ABSTRACT
This part introduction presents an overview of the key concepts discussed in the subsequent chapters. The part describes some of the ways in which energy geographers are engaging with and discusses key ideas in geography while providing the building blocks for an indigenous conceptual approach to understand the spatialities of energy in society. It highlights the characteristics of established markets for the resource – particularly the US and Brazil – as well as the entrance of new global players such as China, Argentina, Germany, France and Indonesia. The part argues that energy geographies' position at a number of academic 'borderlands' affords the discipline with a degree of flexibility and openness that may prove advantageous in intellectual and practical terms. It shows that interventions in the social sciences and humanities on energy-related topics have paid little attention to the broader theoretical implications that arise in the context.
