Shayan Shokrgozar
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☀️ Ph.D. Candidate at the Centre for Climate and Energy Transformation @uibcet.bsky.social
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'"Fine, you made your energy, but how much did we have to pay for this?" Embracing situated energy ecologies for pluriversal futures' by @shayanshokrgozar.bsky.social & @sidsareen.bsky.social

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Screenshot of a paper abstract in Geo: Geography and Environment by Shayan Shokrgozar & Siddharth Sareen (2025) entitled: '"Fine, you made your energy, but how much did we have to pay for this?": Embracing situated energy ecologies for pluriveral futures' with an orange banner at the top.

Growing energy and material throughput, climate change targets and political economic evolution have spurred rapid deployment of lower-carbon energy infrastructures. Many of these developments have relied on ‘cheap nature’, often covering agropastoral and indigenous lands, which raises questions about the implications of energy transitions for non-industrial lifeways. This article explores the onto-epistemological foundations that comprise the emergent energy transitions paradigm. Anchored in ethnographic findings from fieldwork in Rajasthan (India), we identify naturalism as the dominant ontological basis of knowledge production in global energy policies and examine its imaginaries and practices. We draw on Philippe Descola's ontological modes of identification to question universalism and demonstrate its perpetuation through energy transition practices. These approaches overlook socioecological complexity, a gap starkly showcased by the solar energy rollout in agropastoral Rajasthan, with Jaisalmer district as its epicentre. To overcome these limitations, we propose and empirically test the Situated Energy Ecologies principles, which combine (a) a post-productivist approach based on a commitment to energy sufficiency; (b) a commitment to ontological and epistemic recognition, to better capture place-based ways of knowing and being; and (c) autonomous practices based on prefigurative politics and agonism. By integrating a wider array of human experiences, this tripartite heuristic fosters a pluralistic understanding of energy-society relations towards emancipatory engagement.
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I’m grateful to the many interlocutors in India who shared their time and insight with us, and to friends and colleagues who read and commented on drafts along the way.
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Drawing on political ecology, energy geographies, and agrarian studies, Siddharth Sareen and I examine how solar energy rollout in rural Rajasthan is foreclosing agrarian lifeworlds in favor of industrial ones—manifesting, we suggest, as a form of colonial modernity.
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3/ A special thanks to my co-conveners for the Dawn of Solar PV special issue workshop at the university of [email protected], Steven Wolf, and James McCarthy--and all the workshop participants for their valuable inputs.
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2/ The article is inspired by a few years of conversations with friends, colleagues, co-authors, and many generous interlocutors in India along the way.
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Akademisk mobilitet er ikke like tilgjengelig for alle 🌍 her er essayet mitt, skrevet sammen med min kollega @iamsubina.bsky.social
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2/ In the article, Nikki Theeuwes, Veronica Ahonen, and I explore the complexities of academic travel and carbon emissions.

Using cases from Norway and the Netherlands, we show that shifting to lower-carbon travel isn't just about making different choices—it's a political process.
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In the article, we dive into the dominant political narratives shaping Solar India—"solar nationalism" and "win-win techno-solutionism"⚡️🌍

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PhD position available at @uibcet.bsky.social - in our project ECOBUDGETS: Actionable budgets for sustainable climate and nature governance, financed by the NFR. Have a strong social science background, Norwegian/English language skills, eco-interest? Apply! www.jobbnorge.no/nn-no/ledige...
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Congrats to Tvergastein Journal on releasing issue #18 🎉 Thanks for sending us a copy @uibcet.bsky.social! Keep up the awesome work 👏
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Congratulations, @sidsareen.bsky.social 🥂
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A huge congratulations to CET Professor II @sidsareen.bsky.social A well deserved winner of the Nils Kim prize for his work in environmental social sciences. Sid is an integral part of CET and we are so proud of our long time collaborator!