Energy Justice

Abstract

This chapter identifies how energy has been conceptualised as a good to be produced, distributed and consumed, illustrating close theoretical engagement with the forms of justice. As Sidortsov and McCauley note, given the tradition’s focus on energy systems as a whole, emerging contributions to this scholarship stress the importance of, and need for, recognitional and restorative approaches to justice. In particular, the authors identify a need for those affected by changes in energy systems to be heard and legitimised participants in decision-making regarding these infrastructural challenges. In addition, the authors highlight the connectivity and fluidity of this still novel body of justice scholarship, illustrating its overlapping, yet unique, foundations regarding energy as a primary object of justice analyses.