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Set in the context of climate change, global biodiversity loss and energy insecurity, debates around energy transitions are gaining precedence across the planet. Critical energy geographies work to unpack the contemporary energy transition in the context of historical energy use, shifting policy debates and diverse representations of energetic associations, which together complicate notions of a global energy transition and rather bespeak non-linear, multi-scalar and contested processes of historically and geographically situated energy relations. This module speaks across politics, policy and poetics, and unpacks a multi-pronged approach to grappling with past, present and emerging energy geographies. The module will theorise energy, conceptualise energy transitions (historical and present), as well as consider the politics, policies and poetics of coal, oil, nuclear energy, wind energy, solar energy and emerging energy futures. Ìý

Aims of the module:

The purpose of the module is to equip students with an interdisciplinary, multi-pronged approach to energy, serving to complicate notions of a singular global energy transition, as well as offering ways to think critically about energetic relations across space and time. Drawing from energy geographies, critical resource geographies, political geology, the geohumanities, the environmental humanities and science and technology studies, the module aims to provide students with a way of grappling with human-energy relations past, present and emerging.

Learning outcomes of the module:

• Understand the different ways in which scholars have sought to theorise energy and how these are historically and geographically situated.
• Understand how scholars have sought to theorise energy transitions.
• Be able to apply diverse ways of thinking about human-energy relations to specific sites.
• Be able to work with others to reflect on different forms of energy, their politics, related policies and poetic representations.