiliated faculty in environmental humanities at the University of Utah, USA.
Tarla Rai Peterson is a professor of communication and affiliated faculty in environmental science and engineering at the University of Texas at El Paso, USA.
Stephanie L. Gomez is an assistant professor of communication studies at Western Washington University, USA.
"A jaw dropping, rich, and wondrously comprehensive treatment of the topic of energy democracy. A refreshing reminder than energy decisions, policies, and pathways have as much to do with politics and systems of political deliberation as they do hardware, infrastructure, or tariffs. For acts of energy consumption, investment or self-generation can be political statements alongside transactions in the marketplace or preferences for some technical criterion. This book offers a refreshing, urgent reminder of what is at stake—it is at once a sober diagnosis, a creative piece of scholarship, and a call for action."
Benjamin K. Sovacool, Professor of Energy Policy, University of Sussex
"This Handbook considers "energy democracy" as both a social movement and a terminological "composition" or way into important conversations about how technological innovation, new economic and political structures, and adaptive communication practices are all required to transform our broken relationship with the planet. Incredibly timely given recent events from Texas to India to around the globe!"
Stephen P. Depoe, Professor and Head, Department of Communication, University of Cincinnati
"Smart, comprehensive, and internationally authored, Routledge Handbook of Energy Democracy is an essential reference for scholars and climate activists alike in understanding the sociotechnical complexities of the energy transition now occurring and the urgent choices the climate crisis is demanding of us."
Robert Cox, Professor Emeritus, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
"A groundbreaking and highly recommended intervention that challenges taken-for-granted assumptions that energy transition necessarily delivers more sustainable futures. Contributors interrogate up-and-downstream aspects of energy assemblages, exploring new technologies and articulating participatory alternatives in the context of resource constraints and climate crisis. This collection is a must for exploring just transition."
Majia H. Nadesan, Professor of Communication, Arizona State University
"The intersection of energy, environmental, and security concerns creates urgent problems requiring collaborative solutions. This exciting volume provides a rich and ambitious overview of democratic concepts and practices that can empower scholars and activists in transforming the disastrous trends currently created by technocratic, neo-colonial, and corporate-capitalist control of energy systems."
Bryan C. Taylor, Professor of Communication, University of Colorado Boulder
