EESG Outreach Digest
Maddy Kroot
Hello all!
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.
You can also submit items directly by filling out this form or emailing Maddy Kroot (maddy...@wisc.edu).
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EESG News:
· 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:
· [FIXED LINK] Energy Research and Social Science Awards: Best Paper Award and Early Career Scientist Award. Deadline for nominations: May 31.
CALL FOR PAPERS:
· Special Issue of Politics and Governance - Geopolitics of Energy: Turbulence, Trade, and Transition. Abstract deadline: June 15
· Special Issue of Energy Policy: The Geopolitics of the Energy Transition – A European Perspective. Manuscript deadline: Sept 1.
WORKSHOPS, TALKS, AND MORE!
· 2026 RGS-IBG Energy Geographies Webinar Series:
o Dr Stuti Haldar, Lund University, “A human-centric approach to energy justice: Embedding agency and capabilities in transitions discourse.” Tuesday May 26. Register to attend here: Stuti Haldar Webinar
· [NEW] Summer School on Sustainability Governance. Rutgers University (New Brunswick NJ, US), from August 24-28, 2026. Deadline to apply: June 10.
PhD POSITIONS:
· [NEW] PhD Research Fellow – FEASIBILITY project. Fridtjof Nansen Institute (Fornebu, Norway). Deadline: June 18
POSTDOCTORAL POSITIONS:
· Postdoctoral Researcher in Climate Governance & Experimental Social Science. Oslo Metropolitan University (Oslo, Norway). Deadline: May 28
· Post Doctoral Fellow in Data Center and Energy Infrastructure Buildout. Emory University (Atlanta GA, US). Deadline: May 30
· Research Fellow. University of Warwick (Coventry, UK). Deadline: May 31
· [NEW] 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.
· [NEW] Assistant Director of Sustainability/Program Coordinator of Environmental Studies. Colgate University (Hamilton NY, US). Deadline: Open until filled.
· [NEW] Bard Graduate Programs in Sustainability Admissions Associate. Bard College (Annandale-On-Hudson, NY, US). Deadline: Open until filled.
[NEW] 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.
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:
· 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
· 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
· 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
· 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.
· 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.
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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