Johannes Kester
Biographic Data
| ID | 1155833 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Johannes Kester |
| GIVEN NAMES | Johannes |
| FAMILY NAME | Kester |
| SIGNATURE | KESTER J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Aarhus University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-5384-0247 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 16 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 179 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 16 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 7 |
The scare behind energy security: Four conceptualisations of scarcity and a never-ending search for abundance
Novel or normal? Electric vehicles and the dialectic transition of Nordic automobility
Between hope, hype, and hell: Electric mobility and the interplay of fear and desire in sustainability transitions
Conceptualizations and articulations of ‘the future’ play a persistent and important role in discussions about technology adoption and the broader domain of sustainability transitions. The Sociology of Expectations, part of the transitions and science and technology studies literature, specifically focusses on the performative role that desirable expectations play in the development and marketing of a technology. In this paper we argue that these…
Not more but different: A comment on the transitions research agenda
From Flying Cars to Tesla: Examining the Personal Automobile Preferences of Primary Schoolchildren in Denmark and the Netherlands
The need to study current and future car perceptions and electric vehicle (EV) knowledge of children is not directly obvious, but they are a core group of passengers and they are future potential buyers. Moreover, many of an adult’s values and worldviews around energy and mobility develop during childhood and later extend into corresponding consumption patterns. Furthermore, as children are not directly concerned with the choices, information and…
Security in transition(s): The low-level security politics of electric vehicle range anxiety
By drawing on critical security studies in the context of a sociotechnical transition, this article calls for more attention to the presence and sometimes alternative use of mostly unobserved security practices in the materialization of everyday consumer goods and services. This call is illustrated through a discussion of the phenomenon of range anxiety and the intra-action between drivers of electric vehicles (EVs), designers, and algorithms tha…
Rethinking the spatiality of Nordic electric vehicles and their popularity in urban environments: Moving beyond the city
With a global transition to electric vehicles (EVs) slowly gaining traction, it is expedient to move the debate to issues connected to geography, space, and place. One of these emerging issues is the uptake of EVs in rural areas. This paper provides a spatial state of affairs in the Nordic region and it explores how EVs are perceived and argued to fit within rural-suburban-urban categories by users and potential adopters. To do so, it draws on a …
Income, political affiliation, urbanism and geography in stated preferences for electric vehicles (EVs) and vehicle-to-grid (V2G) technologies in Northern Europe
Despite a potentially revolutionary shift towards electric mobility in the passenger vehicle market, the academic and policymaking communities remain wedded to a techno-economic paradigm that may not fully appreciate deeper social and geographic elements of a transition to electric vehicles. In this paper, based primarily on bivariate statistical analysis as well as a hierarchical regression analysis of a survey distributed to >5000 respondents a…
The energy security paradox: Rethinking energy (in)security in the United States and China
It might be personal bias, but any book on energy security that moves beyond the question of what energy security is, to ‘how energy is understood as a security issue, and what these understandings do’ (p. 1), jumps to the top of my reading pile. Jonna Nyman offers such a contribution in her well-written and highly accessible book The energy security paradox. Based on a novel reading of the practice turn in International Relations and critical se…
Contested visions and sociotechnical expectations of electric mobility and vehicle-to-grid innovation in five Nordic countries
Conspicuous diffusion: Theorizing how status drives innovation in electric mobility
Fear and loathing of electric vehicles: The reactionary rhetoric of range anxiety
“Range anxiety,” defined as the psychological anxiety a consumer experiences in response to the limited range of an electric vehicle, continues to be labelled and presented as one of the most pressing barriers to their mainstream diffusion. As a result, academia, policymakers and even industry have focused on addressing the range anxiety barrier in order to accelerate adoption. Much literature recognizes that range anxiety is increasingly psychol…
The demographics of decarbonizing transport: The influence of gender, education, occupation, age, and household size on electric mobility preferences in the Nordic region
Many researchers, policymakers and other stakeholders have explored and supported efforts to transition towards more sustainable forms of low-carbon mobility. Often, discussion will flow from a narrow view of consumer perceptions surrounding passenger vehicles—presuming that they act in rationalist, instrumental, and predictable patterns. In this paper, we hold that a better understanding of the social and demographic perceptions of electric vehi…
Energy Injustice and Nordic Electric Mobility: Inequality, Elitism, and Externalities in the Electrification of Vehicle-to-Grid (V2G) Transport
Governing electric vehicles: Mobilizing Electricity to Secure Automobility
This paper nuances the claim that electric vehicles offer a similar form of automobility as petrol cars through an analysis of the (im)mobility and circulations that enable them. With circulation as its referent object, it offers a structured approach to the mobility-security nexus by identifying seven heuristic dimensions on which circulations are governed through security assemblages. These overlapping but analytically separable dimensions are …
Energy security and human security in a Dutch gasquake context: A case of localized performative politics
From the late 1980s, the natural gas extraction in the Netherlands has experienced an increasing number of ever stronger gasquakes (induced earthquakes due to gas extraction). This paper offers a security analysis of the accompanying debate on the material consequences and organization of the gas extraction between the threatened local population, the knowledge institutes analyzing the gasquakes, and the government and extraction industry. This p…
Energy Injustice and Nordic Electric Mobility: Inequality, Elitism, and Externalities in the Electrification of Vehicle-to-Grid (V2G) Transport
The demographics of decarbonizing transport: The influence of gender, education, occupation, age, and household size on electric mobility preferences in the Nordic region
Many researchers, policymakers and other stakeholders have explored and supported efforts to transition towards more sustainable forms of low-carbon mobility. Often, discussion will flow from a narrow view of consumer perceptions surrounding passenger vehicles—presuming that they act in rationalist, instrumental, and predictable patterns. In this paper, we hold that a better understanding of the social and demographic perceptions of electric vehi…
Contested visions and sociotechnical expectations of electric mobility and vehicle-to-grid innovation in five Nordic countries
Income, political affiliation, urbanism and geography in stated preferences for electric vehicles (EVs) and vehicle-to-grid (V2G) technologies in Northern Europe
Despite a potentially revolutionary shift towards electric mobility in the passenger vehicle market, the academic and policymaking communities remain wedded to a techno-economic paradigm that may not fully appreciate deeper social and geographic elements of a transition to electric vehicles. In this paper, based primarily on bivariate statistical analysis as well as a hierarchical regression analysis of a survey distributed to >5000 respondents a…
Not more but different: A comment on the transitions research agenda
Between hope, hype, and hell: Electric mobility and the interplay of fear and desire in sustainability transitions
Conceptualizations and articulations of ‘the future’ play a persistent and important role in discussions about technology adoption and the broader domain of sustainability transitions. The Sociology of Expectations, part of the transitions and science and technology studies literature, specifically focusses on the performative role that desirable expectations play in the development and marketing of a technology. In this paper we argue that these…
Fear and loathing of electric vehicles: The reactionary rhetoric of range anxiety
“Range anxiety,” defined as the psychological anxiety a consumer experiences in response to the limited range of an electric vehicle, continues to be labelled and presented as one of the most pressing barriers to their mainstream diffusion. As a result, academia, policymakers and even industry have focused on addressing the range anxiety barrier in order to accelerate adoption. Much literature recognizes that range anxiety is increasingly psychol…
Conspicuous diffusion: Theorizing how status drives innovation in electric mobility
Governing electric vehicles: Mobilizing Electricity to Secure Automobility
This paper nuances the claim that electric vehicles offer a similar form of automobility as petrol cars through an analysis of the (im)mobility and circulations that enable them. With circulation as its referent object, it offers a structured approach to the mobility-security nexus by identifying seven heuristic dimensions on which circulations are governed through security assemblages. These overlapping but analytically separable dimensions are …
Novel or normal? Electric vehicles and the dialectic transition of Nordic automobility
Rethinking the spatiality of Nordic electric vehicles and their popularity in urban environments: Moving beyond the city
With a global transition to electric vehicles (EVs) slowly gaining traction, it is expedient to move the debate to issues connected to geography, space, and place. One of these emerging issues is the uptake of EVs in rural areas. This paper provides a spatial state of affairs in the Nordic region and it explores how EVs are perceived and argued to fit within rural-suburban-urban categories by users and potential adopters. To do so, it draws on a …
Energy security and human security in a Dutch gasquake context: A case of localized performative politics
From the late 1980s, the natural gas extraction in the Netherlands has experienced an increasing number of ever stronger gasquakes (induced earthquakes due to gas extraction). This paper offers a security analysis of the accompanying debate on the material consequences and organization of the gas extraction between the threatened local population, the knowledge institutes analyzing the gasquakes, and the government and extraction industry. This p…
From Flying Cars to Tesla: Examining the Personal Automobile Preferences of Primary Schoolchildren in Denmark and the Netherlands
The need to study current and future car perceptions and electric vehicle (EV) knowledge of children is not directly obvious, but they are a core group of passengers and they are future potential buyers. Moreover, many of an adult’s values and worldviews around energy and mobility develop during childhood and later extend into corresponding consumption patterns. Furthermore, as children are not directly concerned with the choices, information and…
The scare behind energy security: Four conceptualisations of scarcity and a never-ending search for abundance
Security in transition(s): The low-level security politics of electric vehicle range anxiety
By drawing on critical security studies in the context of a sociotechnical transition, this article calls for more attention to the presence and sometimes alternative use of mostly unobserved security practices in the materialization of everyday consumer goods and services. This call is illustrated through a discussion of the phenomenon of range anxiety and the intra-action between drivers of electric vehicles (EVs), designers, and algorithms tha…
Energy security and human security in a Dutch gasquake context: A case of localized performative politics
From the late 1980s, the natural gas extraction in the Netherlands has experienced an increasing number of ever stronger gasquakes (induced earthquakes due to gas extraction). This paper offers a security analysis of the accompanying debate on the material consequences and organization of the gas extraction between the threatened local population, the knowledge institutes analyzing the gasquakes, and the government and extraction industry. This p…
Fear and loathing of electric vehicles: The reactionary rhetoric of range anxiety
“Range anxiety,” defined as the psychological anxiety a consumer experiences in response to the limited range of an electric vehicle, continues to be labelled and presented as one of the most pressing barriers to their mainstream diffusion. As a result, academia, policymakers and even industry have focused on addressing the range anxiety barrier in order to accelerate adoption. Much literature recognizes that range anxiety is increasingly psychol…
The demographics of decarbonizing transport: The influence of gender, education, occupation, age, and household size on electric mobility preferences in the Nordic region
Many researchers, policymakers and other stakeholders have explored and supported efforts to transition towards more sustainable forms of low-carbon mobility. Often, discussion will flow from a narrow view of consumer perceptions surrounding passenger vehicles—presuming that they act in rationalist, instrumental, and predictable patterns. In this paper, we hold that a better understanding of the social and demographic perceptions of electric vehi…
Energy Injustice and Nordic Electric Mobility: Inequality, Elitism, and Externalities in the Electrification of Vehicle-to-Grid (V2G) Transport
Governing electric vehicles: Mobilizing Electricity to Secure Automobility
This paper nuances the claim that electric vehicles offer a similar form of automobility as petrol cars through an analysis of the (im)mobility and circulations that enable them. With circulation as its referent object, it offers a structured approach to the mobility-security nexus by identifying seven heuristic dimensions on which circulations are governed through security assemblages. These overlapping but analytically separable dimensions are …
From Flying Cars to Tesla: Examining the Personal Automobile Preferences of Primary Schoolchildren in Denmark and the Netherlands
The need to study current and future car perceptions and electric vehicle (EV) knowledge of children is not directly obvious, but they are a core group of passengers and they are future potential buyers. Moreover, many of an adult’s values and worldviews around energy and mobility develop during childhood and later extend into corresponding consumption patterns. Furthermore, as children are not directly concerned with the choices, information and…
Security in transition(s): The low-level security politics of electric vehicle range anxiety
By drawing on critical security studies in the context of a sociotechnical transition, this article calls for more attention to the presence and sometimes alternative use of mostly unobserved security practices in the materialization of everyday consumer goods and services. This call is illustrated through a discussion of the phenomenon of range anxiety and the intra-action between drivers of electric vehicles (EVs), designers, and algorithms tha…
Rethinking the spatiality of Nordic electric vehicles and their popularity in urban environments: Moving beyond the city
With a global transition to electric vehicles (EVs) slowly gaining traction, it is expedient to move the debate to issues connected to geography, space, and place. One of these emerging issues is the uptake of EVs in rural areas. This paper provides a spatial state of affairs in the Nordic region and it explores how EVs are perceived and argued to fit within rural-suburban-urban categories by users and potential adopters. To do so, it draws on a …
Income, political affiliation, urbanism and geography in stated preferences for electric vehicles (EVs) and vehicle-to-grid (V2G) technologies in Northern Europe
Despite a potentially revolutionary shift towards electric mobility in the passenger vehicle market, the academic and policymaking communities remain wedded to a techno-economic paradigm that may not fully appreciate deeper social and geographic elements of a transition to electric vehicles. In this paper, based primarily on bivariate statistical analysis as well as a hierarchical regression analysis of a survey distributed to >5000 respondents a…
The energy security paradox: Rethinking energy (in)security in the United States and China
It might be personal bias, but any book on energy security that moves beyond the question of what energy security is, to ‘how energy is understood as a security issue, and what these understandings do’ (p. 1), jumps to the top of my reading pile. Jonna Nyman offers such a contribution in her well-written and highly accessible book The energy security paradox. Based on a novel reading of the practice turn in International Relations and critical se…
Contested visions and sociotechnical expectations of electric mobility and vehicle-to-grid innovation in five Nordic countries
Conspicuous diffusion: Theorizing how status drives innovation in electric mobility
Novel or normal? Electric vehicles and the dialectic transition of Nordic automobility
Between hope, hype, and hell: Electric mobility and the interplay of fear and desire in sustainability transitions
Conceptualizations and articulations of ‘the future’ play a persistent and important role in discussions about technology adoption and the broader domain of sustainability transitions. The Sociology of Expectations, part of the transitions and science and technology studies literature, specifically focusses on the performative role that desirable expectations play in the development and marketing of a technology. In this paper we argue that these…
Not more but different: A comment on the transitions research agenda
The scare behind energy security: Four conceptualisations of scarcity and a never-ending search for abundance
Political science (15 works) · Economics (10 works) · Sociology (10 works) · Electric Vehicles and Infrastructure (9 works) · Engineering (8 works) · Law (8 works) · Energy and Environment Impacts (7 works) · Law (6 works) · Business (5 works) · Energy, Environment, and Transportation Policies (5 works)