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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): Otchere-Darko W, Weszkalnys G
Publication type: Article
Publication status: Published
Journal: Environment and Planning D: Society and Space
Year: 2025
Pages: Epub ahead of print
Online publication date: 16/01/2025
Acceptance date: 11/12/2024
Date deposited: 16/12/2024
ISSN (print): 0263-7758
ISSN (electronic): 1472-3433
Publisher: Sage Publications Ltd
URL: https://doi.org/10.1177/02637758241312090
DOI: 10.1177/02637758241312090
ePrints DOI: 10.57711/5kt9-7515
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