CONTRADICTIONS OF ENERGY: MARKETS, STATES, AND THE STRUGGLE OVER TRANSITION

By examining the historical trajectories of energy governance, current forms of state planning, and emerging projects of socialization and energy democracy, the conference addresses these central questions: Who has historically planned and steered energy systems, and how has this changed over time?Who is steering them today? What material and institutional barriers obstruct transformative energy planning, and how might they be contested? How must energy systems be reorganized to enable an emancipatory social and ecological transition? And what would it mean to socialize energy?