Identities: Journal for Politics, Gender and Culture http://www.identitiesjournal.edu.mk/index.php/IJPGC <p><em>Identities: Journal for Politics, Gender and Culture</em> is an open-access, double-blind peer-reviewed international journal that seeks to serve as a platform for the theoretical production of Southeastern Europe and enable its visibility and an opening for international debate with authors from both the “intellectual centers” and the “intellectual margins” of the world. It is particularly interested in promoting theoretical investigations which see issues of politics, gender and culture as inextricably interrelated. It is open to all theoretical strands, to all schools and non-schools of thought without prioritizing cannons and their major figures of authority. It does not seek doctrinal consistency, but it seeks consistency in rigor of investigation which can combine frameworks of interpretation derived from various and sometimes opposed schools of thought. Our passion is one for topics rather than philosophical masters.</p> <p><em>Identities</em> is published by the Institute of Social Sciences and Humanities - Skopje, North Macedonia.</p> en-US <p><em>Identities</em> is published under the following license: Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0). Under this license, users of our content must give appropriate credit to authors and source as well as indicate if changes were made, cannot be used for commercial purposes, and, in the instance that it is built upon or transformed, may not be distributed. For <em>Identities</em>, the copyrights allow the audience to download, reprint, quote in length and/or copy articles published by <em>Identities</em>&nbsp;so long as the authors and source are cited. For more information on our license, see the following: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0.</p> zach.d.dejong@isshs.edu.mk (Zachary De Jong) risto.aleksovski@isshs.edu.mk (Risto Aleksovski) Thu, 19 Jun 2025 00:00:00 +0000 OJS 3.2.1.1 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss 60 “I want to, but I lack desire”: The green energy transition caught between expectations and possibilities http://www.identitiesjournal.edu.mk/index.php/IJPGC/article/view/582 <p>In this article, I present results of a nationally representative survey on attitudes toward the Green transition in Bulgaria, which we conducted in 2023 as part of the project “Public Capacity for a Just Green Transition” (KП-06 Н55/13). The survey focuses on four groups of questions concerning climate change, social justice, expectations from the new transition, and the public agenda. Based on these, I draw predominantly pessimistic conclusions about both the Green transition and the transition to liberal democracy preceding it, showing how the experience of the latter inevitably colors the former. I analyze the gap between possibilities and expectations for the new transition with reference to Jacques Lacan’s theorizing about the difference between need/demand and desire.</p> <p>&nbsp;</p> Jana Tsoneva Copyright (c) 2025 Identities: Journal for Politics, Gender and Culture http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0 http://www.identitiesjournal.edu.mk/index.php/IJPGC/article/view/582 Thu, 19 Jun 2025 00:00:00 +0000