The Special Issue 'Whose future is it anyway? Struggles for just energy futures', edited by, among others, Timmo Krüger, has been published in the journal FUTURES.

The special issue addresses the challenges, claims, and contradictions in struggles for just energy futures. The Editorial provides an introduction to the overarching questions and theses and introduces the articles. The eight articles share a critical position towards modernist assumptions and classical top-down approaches in the field of energy justice research. The authors draw on different empirical examples to discuss how energy futures are (and must be) the subject of conflict in societies. In analysing these conflicts, they focus on possible implementations of the just-transition concept, on the role of social movements and protest actors, and on the relevance of energy conflicts to the practice and theory of democracy.

About the editor Timmo Krüger: Dr. Timmo Krüger is a research associate at the Institute for European Urban Studies and the chair of Urban Studies and Social Research at the Faculty of Architecture and Urbanism. His teaching and research topics in urban studies are closely linked to the work at the Institute for European Urban Studies.