Home > Research > Publications & Outputs > Whose energy use matters?

Research

Links

Text available via DOI:

View graph of relations

Whose energy use matters?: Reflections on energy poverty and decolonisation

Research output: Contribution to Journal/Magazine › Journal article › peer-review

Published

Standard

Whose energy use matters? Reflections on energy poverty and decolonisation. / Walker, Gordon.
In: People, Place and Policy Online, Vol. 16, No. 1, 28.01.2022, p. 6-12.

Research output: Contribution to Journal/Magazine › Journal article › peer-review

Harvard

Walker, G 2022, 'Whose energy use matters? Reflections on energy poverty and decolonisation', People, Place and Policy Online, vol. 16, no. 1, pp. 6-12. https://doi.org/10.3351/ppp.2022.3833594884

APA

Walker, G. (2022). Whose energy use matters? Reflections on energy poverty and decolonisation. People, Place and Policy Online, 16(1), 6-12. https://doi.org/10.3351/ppp.2022.3833594884

Vancouver

Walker G. Whose energy use matters? Reflections on energy poverty and decolonisation. People, Place and Policy Online. 2022 Jan 28;16(1):6-12. doi: 10.3351/ppp.2022.3833594884

Author

Walker, Gordon. / Whose energy use matters? Reflections on energy poverty and decolonisation. In: People, Place and Policy Online. 2022 ; Vol. 16, No. 1. pp. 6-12.

Bibtex

@article{9788c1402d2a463889a0d2fbf09e0d2b,
title = "Whose energy use matters?: Reflections on energy poverty and decolonisation",
abstract = "Calls for decolonisation have over recent years spread across academic institutions, disciplines and fields of research. Taking up a decolonisation agenda involves not only making clear the colonial foundation of contemporary patterns of inequality, injustice and discrimination, but also asking searching questions about how contemporary knowledge that is routinely produced, shared and made use of is embedded in colonial histories and worldviews. Much that is implicit in assumptions about how things are known, what matters and how change is to be pursued is potentially opened up to critique; with links to longer standing calls for the valuing of indigenous/local knowledge and for challenging universal (western) claims of truth and meaning (Jansen, 2019). Decolonisation implies institutional critique, but also challenging our own assumptions and practice, reflecting on how these have been shaped by the history of ideas that have come to dominate particular fields of inquiry.",
author = "Gordon Walker",
year = "2022",
month = jan,
day = "28",
doi = "10.3351/ppp.2022.3833594884",
language = "English",
volume = "16",
pages = "6--12",
journal = "People, Place and Policy Online",
issn = "1753-8041",
publisher = "Sheffield Hallam University",
number = "1",

}

RIS

TY - JOUR

T1 - Whose energy use matters?

T2 - Reflections on energy poverty and decolonisation

AU - Walker, Gordon

PY - 2022/1/28

Y1 - 2022/1/28

N2 - Calls for decolonisation have over recent years spread across academic institutions, disciplines and fields of research. Taking up a decolonisation agenda involves not only making clear the colonial foundation of contemporary patterns of inequality, injustice and discrimination, but also asking searching questions about how contemporary knowledge that is routinely produced, shared and made use of is embedded in colonial histories and worldviews. Much that is implicit in assumptions about how things are known, what matters and how change is to be pursued is potentially opened up to critique; with links to longer standing calls for the valuing of indigenous/local knowledge and for challenging universal (western) claims of truth and meaning (Jansen, 2019). Decolonisation implies institutional critique, but also challenging our own assumptions and practice, reflecting on how these have been shaped by the history of ideas that have come to dominate particular fields of inquiry.

AB - Calls for decolonisation have over recent years spread across academic institutions, disciplines and fields of research. Taking up a decolonisation agenda involves not only making clear the colonial foundation of contemporary patterns of inequality, injustice and discrimination, but also asking searching questions about how contemporary knowledge that is routinely produced, shared and made use of is embedded in colonial histories and worldviews. Much that is implicit in assumptions about how things are known, what matters and how change is to be pursued is potentially opened up to critique; with links to longer standing calls for the valuing of indigenous/local knowledge and for challenging universal (western) claims of truth and meaning (Jansen, 2019). Decolonisation implies institutional critique, but also challenging our own assumptions and practice, reflecting on how these have been shaped by the history of ideas that have come to dominate particular fields of inquiry.

U2 - 10.3351/ppp.2022.3833594884

DO - 10.3351/ppp.2022.3833594884

M3 - Journal article

VL - 16

SP - 6

EP - 12

JO - People, Place and Policy Online

JF - People, Place and Policy Online

SN - 1753-8041

IS - 1

ER -