Clean Energy vis-à-vis Capital Extraction

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🔬研究者:エネルギー移行の社会的影響を研究する者にとって、資本主義的論理と環境正義の緊張関係を示す事例として有用。

🏢実務担当者:再生可能エネルギープロジェクトを計画する企業は、地域社会との対話の重要性を認識するための示唆を得られる。

🏛政策担当者:エネルギー政策立案者は、移行プロセスにおける社会的受容性と環境正義を考慮する必要性を認識すべき。

This article examines the paradoxical aspects of the Arjuno-Welirang geothermal project in Batu City, which, due to its exploitative nature, has the potential to threaten the availability of springs. Theoretically, the study employs Social Conflict Theory (SCT) and a political economy approach to analyse how energy transition projects operate according to the logic of capital accumulation. Using a qualitative case study method involving field observations of residents' advocacy against the project in Batu City, as well as a literature review, the study finds that the Arjuno-Welirang project is deeply entrenched in the dynamics of an infrastructure alliance (comprising the state, financial institutions and corporations), which functions as a specific manifestation of a dominant social alliance. This alliance strategically utilises the narrative of a green energy transition to facilitate an extractive project that endangers the material foundation of local communities. In response, the mobilisation of Batu residents constitutes anticipatory grassroots resistance organised as a material struggle to defend their ecological commons and water resources from the monopolistic threats posed by energy capitalism.

• openalex https://doi.org/10.22146/pcd.v14i1.26878first seen 2026-07-31 05:20:17 · last seen 2026-07-31 05:20:46