Prof. Stacey Balkan's & After Oil Collective's Solarities: Seeking Energy Justice available for Preorder
Professor Stacey Balkan's monograph, co-authored with the After Oil Collective, is now available for pre-order. According to Balkan, the text "represents the work of the collective during our four-day workshop in Montreal in 2019 when we convened to discuss the possibility of not merely a transition away from fossil fuels, but from the oppressive political structures of petrocapitalism."
According to University of Minnesota Press:
A collective engages and mirrors the critical need for energy justice and transformation.
Solarities considers the possibilities of organizing societies and economies around solar energy, and the challenges of a just and equitable transition away from fossil fuels. Far from presenting solarity as a utopian solution to the climate crisis, it critically examines the ambiguous potentials of solarities: plural, situated, and often contradictory.
Here, a diverse collective of activists, scholars, and practitioners critically engage a wide range of relationships and orientations to the sun. They consider the material and infrastructural dimensions of solar power, the decolonial and feminist promises of decentralized energy, solarian relations with more-than-human kin, and the problem of oppressive and weaponized solarities. Solarities imagines—and demands— possibilities for energy justice in this transition.
Contributors to Solarity: Seeking Energy Justice include academics, activists, and artists: Amanda Boetzkes; Amelia Moore; Ashley Dawson; Ayesha Vemuri; Bob Johnson; Brent Ryan Bellamy; Burç Köstem; Caleb Wellum; Claire Ravenscroft; Cymene Howe; Darin Barney; Derek Gladwin; Dominic Boyer; Elizabeth Miller; Eva-Lynn Jagoe; Gretchen Bakke; Heather Davis; Imre Szeman; Jeff Diamanti; Jenni Matchett; Jennifer Wenzel; Joel Auerbach; Jordan Kinder; Josefin Wangel; Laurence Miall; Louis Beaumier; Mark Simpson; Mette M. High; Mirra-Margarita Ianeva; Nandita Badami; Nicole Starosielski; Rachel Webb Jekanowski; Rafico Ruiz; Rhys Williams; Sheena Wilson; Shirley Roburn; Simon Orpana; Stacey Balkan; Yuriko Furuhata.
