Politicising UK energy: what ‘speaking energy security’ can do

Kuzemko, Caroline

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“…As of the mid-2000s, however, it started to become apparent that markets were at risk of under-delivering on energy supply security and affordability whilst climate change mitigation had become politically far more salient (see Lockwood 2013). Scientific arguments about anthropogenic climate change as well as debates about dwindling oil resources, the UK's ageing energy infrastructures and rising electricity and gas prices have together resulted in various, ongoing repoliticisations of energy as an issue area (Kuzemko 2013(Kuzemko , 2014. Recognition of these concerns and contestations has been evident in the adoption of a number of new energy policy objectives and in some attempts to redesign UK energy governance institutions.…”

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Energy Depoliticisation in the UK: Destroying Political Capacity

Kuzemko

2015

The British Journal of Politics and International Relations

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Provides new insights into depoliticisation literatures by applying depoliticisation beyond economic and monetary policy to energy and climate change policy. • Demonstrates ways in which forms of depoliticisation can affect political capacity to respond to new policy challenges. • Challenges climate change and energy transition literatures by explaining how and why UK energy policy institutions have constrained innovation and sustainable change. Depoliticisation, as a concept, has been utilised to explain specific aspects of economic governance as it has developed over the past thirty years, particularly in certain OECD countries. This article focuses on the outcomes of three forms of depoliticisation, marketised, technocratic and nondeliberative, for political capacity. Political capacity is defined in relation to a notion of politics as social interaction, deliberation, choice and agency. Using UK energy governance as a case study it claims that the depoliticisation of energy policy has resulted in embedded corporate power, a widening disjuncture between experts and majoritarian institutions and limited knowledge structures. As a result the state's role is still confined to giver of market signals and to temporary interventions in the face of complex and unprecedented commitments to transition the UK towards a low carbon future.

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Energy Depoliticisation in the UK: Destroying Political Capacity

Kuzemko

2015

The British Journal of Politics and International Relations

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“…Consequently, it has been criticised for its continuing weakness in conceptualising the political economy of energy, from a range of institutionalist, sociological and discursive directions (Keating et al 2012;Kuzemko 2013;2014a;2014b).…”

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Nexus-thinking in international political economy: what energy and natural resource scholarship can offer international political economy

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2018

Handbook of the International Political Economy of Energy and Natural Resources

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“…Beveridge and Naumann, 2014) or adapted (e.g. Jenkins, 2011;Kuzemko, 2014) by other researchers. Hay defines depoliticisation and politicisation as the movements of issues between an arena of fate and necessity (the non-political), where nothing can be done (depoliticisation), to one of deliberation and contingency (the political), where action and change are possible (politicisation) (Hay, 2007: 81).…”

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The (Ontological) Politics in Depoliticisation Debates: Three Lenses on the Decline of the Political

Beveridge

2017

Political Studies Review

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The argument that representative democracies are experiencing an age of depoliticisation has become increasingly prominent. However, there has been too little reflection on the assumptions made about politics within the depoliticisation literature. This has led to a lack of precision in terms of how we identify (de)politicisation empirically and the grounds upon which we can normatively critique it. To address this, the article changes the terms of the depoliticisation debate and asks not what we can learn about politics by thinking more about depoliticisation, but what we can learn about depoliticisation if we think more about politics. How politics is defined, in spatial, temporal and activity terms, hugely influences how we might understand depoliticisation. Three prominent and contrasting definitions of politics are shown: politics as the institutions of government (politics lens 1), politics as choice and contingency (politics lens 2) and politics as the apparatus of order and consensus versus 'political' moments of antagonism (politics lens 3). By considering these ontologies of politics, the article teases out some of their strengths and weaknesses in capturing the depoliticisation 'crisis'. The article concludes by considering the benefits of a multi-lens approach to depoliticisation as a preliminary step to encourage greater reflexivity and debate. Keywords depoliticisation, politicisation, post-politics, anti-politics, democratic crisis Accepted: 22 June 2016 The argument that representative democracies are experiencing an age of 'depoliticisation ' (Flinders and Wood, 2014;Hay, 2007) or 'post-politics' (Mouffe, 2005;Rancière, 2001) has become increasingly prominent. While the claims are clear enough, there has been too little reflection on the sometimes quite implicit assumptions about politics within the various strands of the depoliticisation literature. Consequently, there is a lack

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Politicising UK energy: what ‘speaking energy security’ can do

Cited by 44 publications

References 15 publications

Energy Depoliticisation in the UK: Destroying Political Capacity

Energy Depoliticisation in the UK: Destroying Political Capacity

Nexus-thinking in international political economy: what energy and natural resource scholarship can offer international political economy

The (Ontological) Politics in Depoliticisation Debates: Three Lenses on the Decline of the Political

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