IRENA as a glocal actor: pathways towards energy governmentality |
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Authors: | Franziska Müller |
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Institution: | Department of Social Sciences, University of Kassel, Nora-Platiel Str. 1, Kassel 34127, Germany |
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Abstract: | For decades renewable energy has remained a “blind spot” within the sphere of international energy governance. The existing institutional network is highly fragmented, resulting in a myriad of international organizations, which all claim to deal with energy issues, yet do not focus on renewables on a global scale. Since 2009, IRENA, the International Renewable Energy Agency, seeks to fill up this vacuum, thereby creating a new (and maybe more Southern-led) political arena for governing renewable energy issues. This article focuses on IRENA’s role as a changemaker in the sphere of global energy governance by investigating IRENA’s governance practices and contributions to knowledge production. |
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Keywords: | global energy governance international organizations governmentality renewable energy |
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