Kumar, A. orcid.org/0000-0001-7958-7083 and Taylor Aiken, G. (2021) A postcolonial critique of community energy: Searching for community as solidarity in India and Scotland. Antipode, 53 (1). pp. 200-221. ISSN 0066-4812
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.
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © 2020 The Authors. Antipode published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd on behalf of Antipode Foundation Ltd. This is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) which permits use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. |
Keywords: | community; postcolonial theory; solidarity; India; Scotland; energy transition; communauté; théorie postcoloniale; solidarité; Inde; Ecosse; transition énergétique |
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Institution: | The University of Sheffield |
Academic Units: | The University of Sheffield > Faculty of Social Sciences (Sheffield) > Department of Geography (Sheffield) |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Sheffield |
Date Deposited: | 17 May 2021 10:39 |
Last Modified: | 17 May 2021 10:39 |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | Wiley |
Refereed: | Yes |
Identification Number: | 10.1111/anti.12683 |
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Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:174136 |