EESG Outreach Digest

[Maddy Kroot]

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Here’s the latest Outreach Digest from the Energy and Environment Specialty Group (EESG). Please continue sharing things directly with the listserv and AAG Knowledge Community pages! This digest email is not meant to replace direct postings, and we’ll be pulling from those emails as we put together the digest.

 

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EESG News:

·       [NEW] EESG is excited to announce the 5th Annual Energy Geographies Conference, to be held virtually on Saturday, September 26th, 2026 from 12 PM-4 PM US Eastern Time. This half-day event will include a keynote, thematically organized paper presentations, and a panel discussion. We welcome abstract submissions on any topic or theme within energy geography. This year, given its current salience, we especially encourage submissions and discussions related to geopolitics of energy. (See the snazzy flyer our grad reps made in the attachment!)

o   If you wish to submit a paper presentation abstract for consideration, the abstract submission portal can be found here.

o   Note: Non-Members of the AAG will need to create a free login on www.aag.org to register for the event and access the submission portal.

·       Give us feedback on the EESG Outreach Digest! After a year and a half of biweekly digests, the EESG is looking to see what is working and what can be improved in our communications. (Plus, help document the service work of the EESG outreach coordinators and secretary!) Please complete this survey by Friday, June 12.

·       Have a recent publication you’d like to share with the EESG listservs? Fill out this link! We’ll be populating a new section of the Digest with recent publications (see below). For our purposes, “recent” means publications since the beginning of 2025.

 

Funding Opportunities and awards:

·        [NEW] Eric Wolf Prize for Best Article-Length Paper. From the Political Ecology Society (PESO). Submission deadline: Sept 20.

o   The competition involves a feature presentation of the paper during the annual meeting of the Society of Applied Anthropology (either virtual or in person), publication in the Journal of Political Ecology, and a $750 award!

o   To be eligible for the competition, authors must be current Master’s or Ph.D. students OR recent Master’s or Ph.D. degree recipients, no more than two years past the completion of their degree. Multiple authored papers are considered as long as the first author meets the above criteria. We cannot accept papers that are already under review at a journal.

o   Please anonymize your submission and use the style guidelines provided on the Journal of Political Ecology webpage:

 

CALL FOR PAPERS:

·       [NEW] Call for Papers for Proposed Theme Issue on Water and Energy Transition in Environment and Planning E: Nature and Space. Abstract and short bio submission due July 10.

·       Special Issue of Politics and Governance - Geopolitics of Energy: Turbulence, Trade, and Transition. Abstract deadline: June 15

·       [NEW] Social Sciences Advancement Dialogue Network (SSADN) Call for Abstracts for the Research, Practice & Innovation in Social Sciences 2026 International Online Conference. Conference date: Sept 15 (virtual). Abstract deadline: July 31

·       Special Issue of Energy Policy: The Geopolitics of the Energy Transition – A European Perspective. Manuscript deadline: Sept 1.

 

WORKSHOPS, TALKS, AND MORE!

·       Summer School on Sustainability Governance. Rutgers University (New Brunswick NJ, US), from August 24-28, 2026. Deadline to apply: June 10.

·       [NEW] Empowered Futures Research School's 2026 PhD course: Energy transitions, commons and enclosures: Governance and justice in renewable energy development. Norwegian University of Life Sciences (NMBU) and organized in collaboration with the University of Porto, the University of Agder and the Fridtjof Nansen Institute. Course to be held in Porto, Portugal from Oct 13-16. Registration deadline: June 16.

·       [NEW] Webinar: What do communities in the Mid-Atlantic think of offshore wind? Speakers: Jeremy Firestone, Nina David, Emma Korein, Zoē Ketola, Lucia Paye-Layleh (all at University of Delaware). Talk to be held on July 1st from 12:00 - 1:00 PM EDT, over Zoom. Click here to register.

 

PhD POSITIONS:

·       PhD Research Fellow – FEASIBILITY project. Fridtjof Nansen Institute (Fornebu, Norway). Deadline: June 18

·       [NEW] PhD: Understanding the politicization of university knowledge and education. Utrecht University (Utrecht, Netherlands). Deadline: July 27.

 

POSTDOCTORAL POSITIONS:

·       Postdoctoral research fellow to study public perceptions of climate-mitigating technologies. University of British Columbia (Vancouver BC, Canada), Deadline: June 15.

·       High Meadows Environmental Institute Environmental Fellows. Princeton University (Princeton NJ, US). Deadline: Nov 2

 

FACULTY JOB POSTINGS:

·       Visiting Assistant Professor, Department of Environment, Geography and Geoscience. Augustana College (Rock Island, IL US). Deadline: Open until filled.

·       Assistant Director of Sustainability/Program Coordinator of Environmental Studies. Colgate University (Hamilton NY, US). Deadline: Open until filled.

·       Bard Graduate Programs in Sustainability Admissions Associate. Bard College (Annandale-On-Hudson, NY, US). Deadline: Open until filled.

·       [NEW] Program Manager for Climate Solutions Lab and Watson Research Initiatives. Brown University (Providence RI, US). Deadline: Open until filled.

·       [NEW] Assistant Associate Professor. Elizabeth City State University (Elizabeth City, NC, US). Deadline: Open until filled.

·       [NEW] Assistant Teaching Professor, Human and/or Physical Geography. Towson University (Towson MD, US). Deadline: Jun 15 (priority).

·       [NEW] Full professorship in Sustainability, Knowledge and Society (W2/W3). Leuphana University of Lüneburg (Lüneburg, Germany). Deadline: July 7.

 

RECENT PUBLICATIONS:

This is a new section of the EESG Outreach Digest to showcase recent publications by EESG members or generally of interest to the membership. Click here to submit recent publications. For the debut of this section, we are considering “recent” to include any publications published since the beginning of 2025. A link to the Google Sheet of recent publications can be found here and on the EESG website.

 

Note: Publications marked [NEW] have been submitted to the EESG’s publications list since its last installment.

 

BOOKS:

·       Bradshaw, M.J. (2026) The Geopolitics of Energy System Transformation: Managing the Messy Mix. Bristol: Bristol University Press. [The book is open access and can be downloaded as a pdf from the weblink.]

·       Luke, N. (2026) Electric Life: Utility Regulation and the Fight for Energy Democracy. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press. [You can use the code READMIT20 for a 20% discount at the Penguin RandomHouse website. Also available open access from the MIT Press website.]

 

CHAPTERS IN EDITED VOLUMES:

·       Al-Saleh, D. (2026) “Technical Petro-Education and the Future of Capitalism in Qatar,” in The Gospel of Work and Money: Global Histories of Industrial Education, (eds) Karine Walther and Oliver Charbonneau, University of Pennsylvania Press, pages 233-253.

·       Ojeda-Pereira, I., Tironi, M. (2026). From the Global Just Transition to a Just Socioecological Transition in Chile? Trajectories and Technopolitics of Justice. In: Costa Cordella, E. (eds) The Ecological Transition as a Challenge to Law. Just Transitions. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-032-22055-4_2.

 

JOURNAL ARTICLES:

·       [NEW] Arent, W., Pradhan, B., Grimley, M., & Chan, G. (2026). Redlined and disconnected: Historic housing discrimination and modern-day energy insecurity disparities in Minnesota’s Twin Cities. Energy Research & Social Science, 135, 104689. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.erss.2026.104689

·       Brannstrom, C., da Silva Freitas, F., & Gorayeb, A. (2025). Analyzing legitimacy discourses in an emerging green hydrogen hub in Brazil. Progress in Economic Geography, 100058. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.peg.2025.100058

·       Brelage, T., Michaud, G. (2026). County commissioner perspectives on large-scale solar projects in the rural Midwestern United States. Discover Energy. 1–30. doi: 10.1007/s43937-026-00157-0.

·       Bridge, G., 2025. Inwards to the centre! The trouble with ‘repositioning energy geographies’. Dialogues in Human Geography. https://doi.org/10.1177/20438206251398545.

·       Castillo Jara, E. & Bruns, A., (2026) “The production of unequal energyscapes: Contested colonial spaces for tar sands development in Canada”, Journal of Political Ecology 33(1): 6451. doi: https://doi.org/10.2458/jpe.6451

·       Deberdt, Raphael and Jessica DiCarlo. 2026. Minerals at the margins and the new geopolitics of critical minerals. Energy Research and Social Science. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.erss.2026.104601

·       Debert, Raphael, Jessica DiCarlo, and Philippe Le Billon. 2026. On the coloniality of green financialization: Green capital landing and accumulation by decarbonization. Geoforum. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geoforum.2026.104670

·       DiCarlo, Jessica, Cory Combs, and Raphael Debert. 2025 Fractured extraction: Mining firms, provinces, and municipalities in the decentralized politics of China’s rare earth production. The China Quarterly, 264: 1012-1033. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0305741025101586  

·       Diezmartínez, C.V. and Short Gianotti, A.G., 2025. Climate change and municipal finance: Ordinary innovations for just urban transitions. Urban Studies, 62(7), pp.1375-1396.

·       Diezmartínez, Claudia V., Benjamin K. Sovacool, and Anne G. Short Gianotti. "Conflicted climate futures: Climate justice imaginaries as tools for policy evaluation in cities." Energy Research & Social Science 120 (2025): 103886.

·       Elmallah, S. (2026). Constructing Equity in Urban Climate Mitigation Planning. Journal of Planning Education and Research, 46(2), 471-484. http://doi.org/10.1177/0739456X241310196

·       Ewers, M., Brannstrom, C., & Conrecode, C. (2025). What are the emerging contours of regional decarbonization? Insights from an exploratory analysis of US clean hydrogen hubs. Geoforum, 163, 104294. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geoforum.2025.104294

·       Fearn, G. (2026). A Tale of Two Energy Crises: Between a Neoliberal Policy Paradigm and Electro-Capitalism. Annals of the American Association of Geographers, 116(2), 429–446. https://doi.org/10.1080/24694452.2025.2570832

·       Gadzanku, S., Qu, W., Attari, S., Bergquist, P., Carley, S., Knasin, A., Konisky, D., Michaud, G., Silva, J. (2025). Public attitudes and community engagement in large-scale solar siting. Environmental Research Letters, 20, 113001.

·       Gorayeb, A., Brannstrom, C., & Xavier, T. (2025). Counter-mapping reveals potential conflicts between offshore wind energy and traditional fishing communities in Brazil. Energy Research & Social Science, 127, 104302. 10.1016/j.erss.2025.104302

·       Harlan, Tyler, Yixian Sun, Juliet Lu, Jessica DiCarlo, Coraline Goron, Yifei Li, Jessica Liao, KuoRay Mao, Jesse Rodenbiker, Deborah Seligsohn, Alex Wang, Niklas Weins, and Annah Lake Zhu. 2025. China aspires to be an environmental leader: How should the rest of the world engage? Journal of Current Chinese Affairs. https://doi.org/10.1177/18681026251400351

·       Hoicka, C.E., Berka, A., Chitsaz, S., Klym, K., Regier, A., Macdonald, M., 2026. Impacts and place-based approaches to transformative energy justice for First Nations. Environ. Res.: Energy 3, 015010. https://doi.org/10.1088/2753-3751/ae3c15

o   See also: https://theconversation.com/indigenous-led-renewable-energy-projects-offer-benefits-that-reach-far-beyond-reducing-carbon-emissions-276612

·       Hoicka, C.E., MacCallum, E., Hameed, A., Leung, L., Neville, K.J., Asher, L., Galloway, T., Higgins, D., McKinnon, L., Papineau, M., Teelucksingh, C., Tizya-Tramm, E., Azimi Dijvejin, Z., Bazylak, A., Bergerson, J., Berlinguette, C.P., Besco, L., Birss, V., Boon, D., Bullock, R., Chitsaz, S., Chew, S., Fitzgibbon, C., Foroozan, A., Huang, S., Jekill, N., Ji, T., Kilius, E., Maclean, H.L., Pitre, V., Ren, S., Riep, E., Riordon, J., Ross, M., Seferos, D.S., Shayesteh Zeraati, A., Shi, C., Tiwari, S., Williams, A., Wu, Y.A., Yao, X., Zhu, M., Van De. Coevering, D., Zurba, M., Sinton, D., 2026. Toward inclusive energy futures: Reflections on the collective authorship of a multi-institutional, interdisciplinary, and community-engaged equity, diversity, and inclusion terms of reference. Research Ethics 17470161261423564. https://doi.org/10.1177/17470161261423564

·       Hoicka, C.E., Regier, A., Berka, A.L., Chitsaz, S., Klym, K., 2025. “Stretch and transform” for energy justice: Indigenous advocacy for institutional transformative change of electricity in British Columbia, Canada. Energy Policy 202, 114615. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.enpol.2025.114615

o   See also: https://theconversation.com/a-first-nations-power-authority-could-transform-electricity-generation-for-indigenous-nations-254982

·       Kraushaar-Friesen, N., Bridge, G. and Kuchler, M., 2025. Seas of change: An evolving imaginary of offshore energy capture on the United Kingdom's Continental Shelf. Energy Research & Social Science, 120. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.erss.2024.103889

·       Kraushaar‐Friesen, N., Bridge, G. and Kuchler, M., 2025. Between energy transition and industrial revival: Exploring hydrogen imaginaries in the United Kingdom and Teesside. Geo: Geography and Environment, 12(2) https://doi.org/10.1002/geo2.70033

·       Kroot, M. (2026). How to kill a powerline: Utility-on-utility violence, electricity capital, and the political ecology of climate delay. Environment and Planning E: Nature and Space, 9(1), 312–333. https://doi.org/10.1177/25148486251386257

·       Libassi, Matthew. (2025). Mineral intensive: Digging for batteries and the case of Indonesian nickel. Environment and Society, 16(1), 90-111. https://doi.org/10.3167/ares.2025.160106

·       Libassi, Matthew. (2026). Cheap nickel: Materiality and socio‐technical reorganization on Indonesia's energy transition mineral frontier. Antipode, 58(2), e70151. https://doi.org/10.1111/anti.70151

·       [NEW] Louder, E., Harrison, C., & Luke, N. (2025). Picking up the slack: Faith-based organizations, informal support networks and energy insecurity, poverty, and vulnerability in the southeastern United States. Energy Research & Social Science, 129, 104350. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.erss.2025.104350

·       Mariotti, E., & Engström, J. (2025). Transforming abandoned mines into solar farms: a pathway to renewable energy development and sustainable land use. Environmental Research: Energy, 2(1), 015013. DOI 10.1088/2753-3751/adb6a3

·       McCoy, E. D., Bunting, A., George, D., Husted, M., Kriese, S., McClure, J., Anderson, R., Landrum, T., & Leonard, D. (2026). Putting the Justice in Environmental Justice Screening Tools: A Case Study on Centering Community Voices and Needs in Southwest Detroit. Environmental Justice, 19(1), 54-66. https://doi.org/10.1177/19394071251390200 [Contact emm...@psu.edu if need access to a copy]

·       Narayan, U., Higginson, S. & Eyre, N. Approaches to address the gap in research on energy use and racialization in the UK. Energy Efficiency 19, 4 (2026). https://doi-org.manchester.idm.oclc.org/10.1007/s12053-025-10390-6.

·       Ojeda-Pereira, I., Herrera-León, S., Campos-Medina, F. et al. From fragmented to integrated sustainability in lithium extraction? Political measurements and critical minerals in times of sociotechnical transition in Chile. Sustain Sci 21, 1383–1391 (2026). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11625-026-01835-7.

·       [NEW] Öztürk, D. M. and Aydın C. I. 2025. "Beneath the Surface, Injustice Boils: Environmental Justice Struggles Against Geothermal Energy in Turkey." Energy Research & Social Science 130: 104412. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.erss.2025.104412.

·       Pitt, D., Michaud, G. (2025). Modeling local distributed solar energy potential: A case study from Virginia, USA. Energy Sources, Part B: Economics, Planning, and Policy, 20(1), 1–15. doi: 10.1080/15567249.2024.2447865.

·       Salma Elmallah, Robi Nilson, Joseph Rand, Emma Uridge, Ben Hoen. 2025. Under-capacitated and over-powered? Rural austerity and asymmetrical negotiating relationships in US wind energy development, Journal of Rural Studies 119. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jrurstud.2025.103749.

·       Sheinberg, R., Pincetl, S., & Pierce, G. (2025). Energy justice at the utility scale: Insights from Los Angeles’s path to decarbonization. Energy Research & Social Science, 130, 104418. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.erss.2025.104418

·       Solomon, B.D. 2026. Electrification to maximize positive climate impacts: a narrative review of the U.S. Inflation Reduction Act, Journal of Environmental Law and Policy, Vol. 6(1). https://doi.org/10.65746/jelp107

·       Solomon, B.D., Pasqualetti, M.J. Nelson, E. Global disparities in renewable energy development: where they exist and why. Applied Geography, Vol. 186 (January 2026), 103825. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.apgeog.2025.103825

·       Stock, R. & Mulvaney, D. (2025). Shards of light: Ruination, pollution, and the lived experience of solar waste in India. Energy Research & Social Science, 129, 104354

·       Stock, R. & T. Ptak (2026). Destroy to create: Geopolitical ecologies and gendered dispossessions of solar development in Ghana. Environment and Planning E: Nature and Space, 1-19. DOI: 10.1177/251484862614258.

·       Welton, S., N. Luke, E. Toussaint, C. Hamilton, and E. Louder. (2026). The Energy Transition’s Democracy Gap: Working Through and Beyond Procedural Justice to Realize Energy Democracy. Energy Research and Social Science.

·       [NEW] White-Nockleby, C., Louder, E., & Prieto, M. (2026). An uncooperative transition: Material contradictions in Chile's renewable energy boom. Environment and Planning E: Nature and Space, 9(1), 220-242. doi/pdf/10.1177/25148486251383795

 

NON-PEER REVIEWED ARTICLES:

·       Fearn G (2026) ‘Electro-Capitalism’ The Break-Down, https://www.break-down.org/electro-capitalism/

 

OTHER PUBLICATIONS:

·       DiCarlo, Jessica, Raphael Deberdt, Nicole Smith, Scott Odell, Aaron Malone, Lydia Jennings. 2026. A just energy transition requires just-shoring critical materials. Nature Energy. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41560-025-01940-4 [A longer-form article on this framework is forthcoming.]

·       Rieger, J., Muñoz, F., Grönberg, L., Lange, K.-R., Ojeda-Pereira, I, Briceño, D., Nass, C., Stahl, C., Cassola, J., Rojas-Córdova, C., Keith-Norambuena, B., Lufin, M., Campos-Medina, F., & Herrera-León, S. (2026). Following Socio-Environmental Conflict Narratives about Energy Transition in Chile: A Spatio-temporal Analysis using Dynamic Topic Modeling. CEUR Workshop Proceedings. Proceedings of the Text2Story’26 Workshop, Delft. Indexed: Scopus.

 

 

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