Changes to the material and social systems that underpin energy infrastructures are inextricably linked to energy justice concerns, and the timeframes of those changes significantly affect their outcomes. Temporal aspects of energy initiatives and their impacts are thus an important site for examining emergent public views on new energy proposals, inequality, and energy justice. We propose urgency is a particularly rich concept through which to study (i) the justice and socioenvironmental implications of energy systems and technological change and (ii) how people make sense of contested energy timeframes. Here, we present findings from a series of public deliberation workshops held in the United States and United Kingdom to discuss projected impacts of shale oil and gas extraction by hydraulic fracturing. We encountered critical similarities across sites, as in widespread public resistance to issue framings that foreground urgency-based claims in support of their objectives. Participants assessed energy initiatives with particular reference to temporality and urgency, and we argue these views raise justice concerns regarding distribution, the creation of environmental inequalities, public participation, and recognition. We also suggest a focus on urgency provides fresh perspectives on justice issues surrounding the speed and direction of technological development in general and of energy transitions in particular.

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Urgency in energy justice: Contestation and time in prospective shale extraction in the United States and United Kingdom

This special issue of The Review of Education, Pedagogy & Cultural Studies highlights work being done in cultural studies today by scholars located in Canadian universities. There is now a long tra...

Introduction: New Cultural Spaces: Cultural Studies in Canada Today

While the title of this special issue of the Review of Education, Pedagogy and Cultural Studies—‘‘What’s the Matter? Cultural Studies and the Question of Urgency’’—is rather large in scale, its history is quite a bit more modest. It began with deliberations for a conference theme. In Fall 2006, a small group of faculty members and graduate students, affiliated with the Canadian Association of Cultural Studies (CACS) at the University of Alberta (U of A), gathered to brainstorm ideas for our second national conference. Notes from that planning meeting indicate that ideas for the conference were diverse, as we put ourselves to the task of imagining a conference theme that could be inclusive (enough) yet allow for a specificity of substantive conversations, local and yet not geopolitically bound, inviting and generative yet not so restrictive that only a small group of scholars need apply. Words scrawled on whiteboards, articulated by arrows that went this way and that, as other words were tossed into the room in half-finished sentences, constituted the symbolic cloth from which clear phrasing finally took shape around the notion of cultural studies and=in crisis. We recall this sketch of an idea here, because it indexes something of what some of us were grappling with more generally: how to think through a complexity of tensions and possibilities when ‘‘urgency’’ and ‘‘cultural studies’’ are thought in relation. Reading back now, we would give expression to that something along the following lines: many of us feel ourselves leaning into precarious and contingent modes of critique as scholars, modes of The Review of Education, Pedagogy, and Cultural Studies, 31:98–106, 2009 Copyright # Taylor & Francis Group, LLC ISSN: 1071-4413 print=1556-3022 online DOI: 10.1080/10714410902827101

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