Stencil adventures: Learning from political ecology to advance energy justice

Abstract

This commentary engages Festus Boamah's article calling to ‘discipline’ energy justice (EJ) scholarship more centrally in human geography. While I commend the ambition and provocation of the article, I raise several cautions about attempting to house EJ in a specific discipline, geography or otherwise. Rather than disciplining EJ, I recommend that EJ can learn from the experiences of political ecology, which is a heterogenous community of practice united by shared commitments to making the world a better place. Boamah's ‘normativity stencil adventures’ can be a powerful means for advancing both EJ and political ecology as they afford scholars an opportunity to analyze the intricacies of the places where injustices occur and to build solidarity across places to collectively advance justice and equity for all.