https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/anti.12683?af=R Abstract

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 fundamental tensions in the conceptualisation and application of the idea of community. The understanding of community within the CRE discourse is largely: (1) location"?based; and/or (2) a community of choice that is consciously opted into. Driven by postcolonial theory, this paper counterpoises both as a form of community as contract against an idea of community as solidarity. Its central thesis is that actually existing community, contrary to how the bulk of CRE literature commonly understands it, is a combination of bonds of solidarity and emergent purposes. The paper conceptualises community as fluid bonds of solidarity that align and realign differently around different purposes.

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L'?nergie renouvelable communautaire (CRE) repr?sente de plus en plus un virage empirique et acad?mique en direction d'interventions communautaires de d?veloppement durable et de lutte contre le changement climatique. Cet article fait dialoguer pour la premi??re fois la th?orie postcoloniale et l'approche CRE afin de souligner les tensions fondamentales dans la conceptualisation et l'application de l'id?e de communaut?. La compr?hension de la communaut? dans le discours de la CRE est largement bas?e sur: (1) le local, le lieu, ou la localisation; et / ou (2) une communaut? de choix qui est d?lib?r?ment choisie. Inspir? par la th?orie postcoloniale, cet article s'oppose ?? ces deux acceptations de la communaut? comme contrat pour proposer l'id?e de communaut? comme solidarit?. La th??se centrale de l'article est que contrairement au sens donn? la plupart du temps par la litt?rature traitant de la CRE, la communaut? r?ellement existante est une combinaison de liens de solidarit? et de finalit?s ?mergentes. L'article conceptualise la communaut? comme des liens fluides de solidarit? qui s'alignent et se r?alignent diff?remment autour de diff?rents objectifs.

» Author: 2> <p>This paper can be read as a film sequence, as each scene is based on the narration of a different everyday encounter in the city. The aim of the paper is to start a discussion on the multiple ways borders proliferate in the urban: not only

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