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A Postcolonial Critique of Community Energy: Searching for Community as Solidarity in India and Scotland

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/anti.12687?af=R Abstract

Bertie Russell's 2019 Antipode paper documents the emergence of a "new municipalist" movement, which approaches the city as a strategic entry point for a radically democratic politics. Given this movement's aspirations towards the transformation of the municipal state, how might state theory inform research and practice on new municipalism going forward? This is the question with which Russell concludes his paper and the question taken up here. The paper focuses on municipalist initiative Barcelona En Com??'s endeavours towards the remunicipalisation of energy, and the ways in which the radical vision underpinning this has been frustrated. Putting these experiences into conversation with the theoretical work of Gill Hart, I develop an "open dialectical" account of the state, which understands the processes that constitute the state as articulated through the contingent mediations of "prosaic" practices. This state theory, I argue, sheds new light on the possibilities and frustrations facing new municipalist movements.

Resumen

El art??culo de Antipode de Bertie Russell 2019 document?? el surgimiento de un "nuevo movimiento municipalista". Este movimiento se acerca a la ciudad como un punto de entrada estrat?gico para una pol??tica radicalmente democr??tica. Dadas las aspiraciones de este movimiento hacia la transformaci??n del estado municipal, ¿c??mo podr??an las teor??as del estado informar la investigaci??n y la pr??ctica en torno al nuevo municipalismo en el futuro? Esta es la pregunta con la que Russell concluye su art??culo y la pregunta que aqu?? se aborda. El art??culo se centra en los esfuerzos de la iniciativa municipalista Barcelona En Com?? hacia la remunicipalizaci??n de la energ??a, y las formas en que se ha frustrado la visi??n radical que la sustenta. Poniendo estas experiencias en conversaci??n con el trabajo te??rico de Gill Hart, desarrollo un relato "dial?ctico abierto" del estado. Esta teor??a entiende los procesos que constituyen al estado como articulados a trav?s de las mediaciones contingentes de pr??cticas "prosaicas". Esta teor??a del estado, sostengo, arroja nueva luz sobre las posibilidades y frustraciones que enfrentan los nuevos movimientos municipalistas.

» Author: 2> <p>Community renewable energy (CRE) represents a growing empirical and academic turn towards community"?based sustainability and climate change interventions. This paper brings together postcolonial theory and CRE for the first time to outline

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