Panel on energy justice at 2026 Earth System Governance conference - call for abstracts
Jonathan.Pickering
Dear colleagues,
We’re putting together a panel on energy justice for the 2026 Bath Conference on Earth System Governance (8-10 September 2025). Please get in touch by 10 January 2026 if you’re keen to join – details below.
Best wishes,
Jonathan.
Energy justice and earth system governance: connecting theories, scales and practices
Panel organisers: Jonathan Pickering (University of Canberra), Wendy Conway-Lamb (University of Canberra), David Schlosberg (University of Sydney)
Issues of justice pervade all stages of energy supply chains, ranging from the impacts of fossil fuel extraction or large-scale renewable energy projects on communities and ecosystems, to the diversity of the workforce in new energy industries and the ability of people on low incomes to access affordable electricity. These issues are entwined with global environmental change, including the climate and biodiversity crises. Yet, while climate justice and planetary justice have been central concerns of recent scholarship on earth system governance, the field’s engagement with energy justice has been limited so far.
This panel aims to showcase new thinking on energy justice, including through dialogue between energy justice and other justice frameworks, and by approaching energy justice through the lens of earth system governance. We welcome theoretical and empirical papers on this theme, including on topics such as:
· How should we understand the relationship between energy justice on the one hand and related ideas such as environmental, climate, planetary, and multispecies justice, and how can these approaches complement and inform one another?
· How is energy justice shaped by practices of governance across multiple scales, from local energy cooperatives to domestic network regulation and global climate negotiations, and how do these scales interact?
· How do understandings of energy justice vary across geographic and cultural contexts, and how can capabilities, practice-based and decolonial approaches enrich conceptualisations of energy justice?
· How do just transition approaches in the energy sector intersect with other aspects of global environmental change such as biodiversity?
Please send abstracts of up to 300 words to Jonathan Pickering (jonathan....@canberra.edu.au) by Saturday 10 January 2026. The panel organisers will then submit the full set of abstracts to the conference organisers by Thursday 15 January 2026.
Jonathan Pickering
Associate Professor, Canberra School of Government
University of Canberra, Australia
https://researchprofiles.canberra.edu.au/en/persons/jonathan-pickering
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