Ende Gelände: Anti-Kohle-Proteste in Deutschland

Sander, Hendrik

doi:10.1515/fjsb-2017-0004

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“…Even though the Kyoto Protocol came into effect at EU level in 2005 with the introduction of the European Union Emissions Trading System (EU ETS), current efforts to decarbonize the European energy system have proven to be insufficient (Leipprand and Flachsland 2018). In 2006, after an announcement of plans to construct new coal-fired plants, NGOs and civil society movements calling for the decarbonization of society started anti-coal campaigns and mounted occasional protests against coal and lignite-based energy production (Heinrich Böll-Foundation 2015;Sander 2017). This shows that although potential coal exnovation has long been debated in policy circles, unlike the anti-nuclear movement, the response from grassroots energy activists has come rather late.…”

Section: The Non-exnovation Of Coal and Lignite-based Energy Production In Germanymentioning

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Futurizing politics and the sustainability of real-world experiments: what role for innovation and exnovation in the German energy transition?

David

Groß

2019

Sustain Sci

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The German energy transition towards more sustainable forms of energy production has been characterized as a large-scale or real-world experiment. Whereas experiments are open-ended processes set up explicitly to allow (or even generate) surprises, by contrast sustainability implies the pursuit of clearly defined, normative ends. Whereas much of the literature on system transformation builds on the concept of innovation, our hypothesis is that focusing on the “natural” flipside of innovation—called here “exnovation,” i.e., departing from unsustainable pathways—should also be seen as a valuable conceptual strategy for coping with the tension between the unavoidable indeterminacy resulting from unknown risks and the necessary amendment and redefinition of goals and rules. In this paper the German energy transition (Energiewende) is used to exemplify the recursive processes of experimentation that make it possible to accommodate surprise, and, thus, to conceptualize the unavoidable tension between innovation and the maintenance of older, unsustainable structures.

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Section: The Non-exnovation Of Coal and Lignite-based Energy Production In Germanymentioning

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Futurizing politics and the sustainability of real-world experiments: what role for innovation and exnovation in the German energy transition?

David

Groß

2019

Sustain Sci

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“…Powerful points of intervention in this phase comprise divestment strategies or phase-out programs, as exemplified in the coal or nuclear industry (Renn and Marshall 2016;Ayling and Gunningham 2017;Johnstone and Hielscher 2017). The protests against the maintenance of coal infrastructure in Germany ('Ende Gelände'; German, for "end of terrain", a slogan signaling a blockade of any further land take of the open pit mine) have shown the politicizing potential that interventions into configurations dominated by economically powerful corporations (such as Germany's second-largest electricity provider, the RWE AG) can have (Sander 2017). In a conflict executed by the police, RWE has sought to assert its claim to the Hambach Forest, a small wooded area in western Germany hosting deposits of lignite.…”

Section: Phase 4: Maintenance and Follow-up Investmentmentioning

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The transformation of provisioning systems from an integrated perspective of social metabolism and political economy: a conceptual framework

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Energy, food, or mobility can be conceptualized as provisioning systems which are decisive to sustainability transformations in how they shape resource use and because of emissions resulting from them. To curb environmental pressures and improve societal well-being, fundamental changes to existing provisioning systems are necessary. In this article, we propose that provisioning systems be conceptualized as featuring integrated socio-metabolic and political-economic dimensions. In socio-metabolic terms, material stocks—buildings, infrastructures, and machines, for example—are key components of provisioning systems and transform flows of energy and materials into goods and services. In political-economic terms, provisioning systems are formed by actors, institutions, and capital. We loosely identify and closely analyze, from socio-metabolic and political-economic perspectives, five phases along which provisioning systems are shaped and in which specific opportunities for interventions exist. Relying mainly on examples from the fossil-fueled electricity system, we argue that an integrated conceptualization of provisioning systems can advance understanding of these systems in two essential ways: by (1) facilitating a more encompassing perspective on current forms of provisioning as relying on capitalist regulation and on material stocks and flows and by (2) embedding provisioning systems within their historical context, making it possible to conceive of more sustainable and just forms of provisioning under (radically) altered conditions.

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“…Zusätzlich zu ihrer Kernforderung eines schnellen Kohleausstiegs betont die Klimagerechtigkeitsbewegung stets weitere Gemeinwohlziele wie (globale) Gerechtigkeit, Vertiefung von Demokratie und ein grundsätzlich gewandeltes Verhältnis zur Natur. Mit der Aktionsform Ende Gelände , bei der mehrere tausend Menschen Tagebaue, Kohlebagger und/oder Kohlekraftwerke blockieren, gewann die Bewegung an Zulauf und öffentliche Aufmerksamkeit (Sander 2016 , S. 25 ff., 2017 ). Einen weiteren Schub erlebte die Klimagerechtigkeitsbewegung durch die rasante Entwicklung der Schulstreiks von Fridays for Future (FFF).…”

Section: Bestandsaufnahme Der Gemeinwohlkonflikte In Der Energiewendeunclassified

Energiekonflikte und Demokratiekrise. Eine radikaldemokratische Perspektive auf das Ringen um Gemeinwohlziele der Energiewende

Krüger

2021

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ZusammenfassungDer Klimawandel ist in öffentlichen Debatten (wieder) sehr präsent, spätestens seit den Protesten von Fridays for Future. Dies zeigte sich zuletzt in der Intensität der Kontroversen, in denen beispielsweise der Kohleausstieg auf gesamtgesellschaftlicher Ebene verhandelt wurde. Gleichzeitig nehmen lokale Konflikte um konkrete Energieprojekte zu. Die Virulenz der Energiekonflikte ist u. a. darauf zurückzuführen, dass sie oftmals Kristallisationspunkte für Auseinandersetzungen um die Anerkennung von bestimmten Interessen als legitime Gemeinwohlinteressen bilden. Diese Konflikte sind zunächst einmal eine Reaktion auf die Ausgestaltung der Energiewende und wirken auf diese zurück. Darüber hinaus stehen Energiekonflikte in einem wechselseitigen Wirkungsverhältnis mit der politischen Kultur. Sie sind Effekt und gleichzeitig Mitproduzent der in der Gesellschaft verhandelten Vorstellungen von Demokratie. Der vorliegende Artikel leistet einen zweifachen Beitrag zur Analyse der Gemeinwohlkonflikte in der Energiewende in Deutschland. Erstens werden empirische Ergebnisse der Energiewendeforschung im Hinblick auf die Auseinandersetzungen um die Definition und Priorisierung von Gemeinwohlzielen der Energiewende interpretiert. Ein zentraler Befund lautet, dass sich in den Energiekonflikten Phänomene einer Demokratiekrise zeigen, auf die in den Verhandlungen um konkrete Energieprojekte nicht adäquat reagiert werden kann. Zweitens werden die gewonnenen Erkenntnisse über Gemeinwohlkonflikte in der Energiewende demokratietheoretisch diskutiert. Dabei wird argumentiert, dass die fehlende Bereitschaft (von Akteur*innen der Regierungspolitik) zur Austragung von Konflikten um die Priorisierung von Gemeinwohlzielen der Energiewende ein zentrales Defizit darstellt. In Kombination mit der einseitigen Orientierung am deliberativen Demokratiemodell bei der Umsetzung von Energieprojekten verschärft dies die Tendenzen einer Demokratiekrise. Aus radikaldemokratischer Perspektive bedarf es agonistischer Streiträume, in denen politische Gegner*innen darum konkurrieren, ihre jeweiligen Energiewende-Visionen durchzusetzen.

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Ende Gelände: Anti-Kohle-Proteste in Deutschland

Cited by 24 publications

References 15 publications

Futurizing politics and the sustainability of real-world experiments: what role for innovation and exnovation in the German energy transition?

Futurizing politics and the sustainability of real-world experiments: what role for innovation and exnovation in the German energy transition?

The transformation of provisioning systems from an integrated perspective of social metabolism and political economy: a conceptual framework

Energiekonflikte und Demokratiekrise. Eine radikaldemokratische Perspektive auf das Ringen um Gemeinwohlziele der Energiewende

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