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Accepted Paper:
Building Institutional Capacity for sustainability: an investigation of Knowledge Nodes and Information Transmission in Energy Transitions
Shailaja Fennell
(University of Cambridge)
Paper short abstract:
The construction of utopias in different geographical locations in the Global South are built on different understandings of vulnerability. An increasingly stratified form of provision changes information availability and knowledge management and this affects the understanding of sustainability.
Paper long abstract:
This paper examines the value of designing bottom-up indicators of resource sustainability. The rationale for this approach to managing energy transitions is that a commitment to sustainability require not only specific, monitorable indicators but also an enabling knowledge framework and implementation capacity within communities.
The paper examines energy transitions in countries in the Global South, and its relationship to recent work on energy justice and its relationship to Kantian ethics, which regards each person as an end (Sovacool and Dworkin, 2016). The paper makes the case that it is important to identify realistic utopias (Rawls, 1999) to understand the goals of development as set out by participants in the development process. It argues that the construction of utopias in different geographical locations in the Global South are built on an understanding of vulnerability that is located within socio-cultural-political context of the rural community.
The paper argues that the shift to forms of public private partnerships in the provision of services, with a simultaneous relinquishing of state responsibility can redraw the political space for community measurement of resource sustainability. In contrast, undergirding the provision for all citizens can increase the democratisation of everyday life. From an analysis of cases in South Asia and sub-Saharan Africa, it shows that an increasingly stratified provision changes the information base shared by all citizens, regarding energy services and its environmental impact. Alternatively, an increase in knowledge circulation within communities and advocacy of their own solutions can increase adoption of their forms of energy use by the Global North.
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Accepted Paper:
Shailaja Fennell (University of Cambridge)
Paper short abstract:
Paper long abstract:
This paper examines the value of designing bottom-up indicators of resource sustainability. The rationale for this approach to managing energy transitions is that a commitment to sustainability require not only specific, monitorable indicators but also an enabling knowledge framework and implementation capacity within communities.
The paper examines energy transitions in countries in the Global South, and its relationship to recent work on energy justice and its relationship to Kantian ethics, which regards each person as an end (Sovacool and Dworkin, 2016). The paper makes the case that it is important to identify realistic utopias (Rawls, 1999) to understand the goals of development as set out by participants in the development process. It argues that the construction of utopias in different geographical locations in the Global South are built on an understanding of vulnerability that is located within socio-cultural-political context of the rural community.
The paper argues that the shift to forms of public private partnerships in the provision of services, with a simultaneous relinquishing of state responsibility can redraw the political space for community measurement of resource sustainability. In contrast, undergirding the provision for all citizens can increase the democratisation of everyday life. From an analysis of cases in South Asia and sub-Saharan Africa, it shows that an increasingly stratified provision changes the information base shared by all citizens, regarding energy services and its environmental impact. Alternatively, an increase in knowledge circulation within communities and advocacy of their own solutions can increase adoption of their forms of energy use by the Global North.
Leaving, Living and Learning: Knowledge Production and its Impact on Designing Just Sustainable Futures
Session 1 Wednesday 6 July, 2022, -