Overhauling Orgreave: Lessons learned for future just transitions

Else, T, Furtado Kohn, P, Genovese, A, Girei, E ORCID: 0000-0001-9631-1556 and Jimenez, A (2026) Overhauling Orgreave: Lessons learned for future just transitions. Environment and Planning C: Politics and Space. pp. 1-19. ISSN 2399-6544

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Abstract

Once the site of a mining community and historic conflict during the 1984 miners’ strike, Orgreave has undergone a complex transition and regenerated into a modern advanced manufacturing district. This study examines how community stakeholders narrate and contest the ‘success’ of Orgreave’s post-coal regeneration, and what this reveals about justice in transition initiatives. Through applying a just transition conceptual lens to qualitative interviews with multiple community stakeholders, this study shows the role played by historical and political issues in making transitions socially just, rather than defining success in solely economic terms. Proactive planning, remembrance of the past, and challenging entrenched social inequalities emerge as lessons. Ultimately, these representational, distributive, and recognitional justice elements intertwine to suggest that future just transitions should be tailored to local communities through a meaningful awareness of politicised and contextualised social realities.

Item Type:	Article
Uncontrolled Keywords:	just transitions; environmental justice; coalfield regeneration; post-industrial communities; 4406 Human Geography; 44 Human Society; 8.1 Organisation and delivery of services
Subjects:	H Social Sciences > HF Commerce > HF5001 Business G Geography. Anthropology. Recreation > GE Environmental Sciences J Political Science > JC Political theory
Divisions:	Liverpool Business School
Publisher:	SAGE Publications
Date of acceptance:	31 July 2026
Date of first compliant Open Access:	27 August 2026
Date Deposited:	27 Aug 2026 09:22
Last Modified:	27 Aug 2026 10:36
DOI or ID number:	10.1177/23996544261477901
URI:	https://researchonline.ljmu.ac.uk/id/eprint/29207

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