Sociomaterial solar waste: afterlives and lives after of small solar

Ankit Kumar; Britta  Turner

doi:10.1007/978-3-030-24021-9_8

Sociomaterial solar waste: afterlives and lives after of small solar

Ankit Kumar
, Britta Turner

Technology, Innovation & Society

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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'.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Energy Justice Across Borders
Editors	Gunter Bombaerts, Kirsten Jenkins, Yekeen Sanusi, Wang Guoyu
Place of Publication	Berlin
Publisher	Springer
Chapter	8
Pages	155-173
Number of pages	19
ISBN (Electronic)	978-3-030-24021-9
ISBN (Print)	978-3-030-24020-2
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-24021-9_8
Publication status	Published - 2019

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SDG 7 Affordable and Clean Energy

Keywords

solar
Off-grid
energy access
Waste
solar waste
postcolonialism
energy justice
energy ethics
socio-material
India
Kenya

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