Publication Type

Journal Article

Version

publishedVersion

Publication Date

5-2025

Abstract

New resource storage arrangements are proliferating rapidly both in terms of physical infrastructures-for the storage of things like "clean" energy, nuclear waste, carbon dioxide, fresh water, and data-and as part of a set of discursive moves that reinforce a vision of a near future world in which problems of climate change mitigation and adaptation in particular (but also issues like energy security, water security, industry growth, etc.) are solved through eco-modernist techno-fixes. This Symposium sketches the contours of a framework we term political ecologies of storage. In doing so, we treat storage as both a potent imaginary and a concrete arrangement of infrastructures and (lively) materials, developing storage as a critical analytic for examining a diverse range of resource configurations. The political ecology of storage highlights the ways in which different storage arrangements are both conditions and consequences of specific political economic dynamics, while at the same time inextricable from multi-scalar physical environments in which they are embedded.

Keywords

Storage, political ecology, climate change, decarbonisation, metabolism, circulation

Discipline

Environmental Sciences | Physical and Environmental Geography | Social and Behavioral Sciences

Research Areas

Integrative Research Areas

Publication

Antipode: A Radical Journal of Geography

First Page

1

Last Page

13

ISSN

0066-4812

Identifier

10.1111/anti.70033

Publisher

Wiley

Copyright Owner and License

Authors-CC-BY

Creative Commons License

Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License.

Additional URL

https://doi.org10.1111/anti.70033

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