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ANTIPODE
Volume 49, Issue 3, Pages 557-576Publisher
WILEY
DOI: 10.1111/anti.12289
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energy; the state; activism; the commons; urban politics; energy transition
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Social movements in struggle around energy are currently developing an imaginary of energy democracy to signify the emancipatory energy transitions they desire. Deploying a scholar-activist perspective, this paper contributes to debates around the concretisation of the energy democracy imaginary by exploring the relationship of energy democracy movements to the state. To do so, I focus on the experiences of the Berliner Energietisch campaign, which in 2013 forced (and lost) a referendum aiming to extendand democratisethe local state's role in Berlin's energy governance. Drawing on relational theories of the state, I argue that it is productive to read Berliner Energietisch as enacting an energy politics in-against-and-beyond the state. In making this argument, I draw out implications for theoretical and strategic debates around the commons and the state.
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