Citizen or consumer? Reconsidering energy citizenship

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dc.contributor.authorLennon, Breffní
dc.contributor.authorDunphy, Niall P.
dc.contributor.authorGaffney, Christine
dc.contributor.authorRevez, Alexandra
dc.contributor.authorMullally, Gerard
dc.contributor.authorO'Connor, Paul
dc.contributor.funderHorizon 2020en
dc.date.accessioned2019-11-18T15:36:20Z
dc.date.available2019-11-18T15:36:20Z
dc.date.issued2019-10-18
dc.date.updated2019-11-18T15:28:40Z
dc.description.abstractThe transition to more sustainable energy systems has set about redefining the social roles and responsibilities of citizens. Implicit in this are expectations around participation, though the precise contours of what this might mean remain open. Debates around the energy transition have been skewed towards a normative construct of what it means to be a ‘good citizen’, the parameters for which are shaped by predetermined visions of statist and/or market-driven determinations of the energy systems of the future. This article argues that concepts such as ‘energy citizen’ are co-opted to reflect popular neoliberal discourses, and ignore crucial questions of unequal agency and access to resources. Paradoxically, official discourses that push responsibility for the energy transition onto the ‘citizen-as-consumer’ effectively remove agency from citizens, leaving them largely disconnected and disempowered. Consequently, energy citizenship needs to be reconceptualised to incorporate more collective and inclusive contexts for action. Considering how much energy consumption occurs in (traditionally female) domestic spheres, do conventional notions of citizenship (especially with regards to its associated rights and duties) need to be recalibrated in order for the concept to be usefully applied to the energy transition?en
dc.description.statusPeer revieweden
dc.description.versionAccepted Versionen
dc.format.mimetypeapplication/pdfen
dc.identifier.citationLennon, B., Dunphy, N., Gaffney, C., Revez, A., Mullally, G. and O’Connor, P. (2019) 'Citizen or consumer? Reconsidering energy citizenship', Journal of Environmental Policy & Planning, doi: 10.1080/1523908X.2019.1680277en
dc.identifier.doi10.1080/1523908X.2019.1680277en
dc.identifier.endpage14en
dc.identifier.issn1523-908X
dc.identifier.journaltitleJournal of Environmental Policy & Planningen
dc.identifier.startpage1en
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10468/9025
dc.language.isoenen
dc.publisherTaylor & Francisen
dc.relation.projectinfo:eu-repo/grantAgreement/EC/H2020::RIA/657998/EU/Energy System Transition Through Stakeholder Activation, Education and Skills Development/ENTRUSTen
dc.relation.urihttps://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/1523908X.2019.1680277
dc.rights© 2019 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. This is an Accepted Manuscript of an article published by Taylor & Francis in Journal of Environmental Policy & Planning on 18 Oct 2019, available online: http://www.tandfonline.com/10.1080/1523908X.2019.1680277en
dc.subjectEnergy citizenen
dc.subjectConsumeren
dc.subjectEnergy transitionen
dc.subjectCitizenshipen
dc.subjectDiscourseen
dc.subjectAgencyen
dc.titleCitizen or consumer? Reconsidering energy citizenshipen
dc.typeArticle (peer-reviewed)en
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