Conceptualizing Germany’s Energy Transition
Institutions, Materiality, Power, Space
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Beschreibung
This is the first book to explore ways of conceptualizing Germany’s ongoing energy transition. Although widely acclaimed in policy and research circles worldwide, the Energiewende is poorly understood in terms of social science scholarship. There is an urgent need to delve beyond descriptive accounts of policy implementation and contestation in order to unpack the deeper issues at play in what has been termed a 'grand societal transformation.' The authors approach this in three ways: First, they select and characterize conceptual approaches suited to interpreting the reordering of institutional arrangements, socio-material configurations, power relations and spatial structures of energy systems in Germany and beyond. Second, they assess the value of these concepts in describing and explaining energy transitions, pinpointing their relative strengths and weaknesses and exploring areas of complementarity and incompatibility. Third, they illustrate how these concepts can be applied – individually and in combination – to enrich empirical research of Germany’s energy transition.
This is the first book to
explore ways of conceptualizing Germany’s ongoing energy transition. Although
widely acclaimed in policy and research circles worldwide, the Energiewende is poorly understood in
terms of social science scholarship. There is an urgent need to delve beyond
descriptive accounts of policy implementation and contestation in order to
unpack the deeper issues at play in what has been termed a 'grand societal
transformation.' The authors approach this in three ways: First, they select and
characterize conceptual approaches suited to interpreting the reordering of
institutional arrangements, socio-material configurations, power relations and
spatial structures of energy systems in Germany and beyond. Second, they assess the value of
these concepts in describing and explaining energy transitions, pinpointing their
relative strengths and weaknesses and exploring areas of complementarity and
incompatibility. Third, they illustrate how these concepts can be applied – individually and in
combination – to enrich empirical research of Germany’s energy transition.
Autor*in
Ludger Gailing
Themen in »Conceptualizing Germany’s Energy Transition«
Energiewende Energy transitions bioenergy regions depoliticizaation discursive insitutionalism energy efficiency energy infrastructure governmentality path dependency political geography remunicipalization waste-to-energy wind energy development