TY - JOUR
T1 - Pluralizing energy justice
T2 - Incorporating feminist, anti-racist, Indigenous, and postcolonial perspectives
AU - Sovacool, Benjamin K.
AU - Bell, Shannon Elizabeth
AU - Daggett, Cara
AU - Labuski, Christine
AU - Lennon, Myles
AU - Naylor, Lindsay
AU - Klinger, Julie
AU - Leonard, Kelsey
AU - Firestone, Jeremy
PY - 2023/3
Y1 - 2023/3
N2 - Justice represents not only a moral obligation but can enhance the legitimacy and acceptance of a rapid push toward global decarbonization. Innovations in technology, even those geared toward sustainability, can both reinforce and introduce new inequalities and disparities across populations, while also perpetuating environmental degradation. The concept of energy justice has emerged as a conceptual, methodological, and empirical tool to both highlight and remediate many of these concerns, with an emphasis on what is morally just or right. But much of this body of scholarship fails to adequately account for gender, Indigeneity, race, and other intersecting inequalities. Feminist, Indigenous, anti-racist and postcolonial approaches to justice offer an important remedy to theories of justice with underlying colonial, liberalist, majoritarian, utilitarian, or masculinist assumptions. Our Perspective is grounded in these four core, but often misperceived or even radical, approaches to justice. We first provide an overview of each of these approaches and then synthesize them into a set of themes, principles, and questions, which can guide future energy justice research and practice.
AB - Justice represents not only a moral obligation but can enhance the legitimacy and acceptance of a rapid push toward global decarbonization. Innovations in technology, even those geared toward sustainability, can both reinforce and introduce new inequalities and disparities across populations, while also perpetuating environmental degradation. The concept of energy justice has emerged as a conceptual, methodological, and empirical tool to both highlight and remediate many of these concerns, with an emphasis on what is morally just or right. But much of this body of scholarship fails to adequately account for gender, Indigeneity, race, and other intersecting inequalities. Feminist, Indigenous, anti-racist and postcolonial approaches to justice offer an important remedy to theories of justice with underlying colonial, liberalist, majoritarian, utilitarian, or masculinist assumptions. Our Perspective is grounded in these four core, but often misperceived or even radical, approaches to justice. We first provide an overview of each of these approaches and then synthesize them into a set of themes, principles, and questions, which can guide future energy justice research and practice.
KW - Anti-colonialism
KW - Anti-racism
KW - Climate justice
KW - Decolonial
KW - Energy justice
KW - Environmental justice
KW - Feminism
KW - Indigenist
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85148033376&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1016/j.erss.2023.102996
DO - 10.1016/j.erss.2023.102996
M3 - Journal article
AN - SCOPUS:85148033376
SN - 2214-6296
VL - 97
JO - Energy Research and Social Science
JF - Energy Research and Social Science
M1 - 102996
ER -