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Toward a neo-Gramscian interpretation of “social licence” : the case of fossil fuel divestment
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Blondeel, Mathieu (2022) Toward a neo-Gramscian interpretation of “social licence” : the case of fossil fuel divestment. In: Wood, Geoffrey and Górski, Jędrzej and Gokce, Gokce, (eds.) The Palgrave Handbook of Social License to Operate and Energy Transitions. Palgrave Studies in Energy Transitions . Palgrave Macmillan. ISBN 9783030747251
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Official URL: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-74725-1_10-1
Abstract
The international fossil fuel divestment campaign is increasingly successfully promoting a new “anti-fossil fuel norm” (AFFN), according to which investors ought to withdraw investments from fossil fuel (or carbon-intensive) assets and reinvest in more sustainable, climate-friendly alternatives. At the outset of this campaign, in the early 2010s, its self-proclaimed objective was to take away the fossil fuel industry’s “social licence to operate” (SLO). This chapter offers a neo-Gramscian view as to how a radical divestment campaign has sought to delegitimize the role of fossil fuels and the industry. The neo-Gramscian interpretation of SLO provides a rich understanding of the discursive, relational, and material aspects of power in energy transitions. It shows how societal consent to elite practices – and not just the latter’s coercive power – is crucial in successfully maintaining or transitioning away from a fossil fuel-based society. The chapter traces the origins and analyzes the current state of the divestment campaign and the norm it promotes. It concludes that the campaign’s original “counter-hegemonic” challenge has been accommodated to fit conventional narratives and has lost its most radical demands and elements and thus its most transformational potential.
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Subjects: | H Social Sciences > HD Industries. Land use. Labor H Social Sciences > HD Industries. Land use. Labor > HD61 Risk Management H Social Sciences > HG Finance J Political Science > JA Political science (General) |
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Divisions: | Faculty of Social Sciences > Warwick Business School > Global Energy Faculty of Social Sciences > Warwick Business School > Strategy & International Business Faculty of Social Sciences > Warwick Business School |
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Series Name: | Palgrave Studies in Energy Transitions | ||||||
Publisher: | Palgrave Macmillan | ||||||
ISBN: | 9783030747251 | ||||||
Book Title: | The Palgrave Handbook of Social License to Operate and Energy Transitions | ||||||
Editor: | Wood, Geoffrey and Górski, Jędrzej and Gokce, Gokce | ||||||
Official Date: | 28 October 2022 | ||||||
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Number of Pages: | 24 | ||||||
DOI: | 10.1007/978-3-030-74725-1_10-1 | ||||||
Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||||
Publication Status: | Published | ||||||
Access rights to Published version: | Restricted or Subscription Access | ||||||
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