Like the four previous volumes, this book continues the publication of the best texts from the Young Talent Austrian Development Research Award. In 2023, the theme of the prize was Energy Transition and the Global South. It also includes contributions of the winners of the main prize: a reflection on Austria's colonial history by the historian Walter Sauer, and a theoretical treatise on the concept of climate colonialism by sociologist Karin Fischer, who characterizes climate crisis as a global crisis of distribution and justice.
As different as the contributions of the young scientists presented here may be, they are all linked by a central theme: Whether Ugandan climate activists, palm oil farmers in Indonesia, opponents of lithium mining in Argentina, Indian women workers in enormous heat, or villagers in Uganda who benefit from simple emission-reducing solar technology, climate change and the resulting energy transition always have – in addition to technological and economic aspects – a central social dimension that must be negotiated sociopolitically and which must also be critically accompanied by social science. Development research also makes an important contribution to these diverse transformation processes – not least as a peace project.
Editor Andreas J. Obrecht is a habilitated sociologist and head of the OeAD’s Division of Science and Research for Development Cooperation.
Table of Content:
I Introduction
Development Research as a Peace Project
Andreas J. Obrecht
II Contributions by the Winners of the Austrian Development Research Award 2023
Habsburg’s Colonial Empire and Austrian Identity
Climate Colonialism – a Travel Guide through Origins, Theory, and Case Studies
Karin Fischer
III Energy Transition and the Global South: Contributions to the Young Talent Austrian Development Research Award 2023
Climate (In)Justice as a Global Challenge:A Framing Analysis of the Climate Justice Movement in Uganda
Clemens Bohl
Palm Oil and the EU’s Renewable Energy Directive II: A Green Trade War? Analyzing the Impact on EU-Indonesia’s Bilateral Relations and the Future of the Palm Oil Sector in Indonesia
Nisasia Ekafitrina
Inequalities in Resource-Based Global Production Networks: Resistance to Lithium Mining in Argentina (Jujuy) and Portugal (Região Norte)
Felix Malte Dorn
“Come Hail or Heatwave”: Utilizing Just Energy Transition to Address Occupational Heat Stress among Female Construction Workers in Hyderabad, India
Ambika Sairam
Safe Water and Saved CO2: CO2 Reductions and SDG Impacts of Solar Water Disinfection (SODIS) with WADI – Project Evaluation of “Clean Air and Safe Drinking Water for Soroti” (Uganda)
Max Reisinger
