The double-edged sword of grant funding: a study of community-led climate change initiatives in remote rural Scotland

Creamer, Emily

doi:10.1080/13549839.2014.885937

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“…Recent empirical work that has considered the role of communities in energy and sustainability governance also questions this (e.g. Walker et al 2007, Creamer 2015, Taylor Aiken 2015, Simcock 2016. Those who have cautioned against the presumption that decentralised, community action equals democratic or just processes and outcomes have often done so for two key reasons: difference and inequality.…”

Section: Democratisation Through Decentralisation?mentioning

confidence: 99%

“…For those sceptical of the links between forms and norms of governance, community governance simply signifies a change in scale, with the local distribution of power determining the outcomes of material and symbolic contests among actors (Lane and Corbett 2005). When seeking to develop an inclusive community project, it is therefore important to consider the patchwork of concerns and interests that exist within a place, and the power relations between them (McMorran et al 2014, Creamer 2015, Grossmann and Creamer 2017. This is pertinent to CE groups, who might manage and distribute substantial sums of money (Walker et al 2010, Bristow et al 2012.…”

Section: Democratisation Through Decentralisation?mentioning

confidence: 99%

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Negotiating energy democracy in practice: governance processes in community energy projects

Veelen

2018

Environmental Politics

127

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There is a growing 'energy democracy' (ED) movement which regards the transition to renewable energy as an opportunity for socio-economic transformation, as well as technological innovation. The literature on ED tends to associate greater democratic control of energy systems with increased community control over the means of energy generation and distribution. Nonetheless, this literature often assumes rather than demonstrates that the forms of governance it promotes are more democratic than the status quo. This analysis contributes to the emerging field of ED by assessing the complex and varied ways in which communities in Scotland practise energy governance. By focusing on three key governance processes (decision-making, accountability and dispute resolution), the importance of local contexts for the establishment and negotiation of democratic practices is demonstrated. This local specificity, however, also raises further questions regarding the universal applicability of the ED concept.

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Section: Democratisation Through Decentralisation?mentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Democratisation Through Decentralisation?mentioning

confidence: 99%

Negotiating energy democracy in practice: governance processes in community energy projects

Veelen

2018

Environmental Politics

127

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“…A way of grasping and conceiving the world in which belonging to a community guarantees ideal social behaviour, in this case targeting carbon deviance. Various state schemes put community to work here; within the UK alone there is England and Wales's Low Carbon Community Challenge (DECC, 2012;Hauxwell-Baldwin, 2013) and Scotland's Climate Challenge Fund (Creamer, 2015a(Creamer, , 2015bTaylor Aiken, 2014). In England local authorities are now statutorily obligated to produce a Sustainable Community Strategy, and there exists a Community Energy Strategy (DECC, 2014), alongside the wider application of community in schemes like Scotland's Community Empowerment Act.…”

Section: Polyvalent Communitymentioning

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Polysemic, Polyvalent and Phatic: A Rough Evolution of Community With Reference to Low Carbon Transitions

Aiken¹

2016

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This article addresses the varying interpretations, idealising and use of community, with specific reference to the way community is mobilised, deployed and put to work within the transition to low carbon futures. It surveys the broad heritage of community from nineteenth century sociology to more recent post-structural interpretations, including community as a governmental technique. This backdrop of wider understandings of community is now reflected in the emerging field of community low carbon transitions. The paper looks to the multiple, overlapping yet categorically different communities implied in this theoretically and empirically burgeoning field.First, and in common with community's social science heritage, this article argues that community is polysemic. That is, it carries within it wide and varied semantic associations; importantly -amongst small-scale, place or rurality -requiring commonality and a border. Digging deeper, community also has a concurrent social theory legacy beyond referred semantic association. Here community is polyvalent, capaciously involving many different and overlapping values: from exclusive belonging, exclusion of others and difference, a more governmental fostering of correct conduct and good behaviour, to a feeling of belonging or acceptance that goes beyond semantics. Lastly, and innovatively for this area of study, the paper addresses community as phatic communication. Here, community has no meaning, nor does it imply shared or encouraged values. Rather community is reduced to gesture, which transforms understanding the way community is used in meeting low carbon challenges.

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“…These projects were chosen as 'outliers' to the early rounds of funding dominance of local rural schemes in the highlands and islands (Creamer 2014). Yet even with these urban examples, groups preferred to see themselves as locally rooted in neighbourhoods.…”

Section: Producing Common Sense Communitymentioning

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Common Sense Community? The Climate Challenge Fund's Official and Tacit Community Construction

Aiken

2014

Scottish Geographical Journal

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The Climate Challenge Fund (CCF) is the Scottish Government's flagship initiative addressing the twenty-first century's core concern: environmental challenges. The CCF seeks to reduce carbon emissions explicitly through community. Building on community's long and strong social science heritage, this paper outlines the CCF's tacit and unspoken community assumptions. Through these assumptions, this policy (re)produces, prefigures and performs a particular form of community, this being community's elision with locality, and synonym for place, rurality or neighbourhood. Taking on these tacit assumptions is demonstrative of their belief in the effectiveness of such community. After exploring the CCF, its source and structure, the paper delves into empirical work situated at all levels of the CCF's funding chain. It then teases out how the assumptions around -and the need to demonstrate -community help determine the projects selected, and subsequently the vision of community chosen, enacted and mobilised. The CCF (re) produces a particular vision of community with implications for who receives funding, how environmental action is framed and also for the future of community in Scotland.

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The double-edged sword of grant funding: a study of community-led climate change initiatives in remote rural Scotland

Cited by 112 publications

References 30 publications

Negotiating energy democracy in practice: governance processes in community energy projects

Negotiating energy democracy in practice: governance processes in community energy projects

Polysemic, Polyvalent and Phatic: A Rough Evolution of Community With Reference to Low Carbon Transitions

Common Sense Community? The Climate Challenge Fund's Official and Tacit Community Construction

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