Deadline: 12/1/22
Contact: Matt Hooley, Clemson University
Email: mhooley@clemson.edu

Panel proposed at the 2023 ASLE + AESS Conference: “Reclaiming the Commons”

July 9-12, 2023 in Portland, Oregon

This roundtable examines the relations between energy, justice, and the commons as an approach to addressing climate emergency, envisioning alternative energy futures and modes of energy transition, and focusing on the conditions and needs of communities who are disproportionately impacted by environmental harms. While the idea of “energy justice” has been taken up most centrally in governmental frameworks and public policy initiatives, this roundtable considers how, and if it is possible, to approach issues of energy decolonization, degrowth, and decarbonization through a focus on the commons and other models of community and solidarity developed in Indigenous, Black studies, and feminist frameworks. This roundtable explores how modes of activist praxis, cultural representation, and creative practices reflect on energy injustice and develop alternative energy imaginaries. ​​It will also ask how a focus on energy justice might refigure theories of cultural and artistic commons in and beyond the environmental humanities. Finally, the roundtable will investigate how abolitionist and decolonial critiques of the commons might inspire new ways to organize toward energy justice.

This roundtable is being organized in collaboration with Kristin George-Bagdanov and Margaret Ronda, and we are interested brief papers that consider:

*Cultures of energy transition
*Indigenous energy cultures and practices
*Energy and the undercommons
*Genres of energy justice
*Decarbonizing the commons
*Energy poetics
*Gender and reproductive commons
*Food and energy sovereignty

Please send a short expression of interest and potential roundtable contribution title or description to Matt Hooley (mhooley@clemson.edu) by December 1st, 2022.

Posted on October 16, 2022