Browse by author
Lookup NU author(s): Dr William Otchere-Darko
This is the authors' accepted manuscript of an article that has been accepted and is due to be published in its final definitive form by Sage Publications Ltd, 2024.
For re-use rights please refer to the publisher's terms and conditions.
This article develops the concept of "uncommoning" as a critique of prevailing modes of energy transition in the Global North. It integrates insight from critical geography, anthropology, and decolonial studies that challenge assumptions of linear progress, inevitability, and commonality underpinning energy transition experiments and highlight the fraught temporalities involved. Informed by ethnographic data on the contentious implementation of an Energy Transition Zone in Aberdeen (Scotland), we demonstrate how residents, campaigners, and their allies interrogate the shared ground on which dominant narratives of energy transition are staked, revealing underlying relationalities of power, epistemic inequity, and socio-economic disparities. The perspective of uncommoning does not propose simplistic alternatives but rather illuminates an emergent propositional politics that orients to modes of care, equity and justice.
Author(s): Weszkalnys G, Otchere-Darko W
Publication type: Article
Publication status: In Press
Journal: Environment and Planning D: Society and Space
Year: 2024
Acceptance date: 11/12/2024
Date deposited: 16/12/2024
ISSN (print): 0263-7758
ISSN (electronic): 1472-3433
Publisher: Sage Publications Ltd
