Open AccessCan Renewable Energy Artifacts have a Global Politics? Towards a Translocal Imaginary of Energy Democracy
Author(s) -
Sujatha Raman
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
engaging science, technology, and society
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2413-8053
DOI - 10.17351/ests2021.967
Subject(s) - vision , the imaginary , democracy , politics , renewable energy , field (mathematics) , energy (signal processing) , sociology , social science , political science , media studies , environmental ethics , management , engineering , law , economics , philosophy , electrical engineering , psychoanalysis , psychology , anthropology , statistics , mathematics , pure mathematics
In the 2020 Prague Virtual Conference of the Society for Social Studies of Science (4S), Langdon Winner was awarded the society’s John D. Bernal Prize jointly with Sharon Traweek. The Bernal Prize is awarded annually to individuals who have made distinguished contributions to the field of STS. Prize recipients include founders of the field of STS, along with outstanding scholars who have devoted their careers to the understanding of the social dimensions of science and technology. This response to Winner’s Bernal lecture considers how visions of energy democracy speak back to decarbonisation imperatives grounded in industrial-scale renewable energy technologies, and asks if these arguments might be further trans-nationalised.