Sociomaterial Solar Waste: Afterlives and Lives After of Small Solar
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Open Access
- 19 October 2019
- book chapter
- Published by Springer Nature
- p. 155-173
Abstract
The problem of solar waste from off-grid technologies is attracting increasing attention. This chapter argues that solar waste represents multiple matters of concern; it is a problem of pollution, resource, and social ruin all together. It suggests that while an energy justice framework is well suited to identify issues of distributional, procedural, and recognition justice in relation to solar waste—what we refer to as “afterlives”—there is a need to engage with postcolonial theories of ethics in order to better grapple with different kinds of social ruins solar waste may represent—what we refer to as ‘lives after’.Keywords
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- Technische Universiteit Eindhoven
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