Repositioning energy geographies in a time of crisis: Arguments from a subdiscipline on the margins of geography

While a range of rapidly proliferating crises shaped by anthropogenic climate change is profound and generating a raft of spatially-centred energy research, energy geographies does not occupy a central position within emergent climate scholarship, nor within broader disciplinary confines of human geography. The centrality of energy is undeniable, and even in light of the considerable history of scholarship combined with the fundamentally spatial nature of energy systems and transitions, energy geographies endure an occluded existence subsumed. This paper offers a critique of the subdiscipline's ongoing marginality while articulating its salience before offering strategies to help advance the repositioning of energy geographies from the periphery towards a more central position.

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Dialogues in Human Geography
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2025-02-03
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https://doi.org/10.1177/20438206251316025
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10
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Social Acceptance of Renewable Energy
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42.02

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Repositioning energy geographies in a time of crisis: Arguments from a subdiscipline on the margins of geography

Ryan Stock, Ankit Kumar, Siddharth Sareen, Thomas Ptak
10 citations
Dialogues in Human Geography
Social Acceptance of Renewable Energy
42.02
article

Repositioning energy geographies in a time of crisis: Arguments from a subdiscipline on the margins of geography

Ryan Stock, Ankit Kumar, Siddharth Sareen, Thomas Ptak
article en
10 citations

Abstract

While a range of rapidly proliferating crises shaped by anthropogenic climate change is profound and generating a raft of spatially-centred energy research, energy geographies does not occupy a central position within emergent climate scholarship, nor within broader disciplinary confines of human geography. The centrality of energy is undeniable, and even in light of the considerable history of scholarship combined with the fundamentally spatial nature of energy systems and transitions, energy geographies endure an occluded existence subsumed. This paper offers a critique of the subdiscipline's ongoing marginality while articulating its salience before offering strategies to help advance the repositioning of energy geographies from the periphery towards a more central position.

Dialogues in Human Geography
Texas State University (US), Northern Michigan University (US), Fridtjof Nansen Institute (NO), University of Sheffield (GB)
Norges Forskningsråd
Openalex Percentile: Top 0%
Social Acceptance of Renewable Energy
42.02
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Repositioning energy geographies in a time of crisis: Arguments from a subdiscipline on the margins of geography — Ryan Stock, Ankit Kumar, et al. · Dialogues in Human Geography (2025) | TGRS Research Map | TGRS