Contested Energy Futures

Stuart Rosewarne has established a rich research record in the field of environmental and ecological political economy. His research has been published in international journals and the book Climate Action Upsurge: The Ethnography of Climate Movement Politics published in collaboration in 2014 on the development of the climate movement politics was well received. The collaboratively-researched and authored Beyond Coal Rush: A Turning Point for Global Energy and Climate Policy, which is a comparative study of reliance on coal in Australia, Germany and India was published in 2020. Stuart has led the development of the Department of Political Economy at the University of Sydney as one of the world’s leading research centres for studies on the political economy of climate change. He designed and lectures in the long-running innovative program on multi-disciplinary based Political Economy of the Environment’.

• Introduction: Capturing the renewable energy surge in Australia: from climate politics to energy democracy?.- Chapter 1: The demise of the coal industrial complex: the renewable energy surge.- Chapter 2: Energy capital: transitioning from coal-fired energy and new accumulation dynamics.- Chapter 3: Households’ embrace of renewable energy: the birth of the prosumer.- Chapter 4: The new energy dynamic: engaging capital and the metamorphosis of energy capital corporations into gentailers.- Chapter 5: Power generation in transition: challenging energy capital from below?.-Conclusion.