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  • 3 - Karnataka, India

  • James Goodman, University of Technology Sydney, Gareth Bryant, University of Sydney, Linda Connor, University of Sydney, Devleena Ghosh, University of Technology Sydney, Jonathan Paul Marshall, University of Technology Sydney, Tom Morton, Martin Luther University of Halle-Wittenberg, Katja Müller, Merseburg University for Applied Sciences, Stuart Rosewarne, University of Sydney, Riikka Heikkinen, University of Technology Sydney, Lisa Lumsden, University of Technology Sydney, Mareike Pampus, Martin Luther University of Halle-Wittenberg, Priya Pillai, University of Technology Sydney
  • Book:
    Decarbonising Electricity
    Published online:
    20 June 2025
    Print publication:
    03 July 2025, pp 97-133

  • Summary

    The chapter explores the social relations of renewable energy and everyday life in the Indian state of Karnataka, focusing on the 2 GW Pavagada solar energy park, said to be the largest in Asia, and on the experience of wind energy at the local level. It analyses these installations in the historical context of national and state-level energy policy, framed by wider developmental dynamics and stratification in the Karnataka locality. We contrast the renewable ‘resource’ with fossil fuel sources and highlight differences between solar and wind power. We discuss the drive to attract renewable investment to the region, along with development finance, in the context of Karnataka’s development trajectory. We interpret the transition to renewable energy in terms of social structures and the extent to which it exacerbates or alleviates pre-existing social divides. There is a strong focus on implications for land, water, livelihood, caste, gender, and environment, including for instance the role, or displacement, of rural landless and lower-caste groups.

  • Introduction

  • James Goodman, University of Technology Sydney, Gareth Bryant, University of Sydney, Linda Connor, University of Sydney, Devleena Ghosh, University of Technology Sydney, Jonathan Paul Marshall, University of Technology Sydney, Tom Morton, Martin Luther University of Halle-Wittenberg, Katja Müller, Merseburg University for Applied Sciences, Stuart Rosewarne, University of Sydney, Riikka Heikkinen, University of Technology Sydney, Lisa Lumsden, University of Technology Sydney, Mareike Pampus, Martin Luther University of Halle-Wittenberg, Priya Pillai, University of Technology Sydney
  • Book:
    Decarbonising Electricity
    Published online:
    20 June 2025
    Print publication:
    03 July 2025, pp 1-18

  • Summary

    The Introduction sets the rationale and parameters for the study. The rationale begins with the growing climate crisis and the urgent necessity to decarbonise energy. It outlines the limits of the current assumption that private sector investment can deliver the required decarbonisation. Public legitimacy for renewables, we argue, has moved to the centre of the energy transition, requiring stronger forms of social ownership over the emerging energy systems. New roles for the state in decarbonising society are highlighted, along with a ‘re-commoning’ agenda and issues of sufficiency. Finally, the book’s focus on investigating and comparing region-level ‘success’ stories is outlined.

  • 1 - The Promise of Renewable Energy

  • James Goodman, University of Technology Sydney, Gareth Bryant, University of Sydney, Linda Connor, University of Sydney, Devleena Ghosh, University of Technology Sydney, Jonathan Paul Marshall, University of Technology Sydney, Tom Morton, Martin Luther University of Halle-Wittenberg, Katja Müller, Merseburg University for Applied Sciences, Stuart Rosewarne, University of Sydney, Riikka Heikkinen, University of Technology Sydney, Lisa Lumsden, University of Technology Sydney, Mareike Pampus, Martin Luther University of Halle-Wittenberg, Priya Pillai, University of Technology Sydney
  • Book:
    Decarbonising Electricity
    Published online:
    20 June 2025
    Print publication:
    03 July 2025, pp 19-52

  • Summary

    We outline the socio-ecological appropriation of ‘nature’s free gifts’ of wind and sun for renewable energy, understood as a process of capture, which opens a new ‘frontier’ in capital-nature relations. We elaborate on the term ‘nature’s free gifts’, originally derived from Marx, and its use in Marxist approaches to ecology and social theory as documented by Saito (2022). Second, we highlight the process of securing a spatial, temporal, and social ‘fix’ for large-scale renewables, to enable accumulation, and as an emerging aspect of rivalry between region-level authorities and developers to reap the rewards of the renewable energy transition. Third, we focus on the social relations of renewable accumulation, encompassing state authorities, corporates, workers, landowners, and communities, engaged in a contest to define models for renewable transition and lay claim to ‘nature’s free gifts’. These three strands are used to develop a conceptual model to interpret the social legitimacy of renewable transition and to guide the comparative analysis.

  • 4 - Brandenburg, Germany

  • James Goodman, University of Technology Sydney, Gareth Bryant, University of Sydney, Linda Connor, University of Sydney, Devleena Ghosh, University of Technology Sydney, Jonathan Paul Marshall, University of Technology Sydney, Tom Morton, Martin Luther University of Halle-Wittenberg, Katja Müller, Merseburg University for Applied Sciences, Stuart Rosewarne, University of Sydney, Riikka Heikkinen, University of Technology Sydney, Lisa Lumsden, University of Technology Sydney, Mareike Pampus, Martin Luther University of Halle-Wittenberg, Priya Pillai, University of Technology Sydney
  • Book:
    Decarbonising Electricity
    Published online:
    20 June 2025
    Print publication:
    03 July 2025, pp 134-170

  • Summary

    The chapter centres on the expansion of wind power and the subsequent ‘solar rush’ in the German ‘energy state’ of Brandenburg, where the energy transition (or Energiewende) has been underway for more than two decades. We follow the unfolding process of renewable energy development and socio-ecological capture, paying particular attention to the changing scale of operations exemplified by a move to larger wind turbines and the current shift to large-scale solar farms. The chapter provides a rich account of the nexus between a well-established renewables sector and other forms of land use, such as leisure, aesthetics, agriculture, or forestry. The conflict between narratives of regional and local development, prompted, defined, and mobilised in the energy transition, is seen as opening new fields of engagement and disputation in the emerging ‘green’ economy.

  • 2 - Renewable Energy Regions

  • James Goodman, University of Technology Sydney, Gareth Bryant, University of Sydney, Linda Connor, University of Sydney, Devleena Ghosh, University of Technology Sydney, Jonathan Paul Marshall, University of Technology Sydney, Tom Morton, Martin Luther University of Halle-Wittenberg, Katja Müller, Merseburg University for Applied Sciences, Stuart Rosewarne, University of Sydney, Riikka Heikkinen, University of Technology Sydney, Lisa Lumsden, University of Technology Sydney, Mareike Pampus, Martin Luther University of Halle-Wittenberg, Priya Pillai, University of Technology Sydney
  • Book:
    Decarbonising Electricity
    Published online:
    20 June 2025
    Print publication:
    03 July 2025, pp 53-96

  • Summary

    The chapter tracks the field of renewable energy transition in the three sub-national states where the ethnographic studies are located: Karnataka, Brandenburg, and South Australia. It applies the conceptual model outlined in Chapter 1 to address the full scope of the transition in these regions. The model is used to analytically ‘unbundle’ the dimensions of transition in the three contrasting regions of study, allowing deeper understanding of the relations in play. The chapter focuses on each state in turn, providing historical and contemporary data about renewable energy policy-making and development at the region level in the context of national authorities and global institutions and agencies. We demonstrate the process of renewable ‘capture’ by capital, but also how it is contested and the extent to which it prefigures more democratic social relations and new ‘forms of collective life’.

  • Conclusions

  • James Goodman, University of Technology Sydney, Gareth Bryant, University of Sydney, Linda Connor, University of Sydney, Devleena Ghosh, University of Technology Sydney, Jonathan Paul Marshall, University of Technology Sydney, Tom Morton, Martin Luther University of Halle-Wittenberg, Katja Müller, Merseburg University for Applied Sciences, Stuart Rosewarne, University of Sydney, Riikka Heikkinen, University of Technology Sydney, Lisa Lumsden, University of Technology Sydney, Mareike Pampus, Martin Luther University of Halle-Wittenberg, Priya Pillai, University of Technology Sydney
  • Book:
    Decarbonising Electricity
    Published online:
    20 June 2025
    Print publication:
    03 July 2025, pp 243-256

  • Summary

    The Conclusions widen the lens to develop a series of substantive recommendations for policymakers, regional, national, and global, who are seeking to strengthen public legitimacy for electricity decarbonisation. It also seeks to draw out implications, in the long haul, for recasting socio-ecological relations under climate change in more democratic directions, to realise its fullest potential for societal transformation, and democratic engagement. As with energy transitions in the past, the current juncture offers manifold (still undreamt-of) possibilities: we argue for a transition regime that allows for such possibilities to be fostered and realised. There is capacity and agency for distributed renewables, for energy transformations and new forms of energy social ownership and democratisation, in other words, for a ‘re-commoning’ of socio-ecological relations.

  • 5 - South Australia

  • James Goodman, University of Technology Sydney, Gareth Bryant, University of Sydney, Linda Connor, University of Sydney, Devleena Ghosh, University of Technology Sydney, Jonathan Paul Marshall, University of Technology Sydney, Tom Morton, Martin Luther University of Halle-Wittenberg, Katja Müller, Merseburg University for Applied Sciences, Stuart Rosewarne, University of Sydney, Riikka Heikkinen, University of Technology Sydney, Lisa Lumsden, University of Technology Sydney, Mareike Pampus, Martin Luther University of Halle-Wittenberg, Priya Pillai, University of Technology Sydney
  • Book:
    Decarbonising Electricity
    Published online:
    20 June 2025
    Print publication:
    03 July 2025, pp 171-215

  • Summary

    The chapter focuses on South Australia’s Upper Spencer Gulf region in South Australia, which now aspires to 500% renewable energy by 2050. The state has access to world-best onshore wind and solar, with downstream industrial linkages that are now fuelling new spatio-temporal planning horizons. While the state promotes the new energy industry as a ‘green’ industrial economy, ethnographic research reveals mixed outcomes. Local socio-ecological relations are changing favourably for some groups, such as for host landowners and Aboriginal native title holders. Others find themselves left out or further marginalised. Post-construction, renewable energy installations offer few jobs, in localities where unemployment rates are high. Dissatisfaction erupts during the project application processes, where the limits of local demands for meaningful involvement, equitable sharing of benefits, and accountable planning regulation become clear. These, we argue, pose significant threats to the social legitimacy of renewable energy.

  • 6 - Comparative Analysis

  • James Goodman, University of Technology Sydney, Gareth Bryant, University of Sydney, Linda Connor, University of Sydney, Devleena Ghosh, University of Technology Sydney, Jonathan Paul Marshall, University of Technology Sydney, Tom Morton, Martin Luther University of Halle-Wittenberg, Katja Müller, Merseburg University for Applied Sciences, Stuart Rosewarne, University of Sydney, Riikka Heikkinen, University of Technology Sydney, Lisa Lumsden, University of Technology Sydney, Mareike Pampus, Martin Luther University of Halle-Wittenberg, Priya Pillai, University of Technology Sydney
  • Book:
    Decarbonising Electricity
    Published online:
    20 June 2025
    Print publication:
    03 July 2025, pp 216-242

  • Summary

    This chapter centres on comparative analysis, drawing together evidence-based insights into how renewable energy has been developed in the three regions. The three-part framework outlined in the opening chapter is used to analyse problems of legitimacy in renewable energy development in the three contexts. The three dimensions of appropriation, accumulation, and regulation shape the comparative analysis and underpin a suggested schema for interpreting legitimacy issues in renewable energy transitions. We discuss how renewables have been progressed, both locally and in terms of the intersecting dynamics of global policy, finance, and advocacy in constituting region-level transitions.

Decarbonising Electricity
  • The Promise of Renewable Energy Regions
  • James Goodman, Gareth Bryant, Linda Connor, Devleena Ghosh, Jonathan Paul Marshall, Tom Morton, Katja Müller, Stuart Rosewarne, Riikka Heikkinen, Lisa Lumsden, Mareike Pampus, Priya Pillai
  • Published online:
    20 June 2025
    Print publication:
    03 July 2025
  • The current shift to renewable energy is dominated by globalised energy companies building large-scale wind and solar plants. This book discusses the consequences and possibilities of this shift in India, Germany, and Australia, focusing on regions which have now largely decarbonised electricity generation. The authors show how centralised models of energy provision are maintained, and chart their impacts in terms of energy geography, social stratification, and socio-ecological appropriation. The chapters emphasise the prominent role played by state regulation, financial incentives, and public infrastructure for corporate renewables, arguing that public provision should be re-purposed for distributed renewables, social equity in affected regions, and for wider social benefit. This interdisciplinary book provides fertile building ground for research in - and application of - future energy transitions. It will appeal to students, researchers, and policy makers from anthropology, sociology, politics and political economy, geography, and environmental and sustainability studies.

  • 27 Assessing Differences in Academic Achievement Among a National Sample of Children with Epilepsy Before and During the COVID-19 Pandemic

  • Brandon Almy, Lauren Scimeca, David Marshall, Brittany L. Nordhaus, Erin Fedak Romanowski, Nancy McNamara, Elise Hodges, Madison M. Berl, Alyssa Ailion, Donald J. Bearden, Katrina Boyer, Crystal M. Cooper, Amanda M. Decrow, Priscilla H. Duong, Patricia Espe-Pfeifer, Marsha Gabriel, Jennifer I. Koop, Kelly A. McNally, Andrew Molnar, Emily Olsen, Kim E. Ono, Kristina E. Patrick, Brianna Paul, Jonathan Romain, Leigh N. Sepeta, Rebecca L.H. Stilp, Greta N. Wilkening, Mike Zaccariello, Frank Zelko
  • Journal:
    Journal of the International Neuropsychological Society / Volume 29 / Issue s1 / November 2023
    Published online by Cambridge University Press:
    21 December 2023, pp. 28-29
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  • Objective:

    The COVID-19 pandemic significantly disrupted schools and learning formats. Children with epilepsy are at-risk for generalized academic difficulties. We investigated the potential impact of COVID-19 on learning in those with epilepsy by comparing achievement on well-established academic measures among school-age children with epilepsy referred prior to the COVID-19 pandemic and those referred during the COVID-19 pandemic.

    Participants and Methods:

    This study included 466 children [52% male, predominately White (76%), MAge=10.75 years] enrolled in the Pediatric Epilepsy Research Consortium Epilepsy (PERC) Surgery database project who were referred for surgery and seen for neuropsychological testing. Patients were divided into two groups based on a proxy measure of pandemic timing completed by PERC research staff at each site (i.e., “were there any changes to typical in-person administration [of the evaluation] due to COVID?”). 31% of the sample (N = 144) were identified as having testing during the pandemic (i.e., “yes” response), while 69% were identified as having testing done pre-pandemic (i.e., “no” response). Of the 31% who answered yes, 99% of administration changes pertained to in-person testing or other changes, with 1% indicating remote testing. Academic achievement was assessed by performance measures (i.e., word reading, reading comprehension, spelling, math calculations, and math word problems) across several different tests. T-tests compared the two groups on each academic domain. Subsequent analyses examined potential differences in academic achievement among age cohorts that approximately matched grade level [i.e., grade school (ages 5-10), middle school (ages 11-14), and high school (ages 15-18)].

    Results:

    No significant differences were found between children who underwent an evaluation before the pandemic compared to those assessed during the pandemic based on age norms across academic achievement subtests (all p’s > .34). Similarly, there were no significant differences among age cohorts. The average performance for each age cohort generally fell in the low average range across academic skills. Performance inconsistently varied between age cohorts. The youngest cohort (ages 5-10) scored lower than the other cohorts for sight-word reading, whereas this cohort scored higher than the middle cohort (ages 11-14) for math word problems and reading comprehension. There were no significant differences between the two pandemic groups on demographic variables, intellectual functioning, or epilepsy variables (i.e., age of onset, number of seizure medications, seizure frequency).

    Conclusions:

    Academic functioning was generally equivalent between children with epilepsy who underwent academic testing as part of a pre-surgical evaluation prior to the pandemic compared to those who received testing during the pandemic. Additionally, academic functioning did not significantly differ between age cohorts. Children with epilepsy may have entered the pandemic with effective academic supports and/or were accustomed to school disruptions given their seizure history. Replication is needed as findings are based on a proxy measure of pandemic timing and the extent to which children experienced in-person, remote, and hybrid learning is unknown. Children tested a year into the pandemic, after receiving instruction through varying educational methods, may score differently than those tested earlier. Future research can address these gaps. Although it is encouraging that academic functioning was not disproportionately impacted during the pandemic in this sample, children with epilepsy are at-risk for generalized academic difficulties and continued monitoring of academic functioning is necessary.

  • 3 Latent Wechsler Profiles in Presurgical Pediatric Epilepsy

  • Madison M Berl, Erin T Kaseda, Jennifer I Koop, Brandon Almy, Alyssa Ailion, Donald J Bearden, Katrina Boyer, Crystal M Cooper, Amanda M DeCrow, Priscilla H Duong, Patricia Espe-Pfeifer, Marsha Gabriel, Elise Hodges, David Marshall, Kelly A McNally, Andrew Molnar, Emily Olsen, Kim E Ono, Kristina E Patrick, Brianna Paul, Jonathan Romain, Leigh N Sepeta, Rebecca LH Stilp, Greta Wilkening, Michael Zaccariello, Frank Zelko, PERC Epilepsy Surgery Database Project
  • Journal:
    Journal of the International Neuropsychological Society / Volume 29 / Issue s1 / November 2023
    Published online by Cambridge University Press:
    21 December 2023, pp. 308-310
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  • Objective:

    The Pediatric Epilepsy Research Consortium (PERC) Epilepsy Surgery Database Project is a multisite collaborative that includes neuropsychological evaluations of children presenting for epilepsy surgery. There is some evidence for specific neuropsychological phenotypes within epilepsy (Hermann et al, 2016); however, this is less clear in pediatric patients. As a first step, we applied an empirically-based subtyping approach to determine if there were specific profiles using indices from the Wechsler scales [Verbal IQ (VIQ), Nonverbal IQ (NVIQ), Processing Speed Index (PSI), Working Memory Index (WMI)]. We hypothesized that there would be at least four profiles that are distinguished by slow processing speed and poor working memory as well as profiles with significant differences between verbal and nonverbal reasoning abilities.

    Participants and Methods:

    Our study included 372 children (M=12.1 years SD=4.1; 77.4% White; 48% male) who completed an age-appropriate Wechsler measure, enough to render at least two index scores. Epilepsy characteristics included 84.4% with focal epilepsy (evenly distributed between left and right focus) and 13.5% with generalized or mixed seizure types; mean age of onset = 6.7 years, SD = 4.5; seizure frequency ranged from daily to less than monthly; 53% had structural etiology; 71% had an abnormal MRI; and mean number of antiseizure medications was two. Latent profile analysis was used to identify discrete underlying cognitive profiles based on intellectual functioning. Demographic and epilepsy characteristics were compared among profiles.

    Results:

    Based on class enumeration procedures, a 3-cluster solution provided the best fit for the data, with profiles characterized by generally Average, Low Average, or Below Average functioning. 32.8% were in the Average profile with mean index scores ranging from 91.7-103.2; 47.6% were in the Low Average profile with mean index ranging from 80.7 to 84.5; and 19.6% were in the Below Average profile with mean index scores ranging from 55.0-63.1. Across all profiles, the lowest mean score was the PSI, followed by WMI. VIQ and NVIQ represented relatively higher scores for all three profiles. Mean discrepancy between indices within a profile was as large as 11.5 IQ points. No demographics or epilepsy characteristics were significantly different across cognitive phenotypes.

    Conclusions:

    Latent cognitive phenotypes in a pediatric presurgical cohort were differentiated by general level of functioning; however, across profiles, processing speed was consistently the lowest index followed by working memory. These findings across phenotypes suggest a common relative weakness which may result from a global effect of antiseizure medications and/or the widespread impact of seizures on neural networks even in a largely focal epilepsy cohort; similar to adult studies with temporal lobe epilepsy (Hermann et al, 2007). Future work will use latent profile analysis to examine phenotypes across other domains relevant to pediatric epilepsy including attention, naming, motor, and memory functioning. These findings are in line with collaborative efforts towards cognitive phenotyping which is the aim of our PERC Epilepsy Surgery Database Project that has already established one of the largest pediatric epilepsy surgery cohorts.

  • 26 The Importance of Executive Functioning for Academic Achievement Among a National Sample of Children with Epilepsy

  • Brandon Almy, David Marshall, Brittany L. Nordhaus, Erin Fedak Romanowski, Nancy McNamara, Elise Hodges, Madison M. Berl, Alyssa Ailion, Donald J. Bearden, Katrina Boyer, Crystal M. Cooper, Amanda M. Decrow, Priscilla H. Duong, Patricia Espe-Pfeifer, Marsha Gabriel, Jennifer I. Koop, Kelly A. McNally, Andrew Molnar, Emily Olsen, Kim E. Ono, Kristina E. Patrick, Brianna Paul, Jonathan Romain, Leigh N. Sepeta, Rebecca L.H. Stilp, Greta N. Wilkening, Mike Zaccariello, Frank Zelko
  • Journal:
    Journal of the International Neuropsychological Society / Volume 29 / Issue s1 / November 2023
    Published online by Cambridge University Press:
    21 December 2023, pp. 26-27
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  • Objective:

    Children with epilepsy are at greater risk of lower academic achievement than their typically developing peers (Reilly and Neville, 2015). Demographic, social, and neuropsychological factors, such as executive functioning (EF), mediate this relation. While research emphasizes the importance of EF skills for academic achievement among typically developing children (e.g., Best et al., 2011; Spiegel et al., 2021) less is known among children with epilepsy (Ng et al., 2020). The purpose of this study is to examine the influence of EF skills on academic achievement in a nationwide sample of children with epilepsy.

    Participants and Methods:

    Participants included 427 children with epilepsy (52% male; MAge= 10.71), enrolled in the Pediatric Epilepsy Research Consortium (PERC) Epilepsy Surgery Database who had been referred for surgery and underwent neuropsychological testing. Academic achievement was assessed by performance measures (word reading, reading comprehension, spelling, and calculation and word-based mathematics) and parent-rating measures (Adaptive Behavior Assessment System (ABAS) Functional Academics and Child Behavior Checklist (CBCL) School Performance). EF was assessed by verbal fluency measures, sequencing, and planning measures from the Delis Kaplan Executive Function System (DKEFS), NEPSY, and Tower of London test. Rating-based measures of EF included the 'Attention Problems’ subscale from the CBCL and 'Cognitive Regulation’ index from the Behavior Rating Inventory of Executive Function (BRIEF-2). Partial correlations assessed associations between EF predictors and academic achievement, controlling for fullscale IQ (FSIQ; A composite across intelligence tests). Significant predictors of each academic skill or rating were entered into a two-step regression that included FSIQ, demographics, and seizure variables (age of onset, current medications) in the first step with EF predictors in the second step.

    Results:

    Although zero-order correlations were significant between EF predictors and academic achievement (.29 < r’s < .63 for performance; -.63 < r’s < -.50 for rating measures), partial correlations controlling for FSIQ showed fewer significant relations. For performance-based EF, only letter fluency (DKEFS Letter Fluency) and cognitive flexibility (DKEFS Trails Condition 4) demonstrated significant associations with performance-based academic achievement (r’s > .29). Regression models for performance-based academic achievement indicated that letter fluency (ß = .22, p = .017) and CBCL attention problems (ß = -.21, p =.002) were significant predictors of sight-word reading. Only letter fluency (ß = .23, p =.006) was significant for math calculation. CBCL Attention Problems were a significant predictor of spelling performance (ß = -.21, p = .009) and reading comprehension (ß = -.18, p =.039). CBCL Attention Problems (ß = -.38, p <.001 for ABAS; ß = -.34, p =.002 for CBCL School) and BRIEF-2 Cognitive Regulation difficulties (ß = -.46, p < .001 for ABAS; ß = -.46, p =.013 for CBCL School) were significant predictors of parent-rated ABAS Functional Academics and CBCL School Performance.

    Conclusions:

    Among a national pediatric epilepsy dataset, performance-based and ratings-based measures of EF predicted performance academic achievement, whereas only ratings-based EF predicted parent-rated academic achievement, due at least in part to shared method variance. These findings suggest that interventions that increase cognitive regulation, reduce symptoms of attention dysfunction, and promote self-generative, flexible thinking, may promote academic achievement among children with epilepsy.

  • 1 - The Global Contest over Coal and Development

  • James Goodman, University of Technology Sydney, Linda Connor, University of Sydney, Devleena Ghosh, University of Technology Sydney, Kanchi Kohli, Jonathan Paul Marshall, University of Technology Sydney, Manju Menon, Katja Mueller, Martin Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg, Germany, Tom Morton, University of Technology Sydney, Rebecca Pearse, University of Sydney, Stuart Rosewarne, University of Sydney
  • Book:
    Beyond the Coal Rush
    Published online:
    06 November 2020
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    26 November 2020, pp 13-30

  • Summary

    Chapter 1 introduces the book’s main theme, namely the growing global contest over the future of coal. Three main aspects are identified – the changing world-historical status of coal as the fuel of development, the shifting significance of the coal commodity in economic growth, and its impact as a central driver of climate change and ecological exhaustion. Government-led development ideology remains closely bound up with the extraction of coal as a source of energy security, yet is increasingly exposed and contested. Increased populist rejection of climate policy in the name of fossil fuel reliance reflects the growing intensity of this contest. Pro-coal political forces gain most traction where they are most threatened, in high-income coal-producing countries such as in the US, Canada and Australia, as well as in the EU. In newly industrialising contexts with lower emissions targets, such as in India, coal is challenged by new low-cost renewable energy, and by immediate health imperatives.

  • 8 - Conclusion

  • James Goodman, University of Technology Sydney, Linda Connor, University of Sydney, Devleena Ghosh, University of Technology Sydney, Kanchi Kohli, Jonathan Paul Marshall, University of Technology Sydney, Manju Menon, Katja Mueller, Martin Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg, Germany, Tom Morton, University of Technology Sydney, Rebecca Pearse, University of Sydney, Stuart Rosewarne, University of Sydney
  • Book:
    Beyond the Coal Rush
    Published online:
    06 November 2020
    Print publication:
    26 November 2020, pp 215-234

  • Summary

    Chapter 8 develops a series of comparative themes from the experience of coal and climate change in India, Australia and Germany. In each country, we find that coal’s legitimacy crisis has created sharp contradictions in wider society, as well as within state institutions, and that local contests over new mines are rapidly undermining the social value of coal. Coal’s value to ‘development’ reflects its cultural narration as a valuable commodity and source of energy and in concluding we chart the way these narratives are contested, and are changing. In particular the chapter shows how anti-coal groups have gained strategic traction in the context of growing contradictions in national climate and energy policy. In this we return to the book’s initial provocation, expressed in the coal conundrum of increased coal extraction coupled with climate instability, arguing the conundrum is on the way to being resolved, for a post-coal future.

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