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Where are low-carbon places made? Conceptualising and studying infrastructure junctions and the power geometries of low-carbon place-making

Holmes, Torik; De Laurentis, Carla; Windemer, Rebecca

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Torik Holmes

Carla De Laurentis



Abstract

The making of low-carbon places is crucial for achieving decarbonisation, but where are such places made? In extending and combining existing research and ideas, the authors take electricity networks as their starting point to study what they term three ‘infrastructure junctions’, which are places where various practices and processes, with material, spatial, and temporal features, collide and combine in ways that shape the power geometries of low-carbon place-making. The authors find that the junctions reveal the conflictual and consensual dimensions of low-carbon transitions and how these features shape and are shaped by the ordering and management of networked hardware. Some features are shared, such as an overarching faith in large-scale provision and unabated demand, whereas others are more unique and rooted in specific contextual realities. Such insights support attempts to assess, steer, and accelerate low-carbon place-making as a relational process that is manifest and mediated through infrastructure. The authors conclude that infrastructure junctions offer ripe grounds to examine where, how, when, and for whom low-carbon places are in the making.

Journal Article Type Article
Acceptance Date Apr 20, 2023
Online Publication Date Jun 6, 2023
Publication Date 2023
Deposit Date Jun 8, 2023
Publicly Available Date Aug 17, 2023
Journal Norsk Geografisk Tidsskrift - Norwegian Journal of Geography
Print ISSN 0029-1951
Electronic ISSN 1502-5292
Publisher Taylor & Francis (Routledge)
Peer Reviewed Peer Reviewed
Volume 77
Issue 3
Pages 143-156
DOI https://doi.org/10.1080/00291951.2023.2206407
Keywords low-carbon transitions, infrastructure junctions, low-carbon place-making, power geometries
Public URL https://uwe-repository.worktribe.com/output/10848805
Publisher URL https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/00291951.2023.2206407
Additional Information Peer Review Statement: The publishing and review policy for this title is described in its Aims & Scope.; Aim & Scope: http://www.tandfonline.com/action/journalInformation?show=aimsScope&journalCode=sgeo20; Received: 2022-04-15; Accepted: 2023-04-20; Published: 2023-06-06

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