Coal, Climate Justice, and the Cultural Politics of Energy Transition
Coal, Climate Justice, and the Cultural Politics of Energy Transition
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DOI：
10.1162/glep_a_00501
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发表时间：
2019-05-01
影响因子：
4.8
通讯作者：
Spiegel, Samuel J.
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作者：
Brown, Benjamin;Spiegel, Samuel J.
在气候变化巴黎协定之后，逐步淘汰燃煤发电的承诺为全球能源转型提供了乐观的理由。然而，在世界许多地方，煤炭仍然与有争议的发展议程纠缠在一起，而化石燃料工业继续蓬勃发展。本文通过一个气候正义的透镜来讨论这些纠结，这个透镜涉及围绕煤炭和能源转型的文化政治。我们强调了最近围绕逐步淘汰煤炭的斗争如何激发了更广泛地围绕殖民主义，帝国和资本主义的新的批判性辩论，认识到气候变化是一个包含种族，性别和经济正义的交叉问题。随着社会运动陷入抵制煤矿，发电厂和相关基础设施的发展或扩张的斗争，我们解开了跨国联盟连接世界各地不同社区时出现的紧张局势。我们的结论表明，有必要更多地批判性地参与如何将交叉不平等编码到煤炭的文化政治中，以及这如何塑造追求公正过渡的努力。
In the wake of the Paris Agreement on climate change, promises to phase out coal-fired power have suggested cause for optimism around energy transition globally. However, coal remains entangled with contentious development agendas in many parts of the world, while fossil fuel industries continue to flourish. This article discusses these entanglements through a climate justice lens that engages the cultural politics surrounding coal and energy transition. We highlight how recent struggles around phasing out coal have stimulated renewed critical debates around colonialism, empire, and capitalism more broadly, recognizing climate change as an intersectional issue encompassing racial, gender, and economic justice. With social movements locked in struggles to resist the development or expansion of coal mines, power plants, and associated infrastructure, we unpack tensions that emerge as transnational alliances connect disparate communities across the world. Our conclusion signals the need for greater critical engagement with how intersecting inequalities are coded into the cultural politics of coal, and how this shapes efforts to pursue a just transition.