000			02084nab a2200205 4500
003			OSt
005			20230906123544.0
007			cr aa aaaaa
008			230906b |||||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d
100			_aBecker, Soren _957538
245			_aEnergy democracy as the right to the city: _bUrban energy struggles in Berlin and London/
260			_bSage, _c2020.
300			_aVol. 52, Issue 6, 2020 ( 1093–1111 p.)
520			_aIn this paper, we argue that it is generative to link struggles around access to, control over, and the transformation of urban energy systems to the imaginary of the right to the city; and we explore the conceptual, empirical and political contributions of this connection. Our paper starts with two main questions: (1) what do we learn from reading attempts to reclaim urban energy systems from a right to the city perspective? (2) What can this analysis add to debates around the right to the city? We make two main arguments from our empirical engagements with initiatives seeking to remunicipalise urban energy systems in Berlin and London, each of which is premised upon calls for more just, democratic and ecologically sustainable forms of energy supply. First, we argue that these struggles need to transcend concerns around energy infrastructure to raise broader questions around the democratisation of urban space. Second, we contend that appropriating long-lasting urban infrastructure requires the creation of new and durable forms of democratic institutions, providing insights into the notion of self-management (autogestion) beyond more spontaneous and fleeting forms of protest and uprising addressed in much of right to the city literature. Overall, the paper hopes to put the question of autogestion and related strategies at the centre of conversations around right to the city moving forward.
700			_aAngel, James _957539
700			_aNaumann, Matthias _957540
773	0		_08877 _917103 _dLondon Pion Ltd. 2010 _tEnvironment and planning A _x1472-3409
856			_uhttps://doi.org/10.1177/0308518X19881164
942			_2ddc _cEJR
999			_c14491 _d14491