A New Carrier for Old Assumptions?

Imagined Publics and Their Justice Implications for Hydrogen Development in the Netherlands

Preprint (2022)

Authors

T.S.G.H. Rodhouse Organisation & Governance -

Eefje Cuppen Universiteit Leiden

A. Correljé Economics of Technology and Innovation -

U. Pesch

Research Group

Organisation & Governance () (TU Delft)

Hydrogen Energy justice Public participation Policymaking Imagined publics

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Published Date

2022

Language

English

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Faculty

Technology, Policy and Management

Department

Multi Actor Systems

Research Group

Organisation & Governance

Abstract

This paper presents an anticipatory approach to energy justice by focusing on the nascent justice and inclusion implications of imagined publics in vision documents for the hydrogen transition in the Netherlands. Based on the results of an interpretive qualitative content analysis of twenty-one vision documents, we develop the thesis that publics, in their various roles and compositions and with their diverse demands, are not always acknowledged nor correctly represented in the hydrogen transition. Non-recognition and misrecognition of publics in these pre-policy documents is problematic and unjust and can result in additional distributive and procedural justice issues once imagined publics become performed in and by policy implementation, technology, and infrastructure. Recommendations for a more just and inclusive hydrogen transition are provided.