Energy Communication: Theory and Praxis Towards a Sustainable Energy Future

Brian Cozen; Danielle Endres; Tarla Rai Peterson; Cristi Horton; Joshua T Barnett

doi:10.1080/17524032.2017.1398176

Energy Communication: Theory and Praxis Towards a Sustainable Energy Future

Brian Cozen, Danielle Endres, Tarla Rai Peterson, Cristi Horton, Joshua T Barnett

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Abstract

This essay comments and expands upon an emerging area of research, energy communication, that shares with environmental communication the fraught commitment to simultaneously study communication as an ordinary yet potentially transformative practice, and a strategic endeavour to catalyse change. We begin by defining and situating energy communication within ongoing work on the discursive dimensions of energy extraction, production, distribution, and consumption. We then offer three generative directions for future research related to energy transitions as communicative processes: analysing campaigns’ strategic efforts, critically theorizing energy’s transnational power dynamics, and theorizing the energy democracy movement.

Original language	English (US)
Pages (from-to)	289-294
Number of pages	6
Journal	Environmental Communication
Volume	12
Issue number	3
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1080/17524032.2017.1398176
State	Published - Apr 3 2018
Externally published	Yes

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This work was supported by the National Science Foundation STS Division [grant number SES 1329563] and National Science Foundation STS Division [grant number SES 1550227].

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© 2017 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group.

Keywords

Activism
climate change
energy communication
energy democracy
just transitions

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