Green hydrogen regions: emergent spatial imaginaries and material politics of energy transition
分析了澳大利亚工业区被推广为“绿色氢能枢纽”过程中的话语和物质政治，揭示了国家-资本联盟推动的转型项目如何遭遇区域想象冲突、治理层级矛盾以及氢能物质限制引发的企业避险策略。
This paper analyses the discursive and material politics of energy transition, focusing on promotion of Australian industrial regions as ‘green hydrogen hubs’. Regions are key spatial imaginaries in transition projects promoted by state-capitalist coalitions. First-to-market investments target regions with suitable infrastructures and workforces, anticipating future decarbonised energy markets. Yet, far from an orderly transition, such projects confront competing regional imaginaries and conflicts across governance scales, with hydrogen’s troublesome material limitations precipitating hedging tactics among established energy-intensive firms. Scholars of decarbonisation, ‘green capitalism’ and energy transitions must pay closer attention to materiality and the complexity of regional contestations and asymmetries.