Print Email Facebook Twitter ‘Commoning practices’ for energy justice? Perspectives on the heat transition in the city of Amsterdam Title ‘Commoning practices’ for energy justice? Perspectives on the heat transition in the city of Amsterdam Author Kaandorp, C. (TU Delft Water Resources) Pessoa, Igor T.Moreno (University of Twente) Pesch, U. (TU Delft Ethics & Philosophy of Technology) van de Giesen, N.C. (TU Delft Water Resources) Abraham, E. (TU Delft Water Resources) Date 2023 Abstract Decarbonisation of the built environment is needed to abate the use of fossil fuels and greenhouse gas emissions. In the city of Amsterdam, multiple bottom-up initiatives have been initiated to reach these goals. In this paper, we explore how energy justice is reshaped by these initiatives on an urban scale. This is done by a case study on a platform that aims to connect, support and inform community energy initiatives. Based on ethnographic fieldwork performed between 2019 and 2022 on the heat transition in Amsterdam, we describe how relations between governmental bodies, businesses and urban residents are contested through this platform. Additionally, we describe how the platform shapes the access of citizens to decision-making spaces, financial tools and information to foster new forms of local autonomy, physical heating infrastructures and decision-making procedures. By analysing the motivations and activities for increasing users’ influence and ownership of resources with the notion of ‘commoning practices’, we show how activities of the platform do not only shape physical heating infrastructures, but also the decision-making processes for achieving low-carbon and renewable heating systems in Amsterdam. We, therefore, propose that the notion of ‘commoning practices’ can be used in future research to contribute to a dynamic understanding of how energy justice concerns are expressed and shaped in practice. Subject Commoning practicesCommunity energyDecarbonisation of the built environmentEnergy justiceUrban anthropologyUrban commons To reference this document use: http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:707babbe-37de-4fe6-98e7-3ce0407cce07 DOI https://doi.org/10.1016/j.erss.2023.103369 ISSN 2214-6296 Source Energy Research and Social Science, 108 Part of collection Institutional Repository Document type journal article Rights © 2023 C. Kaandorp, Igor T.Moreno Pessoa, U. Pesch, N.C. van de Giesen, E. Abraham Files PDF 1_s2.0_S2214629623004292_main.pdf 3.53 MB Close viewer /islandora/object/uuid:707babbe-37de-4fe6-98e7-3ce0407cce07/datastream/OBJ/view