A big thank you to all the contributors and collaborators who made this possible.

You can explore all the 20 articles here:
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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.

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.

3/ A special thanks to my co-conveners for the Dawn of Solar PV special issue workshop at the university of Stavanger--@sidsareen.bsky.social, Steven Wolf, and James McCarthy--and all the workshop participants for their valuable inputs.

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.

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.

3/ We argue that these narratives help legitimize top-down policymaking, emphasize quantitative targets over qualitative outcomes, and favor utility-scale solar plants over more localized forms of deployment

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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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