Späth, P., Castán Broto, V., Bawakyillenuo, S. et al. (1 more author) (2022) The governance of energy transitions in Africa: a sketch of plural perspectives. Energy, Sustainability and Society, 12 (1). 51. ISSN 2192-0567
Abstract
Building on the contributions to the article collection “The Governance of Sustainable Energy Transitions in the Global South “, this editorial ofers a sketch for a research agenda on transitions research with a main focus on Africa. Still being ill-defned in its concrete contours, this research agenda engages with the central themes of heterogeneity, politics, and the material basis of energy transitions. In this editorial, we address both procedural and content-related questions. Regarding procedural questions, we inform about the context in which this collection emerged. On that, a workshop held in Accra in September 2019 was a key milestone. We contextualise the challenges that some workshop participants had with developing their contributions into publishable articles in the context of uneven academic support structures and knowledge hegemonies. Finally, we introduce the contributions to our article collection, emphasising how they connect and contribute to our draft research agenda. With regard to the content dimension, this article collection builds and proclaims the need for plural approaches to understanding energy transitions in Africa. A plurality of specifc context conditions calls for pluralistic analytical perspectives. Not taking for granted hegemonic, western ways of understanding energy systems and explaining change, we rather depart from engagements with the diversity of changes that aggregate into transition pathways—a diversity that in the context of Africa is impossible to overlook. To implement such a pluralistic research agenda, scholars need more opportunities to network, exchange and publish.
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Institution: | The University of Sheffield |
Academic Units: | The University of Sheffield > Faculty of Social Sciences (Sheffield) |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Sheffield |
Date Deposited: | 10 Jan 2023 10:56 |
Last Modified: | 10 Jan 2023 10:56 |
Published Version: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13705-022-00380-2 |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | Springer Science and Business Media LLC |
Refereed: | Yes |
Identification Number: | 10.1186/s13705-022-00380-2 |
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Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:195033 |