We are pleased to announce that the RSA Board have agreed funding for the RSA Research Network on Uneven and Combined Transitions: Energy, Justice and the Global South (UCT-EJGS).
The network aims to enrich just transitions scholarship by linking climate justice to questions of political economy, power, and global inequality, pushing the field toward more transformative and systemic understandings of what a just transition entails and how it might be achieved.
UCT-EJGS is an international research network supported by the Regional Studies Association (RSA). It brings together academics from the United Kingdom, South Africa, Uzbekistan and Papua New Guinea to mobilise a global community of scholars working around the concept of uneven and combined energy transitions.
Over a three-year period, network organisers will host a regular webinar series, two special sessions at the RSA annual conference, and online and in-person writing workshops. This work will culminate towards the end of the three years in the publication of a special issue and edited volume that brings together a range of empirical case studies focused on energy UCTs at different analytical levels from across the Global South.
Find out more about the UCT-EJGS Research Network and their future events here.
The organisers said
“We are thrilled to have received this generous funding from the RSA, which we hope will help us to mobilise, nurture and support a global research network and community of scholars working around the concept of uneven and combined energy transitions. Through the network, we hope to advance a new body of cutting edge research to challenge overly normative, technocratic and/or universalist models of energy transition and instead stress the need for historically grounded, regionally sensitive understandings. We also hope to illuminate how local struggles for justice are entangled within global patterns of accumulation, dependency and uneven ecological burdens. In doing so, we hope the new network will enrich just transitions scholarship by linking climate justice to questions of political economy, power, and global inequality, pushing the field toward more transformative and systemic understandings of what a just transition entails and how it might be achieved”
The RSA is looking forward to working with the network’s community and the organisers, Ben Radley (University of Bath, UK), Bahtiyor Eshchanov (New Uzbekistan University, Uzbekistan), Chalapan Kaluwin (University of Natural Resources and Environment, Papua New Guinea), Lorena Lombardozzi (SOAS University, UK), Susan Newman (Open University, UK) and Sam Ashman (University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa)
Connect with the organisers on BlueSky: https://bsky.app/profile/uneventransitions.bsky.social