State, community and the negotiated construction of energy markets: Community energy policy in England

EADSON, William and FODEN, M. (0201). State, community and the negotiated construction of energy markets: Community energy policy in England. Geoforum, 100, 21-31.

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Abstract

This article provides fresh insight on the political construction of markets through empirical analysis of community energy in the UK. It considers the diverse actors, understandings, processes and technologies enrolled in market creation, stabilisation and correction, while emphasising how negotiation, mediation and translation are pervasive throughout. Our starting point is an exploration of the role of the state in managing processes of socially embedding and disembedding markets, and how tensions between ideological commitments to deregulation and the social necessity of intervention are addressed by governing at a distance, in this example through the conveniently malleable notion of ‘community’. We draw attention in particular to the variegated manifestations of these processes and the plurality of actors and logics operating within the ‘black box’ of the state, as well as within and between markets and civil society. We reveal how negotiation between competing logics – the impulse to marketise and its diverse others – can be observed across different forms of organisation and action. We argue that such deliberations can be seen as fractal patterns throughout contemporary socioeconomic arrangements, emphasising how the Polanyian concept of the ‘double movement’ can be deepened through analysis of the heterogeneous associations and logics at work in ‘actually existing’ instituted action, understanding political processes as ontologically performative. Empirical material is drawn from across four research projects, each focusing on different aspects of the UK government's Community Energy Strategy, exploring the varying ways marketisation plays out through different governmental programmes.

Item Type: Article
Uncontrolled Keywords: MD Multidisciplinary; Geography
Identification Number: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geoforum.2019.02.006
Page Range: 21-31
SWORD Depositor: Symplectic Elements
Depositing User: Symplectic Elements
Date Deposited: 20 Feb 2019 11:13
Last Modified: 18 Mar 2021 02:52
URI: https://shura.shu.ac.uk/id/eprint/24079

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