Course Recording:
Course Description:
In this class we enter the contentious field of political debate on energy transitions. We will present why the transition towards clean energy systems is not merely technical. We discuss the tension between the urgency to move away from fossil fuels in order to mitigate climate change and claims of legitimacy and justice in energy transitions, both globally and in case studies.
Recommended Readings:
IRENA (2021): World energy transitions outlook: 1.5º C Pathway. Available at: <https://irena.org/publications/2021/March/World-Energy-Transitions-Outlook>
KUMAR, Ankit; Auke Pols and Johanna Höffken (2021): Urgency vs Justice: a politics of energy transitions in the age of the Anthropocene. In: Ankit Kumar, Auke Pols and Johanna Höffken (eds.) Dilemmas of energy transitions in the Global South: balancing urgency and justice, Routledge. Available at <https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/oa-edit/10.4324/9780367486457/dilemmas-energy-transitions-global-south-ankit-kumar-johanna-h%C3%B6ffken-auke-pols>
JASANOFF, Sheila (2018): Just transitions: A humble approach to global energy futures. Energy Research & Social Science, v. 35, p. 11-14. Available at: <https://shiftingground.ca/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/12-Jasanoff.pdf>
MEADOWCROFT, James (2009): What about the politics? Sustainable development, transition management, and long term energy transitions. Policy Sciences, v. 42, p. 323-340, Available at <https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11077-009-9097-z>
Instructor:
Larissa Basso <https://www.su.se/english/profiles/lade5584-1.418852> is a lecturer at Stockholm University and a Research Fellow of the Earth Systems Governance project (https://www.earthsystemgovernance.org/). Her research focuses on politics of energy transitions, especially in emerging economies, but she also works with topics of international and comparative environmental law, comparative environmental politics and on the role of Brazil in global environmental and climate governance. She has taught courses on development and sustainability in Latin America, contemporary politics, global political economy and international law.