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Description
The Covid-19 pandemic is exacerbating concerns about inequalities and life-threatening socio-ecological relationships, leading researchers to reconsider the meaning of justice. In general, this context forces us to take the concept of uncertainty as crucial: this dimension proves to be decisive both in relation to decision-making processes (Scoones, Stirling, 2020) and to the processes of construction of knowledge (Pellizzoni, 2021; Lakoff, 2017). The field of energy can be inquired as an exemplary sector in which both dimensions can be addressed. Energy raises fundamental questions of justice. It needs to be conceived as service, a fundamental part of everyday life, which should not be managed according to economic rationalities, in order to grant all citizens access to it (Collective Foundational Economy 2018). At the same time, it is structured as a complex infrastructure, that means it works through social and symbolic processes (Anand et al, 2018). Moreover, a just transition raises issues at the core of the debates about Anthropocene and it should conceive democratic control over the spatial distribution of energy infrastructures across the (un)opportunities related to them. What does it mean to rethink citizenship, emphasizing its performative nature (Isin, 2017), in relation to the themes of energy justice? What role do local communities, forms of self-organization play in reorganizing the relationship between citizens and energy infrastructures? The paper aims at providing a theoretical framework, based on a transdisciplinary exploration of these questions, intertwining it with the Green Deal policies, the mission 100 Climate Neutral Cities and the climate city contracts.
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