Hydrogen Panel at ISA 2023

[Miriam Prys-Hansen]

Dear all, 

I am co-organizing a panel (for ISA 2023 in Montreal) on

"Politics and Poetics of Hydrogen": Discourses and policies pertaining to hydrogen are gaining increasing salience in the global energy transition and, inevitably, in global geopolitics and geoeconomics. Various (sub)national governments and international organizations in both the Global South (such as China, India, Japan, and Brazil) and North (such as the US, the EU, and Germany) have formulated their own ‘hydrogen strategies’, which lay bare particular strategic visions, sets of policies, and modes of politics and political economy, and roadmaps into the future.In this panel, we show why it is high time IR paid scholarly critical attention to these increasingly epoch-making dynamics. Green hydrogen is after all part and parcel of the global race towards a new carbon-neutral future. This panel’s papers unpack the question of hydrogen from a broad variety of perspectives, including (but not limited to): (critical) theory, history, energy security, political ecology, critical geopolitics, geoeconomics, infrastructure, connectivity, governance, North-South or South-South relations, post-colonial studies, flows of capital, inter-state relations, non-state actors, great (environmental) power rivalry, authoritarianism, international status (seeking), fears, ambitions, and anxieties"

This is a first draft of our panel abstract - please get in touch if you are interested in joining us!

Best,

Miriam