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The Politics of Energy Security
Critical Security Studies, New Materialism and Governmentality
Routledge Explorations in Energy Studies Series
Author: Kester Johannes
Language: EnglishSubjects for The Politics of Energy Security:
Keywords
Energy Security; Energy Systems; Johannes Kester; Securitization Theory; Energy Security Literature; energy policy; Brittle Star; Critical Security Studies; energy politics; Performative Reading; scarcity; Energy Trilemma; sociotechnical energy systems; Define Energy Security; Energy Resources; Energy Poverty; Energy Security Concerns; Energy Sources; Groningen Gas Field; Analyse Energy Security; Natural Gas Extraction; Agential Cut; Referent Object; Study Energy Security; Undesirable Futures; Tightrope Walker; CSS Literature; Securitizing Move; Occupy Wall Street; Postpositivist Scholars
Publication date: 03-2020
Support: Print on demand
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Energy security is known for its ?slippery? nature and subsequent broad range of definitions. Instead of another attempt to grasp its essence, this book offers a critical reflection that problematizes the use of energy security itself.
After a short historical and methodological analysis of the proliferation of energy security, The Politics of Energy Security unpacks three social practices that drive energy security. These include an analysis of the logics of security, a study of the relation between the materiality of sociotechnical (energy) systems and the knowledge people have over such systems, and a reflection on the power and politics behind (energy) security. Each of these are discussed and ultimately illustrated in the last chapter to show how energy security works, how it is shaped and what role it plays within political processes.
Based on a novel performative reading of energy security with its focus on ontological politics and an in-depth look at the often implicitly accepted social practices that determine how people shape and are shaped by energy security, this book will be of great interest to students and scholars of energy security and policy, political theory, international relations, critical security studies, and environmental studies more broadly.
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Acknowledgements
1 Introduction
2 The Historic Proliferation of Energy Security
3 Analysing Energy Security
4 Securing Undesired (Energy) Futures
5 The Materialization of Energy Security
6 Governing with and through Energy Security
7 Energy Security Politics in the Dutch Natural Gas Debate
8 Conclusion: Performativity, Disclosure and the Politics of Energy Security
Johannes Kester is a Post-Doctoral Researcher at the University of Aarhus, Denmark.