Antje Bruns
Biographic Data
| ID | 3590106 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Antje Bruns |
| GIVEN NAMES | Antje |
| FAMILY NAME | Bruns |
| SIGNATURE | BRUNS A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Universität Trier |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-9266-5530 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 18 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 62 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 18 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2009 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
The production of unequal energyscapes: Contested colonial spaces for tar sands development in Canada
This is an accepted article with a DOI pre-assigned that is not yet published.This article further develops the concept of energyscapes to examine the production, governance, and transformation of socio-material spaces for tar sands extraction, distribution, and consumption in Canada. We argue that energyscapes is a helpful concept to understand the key but understudied role of competing material-discursive practices in shaping tar sands spaces. …
(Un)Menschliche Urbanität: Schwarze Geographien im Zeitalter des Planetaren
Aktuelle Debatten um planetare Transformationsprozesse unterscheiden regelmäßig zwischen nicht-menschlichen und menschlichen Akteur_innen, ohne die Kategorie des Menschen in ihrer räumlich-diskursiven Konstruktion und Reproduktion zu hinterfragen. Wir argumentieren, dass Menschsein keine selbstverständliche Kategorie ist, sondern eine umkämpfte räumlich-diskursive Praxis. Inspiriert von den Black Geographies und dem antikolonialen Denken Sylvia W…
Peripherien, Konflikte, Transformationen – Perspektiven einer kritischen Energiegeographie
This introduction presents the fields of peripheries, conflicts and transformations as core topics of critical energy geographies. These fields point to different ways how the provision of energy is interwoven with social inequalities and uneven spatial development. Tackling the relations between energy technology and social power, the contributions to this Theme Issue highlight how power and resistance unfold in different spatial contexts and ar…
Whose Knowledge Counts? Unpacking the Uneven Geographies and Politics of Knowledge Co-Production in Ipbes
The Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES) plays a critical role in environmental governance by synthesizing knowledge for policy-makers. In this context, the co-production of knowledge among scientists, indigenous knowledge holders, and societal actors is increasingly important. Despite inclusive goals, the organization often overlooks how uneven geographies and power relations shape collaborativ…
Energy Poverty and the Proliferation of Heterogeneous Infrastructure Configurations in Accra: Implications for Urban Energy Governance in African Cities
Stadtplanung als koloniale Praxis und alltägliche Praktiken der urbanen Transformation
Antje Bruns und Toni Adscheid widmen sich in diesem Beitrag den stillen und flüchtigen Praktiken, welche Auswege aus den räumlichen Festlegungen und rassifizierten Praktiken der Stadtplanung eröffnen. Durch einen Fokus auf Accra und London, zeichnen die Autor*innen die Verwobenheit dieser zwei Metropolen des Britischen Empire in die Geschichten und Geographien des Kolonialismus nach. Hierbei wird deutlich, dass in beiden Kontexten, die historisch…
First-Class but not for Long: Heterogeneous Infrastructure and Water Bricolage in Accra’s Kiosk Compounds
This paper explores the micro-geographies of water access in the context of a first-class residential neighborhood of Accra served by the city’s networked infrastructure. We focus our analyses on how water is accessed and supplied to six kiosk compounds—privately owned, walled plots of land provisionally inhabited by urban dwellers living in kiosk-like structures with the (tacit) knowledge of the plot-owners. We document how kiosk inhabitants acc…
Working the boundary: Science–policy interactions and uneven knowledge politics in Ipbes
The rising demand for policy-relevant knowledge has supported the emergence of global boundary organizations at the science–policy interface. By synthesizing environmental knowledge for policy-makers, boundary organizations influence how we know and govern sustainability challenges. Therefore, it is essential to better understand what happens in and through these organizations. This paper examines the very practices that configure science–policy …
Contested notions of energy justice and energy futures in struggles over tar sands development in British Columbia, Canada
This paper explores the articulation and mobilization of competing notions of energy (in) justice and energy future visions in the struggle over the Trans Mountain pipeline expansion project (TMX) in British Columbia, Canada. The TMX is a controversial fossil fuel project because it leads to the appropriation of First Nations lands, gender violence, and the unequal distribution of the socio-environmental costs of tar sands operations. Despite the…
Nexus disrupted: Lived realities and the water-energy-food nexus from an infrastructure perspective
In recent years, the water-energy-food nexus gained traction in science and policy debates to address the relationships between water, energy and food sectors. Inspired by Political Ecology thinking, we advocate for a nexus understanding that acknowledges the political nature of the concept and points to lived and experienced nexus realities. We draw on literature from heterogeneous infrastructures, giving attention to the socio-material entangle…
Conflicts, cooperation and experimentation: Analysing the politics of urban water through Accra's heterogeneous water supply infrastructure
In this paper, we analyse the heterogeneity of water supply infrastructure in Accra, Ghana, to understand the politics of water in cities where infrastructural diversity has always been the norm. We do this by extending the use of heterogeneous infrastructure configurations as a heuristic device, shifting the focus and scale of urban political ecological analyses of infrastructural diversity from users and access to water distributions at city sc…
Environmental justice and the politics of climate change adaptation – the case of Venice
In this intervention, we reflect on the potential of environmental justice and climate justice approaches to reveal the politics of climate change adaptation. Taking the attempts at dealing with extreme flooding events in Venice as an example, we illustrate that different dimensions at the core of the environmental justice concept (distributive and procedural justice and justice as recognition) are helpful to analyse and to politicise climate cha…
Towards Situated Analyses of Uneven Peri‐Urbanisation: An (Urban) Political Ecology Perspective
In this article we develop a novel analytical framework for situated studies of uneven peri‐urbanisation that resist further dividing Marxist and Situated (Urban) Political Ecology. We conceptualise uneven peri‐urbanisation as a process in which access to the resources mobilised for peri‐urban developments, such as water or land, is rendered uneven. In a three‐step approach we suggest, first, describing how peri‐urbanisation unfolds in the case b…
Extreme events and climate adaptation‐mitigation linkages: Understanding low‐carbon transitions in the era of global urbanization
It has become increasingly clear that cities will have to simultaneously undertake both adaptation and mitigation in response to accelerating climate change and the growing demands for meaningful climate action. Here we examine the connections between climate mitigation and climate adaptation, specifically, between low‐carbon energy systems and extreme events. The article specifically addresses the question, how do responses to extreme climate ri…
In Search of a Decolonial Urban Transformation
We ask whether the WBGU report Humanity on the Move , as a major catalyst for urban sustainability science and agency, reproduces ways of thinking that could ultimately contradict the idea of a Great Transformation towards global sustainability. We contest the dominance of Western knowledge on cities and urbanization which shapes much of the report, even while the urban future is largely unfolding in the Global South. We suggest taking theories f…
From risk to WEF security in the city: The influence of interdependent infrastructural systems
Hydro-social arrangements and paradigmatic change in water governance: An analysis of the sustainable development goals (SDGs)
From State-Centered Decision-Making to Participatory Governance – Planning for Offshore Wind Farms and Implementation of the Water Framework Directive in Northern Germany
Rhetorically at least, environmental policy in the European Union has taken a shift towards more comprehensive, participative, and co-operative forms of governance. Examples are the 2002 Recommendation on Integrated Coastal Zone Management (ICZM) and the 2000 Water Framework Directive (WFD) . Designed to resolve specific environmental problems, they also address the process of decision-making itself. In this paper we ask whether two current plann…
Conflicts, cooperation and experimentation: Analysing the politics of urban water through Accra's heterogeneous water supply infrastructure
In this paper, we analyse the heterogeneity of water supply infrastructure in Accra, Ghana, to understand the politics of water in cities where infrastructural diversity has always been the norm. We do this by extending the use of heterogeneous infrastructure configurations as a heuristic device, shifting the focus and scale of urban political ecological analyses of infrastructural diversity from users and access to water distributions at city sc…
Towards Situated Analyses of Uneven Peri‐Urbanisation: An (Urban) Political Ecology Perspective
In this article we develop a novel analytical framework for situated studies of uneven peri‐urbanisation that resist further dividing Marxist and Situated (Urban) Political Ecology. We conceptualise uneven peri‐urbanisation as a process in which access to the resources mobilised for peri‐urban developments, such as water or land, is rendered uneven. In a three‐step approach we suggest, first, describing how peri‐urbanisation unfolds in the case b…
Nexus disrupted: Lived realities and the water-energy-food nexus from an infrastructure perspective
In recent years, the water-energy-food nexus gained traction in science and policy debates to address the relationships between water, energy and food sectors. Inspired by Political Ecology thinking, we advocate for a nexus understanding that acknowledges the political nature of the concept and points to lived and experienced nexus realities. We draw on literature from heterogeneous infrastructures, giving attention to the socio-material entangle…
Contested notions of energy justice and energy futures in struggles over tar sands development in British Columbia, Canada
This paper explores the articulation and mobilization of competing notions of energy (in) justice and energy future visions in the struggle over the Trans Mountain pipeline expansion project (TMX) in British Columbia, Canada. The TMX is a controversial fossil fuel project because it leads to the appropriation of First Nations lands, gender violence, and the unequal distribution of the socio-environmental costs of tar sands operations. Despite the…
Working the boundary: Science–policy interactions and uneven knowledge politics in Ipbes
The rising demand for policy-relevant knowledge has supported the emergence of global boundary organizations at the science–policy interface. By synthesizing environmental knowledge for policy-makers, boundary organizations influence how we know and govern sustainability challenges. Therefore, it is essential to better understand what happens in and through these organizations. This paper examines the very practices that configure science–policy …
From risk to WEF security in the city: The influence of interdependent infrastructural systems
Hydro-social arrangements and paradigmatic change in water governance: An analysis of the sustainable development goals (SDGs)
Extreme events and climate adaptation‐mitigation linkages: Understanding low‐carbon transitions in the era of global urbanization
It has become increasingly clear that cities will have to simultaneously undertake both adaptation and mitigation in response to accelerating climate change and the growing demands for meaningful climate action. Here we examine the connections between climate mitigation and climate adaptation, specifically, between low‐carbon energy systems and extreme events. The article specifically addresses the question, how do responses to extreme climate ri…
From State-Centered Decision-Making to Participatory Governance – Planning for Offshore Wind Farms and Implementation of the Water Framework Directive in Northern Germany
Rhetorically at least, environmental policy in the European Union has taken a shift towards more comprehensive, participative, and co-operative forms of governance. Examples are the 2002 Recommendation on Integrated Coastal Zone Management (ICZM) and the 2000 Water Framework Directive (WFD) . Designed to resolve specific environmental problems, they also address the process of decision-making itself. In this paper we ask whether two current plann…
Hydro-social arrangements and paradigmatic change in water governance: An analysis of the sustainable development goals (SDGs)
In Search of a Decolonial Urban Transformation
We ask whether the WBGU report Humanity on the Move , as a major catalyst for urban sustainability science and agency, reproduces ways of thinking that could ultimately contradict the idea of a Great Transformation towards global sustainability. We contest the dominance of Western knowledge on cities and urbanization which shapes much of the report, even while the urban future is largely unfolding in the Global South. We suggest taking theories f…
From risk to WEF security in the city: The influence of interdependent infrastructural systems
Extreme events and climate adaptation‐mitigation linkages: Understanding low‐carbon transitions in the era of global urbanization
It has become increasingly clear that cities will have to simultaneously undertake both adaptation and mitigation in response to accelerating climate change and the growing demands for meaningful climate action. Here we examine the connections between climate mitigation and climate adaptation, specifically, between low‐carbon energy systems and extreme events. The article specifically addresses the question, how do responses to extreme climate ri…
Environmental justice and the politics of climate change adaptation – the case of Venice
In this intervention, we reflect on the potential of environmental justice and climate justice approaches to reveal the politics of climate change adaptation. Taking the attempts at dealing with extreme flooding events in Venice as an example, we illustrate that different dimensions at the core of the environmental justice concept (distributive and procedural justice and justice as recognition) are helpful to analyse and to politicise climate cha…
Towards Situated Analyses of Uneven Peri‐Urbanisation: An (Urban) Political Ecology Perspective
In this article we develop a novel analytical framework for situated studies of uneven peri‐urbanisation that resist further dividing Marxist and Situated (Urban) Political Ecology. We conceptualise uneven peri‐urbanisation as a process in which access to the resources mobilised for peri‐urban developments, such as water or land, is rendered uneven. In a three‐step approach we suggest, first, describing how peri‐urbanisation unfolds in the case b…
First-Class but not for Long: Heterogeneous Infrastructure and Water Bricolage in Accra’s Kiosk Compounds
This paper explores the micro-geographies of water access in the context of a first-class residential neighborhood of Accra served by the city’s networked infrastructure. We focus our analyses on how water is accessed and supplied to six kiosk compounds—privately owned, walled plots of land provisionally inhabited by urban dwellers living in kiosk-like structures with the (tacit) knowledge of the plot-owners. We document how kiosk inhabitants acc…
Working the boundary: Science–policy interactions and uneven knowledge politics in Ipbes
The rising demand for policy-relevant knowledge has supported the emergence of global boundary organizations at the science–policy interface. By synthesizing environmental knowledge for policy-makers, boundary organizations influence how we know and govern sustainability challenges. Therefore, it is essential to better understand what happens in and through these organizations. This paper examines the very practices that configure science–policy …
Contested notions of energy justice and energy futures in struggles over tar sands development in British Columbia, Canada
This paper explores the articulation and mobilization of competing notions of energy (in) justice and energy future visions in the struggle over the Trans Mountain pipeline expansion project (TMX) in British Columbia, Canada. The TMX is a controversial fossil fuel project because it leads to the appropriation of First Nations lands, gender violence, and the unequal distribution of the socio-environmental costs of tar sands operations. Despite the…
Nexus disrupted: Lived realities and the water-energy-food nexus from an infrastructure perspective
In recent years, the water-energy-food nexus gained traction in science and policy debates to address the relationships between water, energy and food sectors. Inspired by Political Ecology thinking, we advocate for a nexus understanding that acknowledges the political nature of the concept and points to lived and experienced nexus realities. We draw on literature from heterogeneous infrastructures, giving attention to the socio-material entangle…
Conflicts, cooperation and experimentation: Analysing the politics of urban water through Accra's heterogeneous water supply infrastructure
In this paper, we analyse the heterogeneity of water supply infrastructure in Accra, Ghana, to understand the politics of water in cities where infrastructural diversity has always been the norm. We do this by extending the use of heterogeneous infrastructure configurations as a heuristic device, shifting the focus and scale of urban political ecological analyses of infrastructural diversity from users and access to water distributions at city sc…
Stadtplanung als koloniale Praxis und alltägliche Praktiken der urbanen Transformation
Antje Bruns und Toni Adscheid widmen sich in diesem Beitrag den stillen und flüchtigen Praktiken, welche Auswege aus den räumlichen Festlegungen und rassifizierten Praktiken der Stadtplanung eröffnen. Durch einen Fokus auf Accra und London, zeichnen die Autor*innen die Verwobenheit dieser zwei Metropolen des Britischen Empire in die Geschichten und Geographien des Kolonialismus nach. Hierbei wird deutlich, dass in beiden Kontexten, die historisch…
Energy Poverty and the Proliferation of Heterogeneous Infrastructure Configurations in Accra: Implications for Urban Energy Governance in African Cities
(Un)Menschliche Urbanität: Schwarze Geographien im Zeitalter des Planetaren
Aktuelle Debatten um planetare Transformationsprozesse unterscheiden regelmäßig zwischen nicht-menschlichen und menschlichen Akteur_innen, ohne die Kategorie des Menschen in ihrer räumlich-diskursiven Konstruktion und Reproduktion zu hinterfragen. Wir argumentieren, dass Menschsein keine selbstverständliche Kategorie ist, sondern eine umkämpfte räumlich-diskursive Praxis. Inspiriert von den Black Geographies und dem antikolonialen Denken Sylvia W…
Peripherien, Konflikte, Transformationen – Perspektiven einer kritischen Energiegeographie
This introduction presents the fields of peripheries, conflicts and transformations as core topics of critical energy geographies. These fields point to different ways how the provision of energy is interwoven with social inequalities and uneven spatial development. Tackling the relations between energy technology and social power, the contributions to this Theme Issue highlight how power and resistance unfold in different spatial contexts and ar…
Whose Knowledge Counts? Unpacking the Uneven Geographies and Politics of Knowledge Co-Production in Ipbes
The Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES) plays a critical role in environmental governance by synthesizing knowledge for policy-makers. In this context, the co-production of knowledge among scientists, indigenous knowledge holders, and societal actors is increasingly important. Despite inclusive goals, the organization often overlooks how uneven geographies and power relations shape collaborativ…
The production of unequal energyscapes: Contested colonial spaces for tar sands development in Canada
This is an accepted article with a DOI pre-assigned that is not yet published.This article further develops the concept of energyscapes to examine the production, governance, and transformation of socio-material spaces for tar sands extraction, distribution, and consumption in Canada. We argue that energyscapes is a helpful concept to understand the key but understudied role of competing material-discursive practices in shaping tar sands spaces. …
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