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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">Dear colleagues, <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">This is a reminder about the upcoming deadline for submitting abstracts for a Special Issue of the FUTURES JOURNAL on <b>"Hydrogen Pasts, Presents, and Futures."</b> Please
do get in touch with Filip Rozborski, if you are interested but can’t meet the deadline.
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">Guest editors</span></b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">: Kornelia Konrad, University of Twente; Michael Kriechbaum, University
of Graz; Filip Rozborski, Maastricht University; Andreas Weber, University of Twente<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">Special issue information</span></b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">: The Paris Agreement requires a profound transformation
of energy systems and their climate impact. This includes drastic reductions of carbon dioxide emission not only within sectors in which multiple solutions exist but also within sectors considered ‘hard to abate’, such as the chemical or steel industry. Not
the least with a view on these sectors, hydrogen has been rediscovered and is experiencing unprecedented levels of societal attention as a versatile energy carrier that is expected to complement electrification efforts and link various sectors, including electricity,
transportation, industry, and buildings. Corresponding to these rising expectations, more than 60 countries have published hydrogen strategies and roadmaps as of May 2024 (Corbeau & Kaswiyanto, 2024), formulating their specific visions of a hydrogen economy.
Moreover, there has been exponential growth in public and private investments and a surge of large-scale hydrogen projects worldwide (IEA, 2023). Particularly important in many current concepts is the vision of a global hydrogen economy, connecting hydrogen
exporting and importing countries, often following present and past resource flows between Global South and Global North countries.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:35.4pt"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">While the intensity of the current hydrogen hype and scale of investments are unprecedented, the vision of hydrogen as an energy carrier
has a long past. Initial technologies for creating and using hydrogen were already invented in the 19th century, and multiple waves of enthusiasm occurred throughout the 20th and early 21st century, connected to different societal hopes such as energy independence,
democratisation and technological progress (Hacking et al. 2019; Yap & McLellan, 2023; Budde & Konrad, 2019; Bakker & Budde, 2012; Sovacool and Brossmann, 2010). However, the concrete visions and expectations with regard to both hydrogen production and use
changed drastically over time, for instance from a focus on hydrogen cars and stationary fuel cells in buildings around the turn of the millennium to the current strong hopes on ‘green’ hydrogen for the steel and chemical sectors, reflecting the changing concerns
of their times.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:35.4pt"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">Scholars in the futures field have explored various aspects of hydrogen futures. They have scrutinized past dynamics of hydrogen futures
(e.g., Ruef & Markard, 2010; Bakker & Budde, 2012; Konrad et al., 2012), but also their relatively high resilience (Sovacool and Brossmann, 2010; Eames et al., 2006). While studies within previous waves of interest have focused on dynamics of hydrogen future
discourses, current research calls for examining the relationship between hydrogen futures and hydrogen pasts (Hollenhorst, 2023), as well as established imaginaries regarding social order and energy transformation (e.g., Hanusch & Schad, 2021; Virens, 2024;
de Leeuw & Vogl, 2024; Dorn, 2024; Beasy, 2022). Additionally, other scholars have pointed to the importance of spatial differences and materialities of hydrogen futures (Hine, Gibbson & Carr, 2024; Trencher & van der Hijden, 2019), and underlined how global
hydrogen futures are shaped by power structures and global North-South dynamics (Kalt & Tunn, 2022; Rodhouse et al., 2024; Flavdad, 2020). <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">The envisaged <i>Special Issue </i>welcomes contributions investigating present and past hydrogen futures, their context of emergence, their performativity, and the
relation between both. We also welcome contributors who tackle specific hydrogen-related projects, policies, research and innovation activities and how a transition to green hydrogen may impact various regions and sectors. Contributors are invited to pay particular
attention to how hydrogen visions, expectations and imaginaries relate to (hydrogen) pasts, presents, and futures. For instance, how are present hydrogen futures formed and carried by (if not ‘stuck’ in) present concerns? How are they simultaneously shaped
by the specific pasts of places, social groups, sectors and knowledge fields? To what extend do they relate to and reflect past hydrogen futures? How do emerging material and socio-political structures co-produce global and local energy futures? How do hydrogen
visions relate to histories of colonialism and extraction?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black"> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">Deadlines and submission instructions</span></b><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<ul style="margin-top:0cm" type="disc">
<li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">All details:</span></b><i><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"> </span></i><a href="https://www.sciencedirect.com/special-issue/319923/hydrogen-pasts-presents-and-futures" target="_blank"><i><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">https://www.sciencedirect.com/special-issue/319923/hydrogen-pasts-presents-and-futures</span></i></a><span lang="EN-GB"><o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1"><span lang="EN-GB">Please submit expressions of interest in the form of an abstract (300-400 words) by email to Kornelia Konrad (</span><a href="mailto:k.e.konrad@utwente.nl" target="_blank" title="mailto:k.e.konrad@utwente.nl"><span lang="EN-GB" style="border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0cm">k.e.konrad@utwente.nl</span></a><span lang="EN-GB">),
Michael Kriechbaum (</span><a href="mailto:michael.kriechbaum@uni-graz.at" target="_blank" title="mailto:michael.kriechbaum@uni-graz.at"><span lang="EN-GB" style="border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0cm">michael.kriechbaum@uni-graz.at</span></a><span lang="EN-GB">),
Filip Rozborski (</span><a href="mailto:filip.rozborski@maastrichtuniversity.nl" target="_blank" title="mailto:filip.rozborski@maastrichtuniversity.nl"><span lang="EN-GB" style="border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0cm">filip.rozborski@maastrichtuniversity.nl</span></a><span lang="EN-GB">)
and Andreas Weber (</span><a href="mailto:a.weber@utwente.nl" target="_blank" title="mailto:a.weber@utwente.nl"><span lang="EN-GB" style="border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0cm">a.weber@utwente.nl</span></a><span lang="EN-GB">) by <b>March 15, 2025</b>. If
you are <b>struggling to meet the deadline, please contact us for assistance</b>.<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1"><span lang="EN-GB">Acceptance of abstracts will be communicated in April.<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1"><span lang="EN-GB">Manuscripts may be submitted to <i>Futures </i>starting 1 June 2025. Deadline for submission of papers is 1 December 2025. Submissions before the deadline will enter the review
process earlier.<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1"><span lang="EN-GB">Individual papers will be published online first as soon as they are accepted and ready for publication.<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1"><span lang="EN-GB">The expected publishing date of the Special Issue is approximately September / October 2026.<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1"><span lang="EN-GB">Please read the </span><a href="mailto:http://www.elsevier.com/journals/futures/0016-3287/guide-for-authors" target="_blank" title="mailto:http://www.elsevier.com/journals/futures/0016-3287/guide-for-authors"><span lang="EN-GB" style="border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0cm">guidance
to authors</span></a><span lang="EN-GB"> before submitting (</span><a href="http://www.elsevier.com/journals/futures/0016-3287/guide-for-authors" target="_blank" title="http://www.elsevier.com/journals/futures/0016-3287/guide-for-authors"><span lang="EN-GB" style="border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0cm">http://www.elsevier.com/journals/futures/0016-3287/guide-for-authors</span></a><span lang="EN-GB">)<o:p></o:p></span></li></ul>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">Kind regards,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">Andreas Weber<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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