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Solar aporias: On precarity and praxis in interdisciplinary research on solar energy
Solar power is uniquely effective at mitigating the climate crisis and is becoming the cheapest form of energy globally. However, the proliferation of solar power has been uneven and inequitable. For example, large-scale solar infrastructures are awash with globalized financial capital, often developed through the gendered and racialized alienation of land and livelihoods of local marginalized populations. The imperative to mitigate the climate crisis within this consequential decade sadly supersedes equity considerations, inspiring many solar scholars to scream for solar justice. We posit that solar development is an aporia, a perplexing prefigured yet performed impasse against sustainability and equity that anticipates urgent implementation while requiring patient interrogation. In this synthesis overview, we examine the state of social science research on solar power to illuminate critically constructive scholarly inquiry, foster emancipatory praxis, and generate provocations for future research. The articles in this collection explore the aporias of solar photovoltaic development in the global North and global South from heterogeneous scholarly fields, methodological approaches, theoretical frameworks and case studies.
期刊介绍:
Energy Research & Social Science (ERSS) is a peer-reviewed international journal that publishes original research and review articles examining the relationship between energy systems and society. ERSS covers a range of topics revolving around the intersection of energy technologies, fuels, and resources on one side and social processes and influences - including communities of energy users, people affected by energy production, social institutions, customs, traditions, behaviors, and policies - on the other. Put another way, ERSS investigates the social system surrounding energy technology and hardware. ERSS is relevant for energy practitioners, researchers interested in the social aspects of energy production or use, and policymakers.
Energy Research & Social Science (ERSS) provides an interdisciplinary forum to discuss how social and technical issues related to energy production and consumption interact. Energy production, distribution, and consumption all have both technical and human components, and the latter involves the human causes and consequences of energy-related activities and processes as well as social structures that shape how people interact with energy systems. Energy analysis, therefore, needs to look beyond the dimensions of technology and economics to include these social and human elements.