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Based on fieldwork combining interviews, field observations, and document analysis, the study explains that dispersed well pads and pipelines create unpredictable steam emissions and water disturbances within a densely populated agricultural landscape. These disruptions generate differentiated, local claims rather than a unified movement, translating grievances into broader justice concerns and occasionally linking local activists to wider networks.","Energy Research & Social Science 136 (2026) 104760  \nContents lists available at ScienceDirect Energy Research & Social Science  \njournal [homepage: www.elsevier.com/locate/erss](homepage: www.elsevier.com/locate/erss)  \n| Original research article\u003Cbr>Fragmented Resistance in Energy Transitions: Geothermal Materiality in Dieng, Indonesia |  |  |  |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| Yogi Setya Permanaa,*, Dini Suryania, Hasrul Hanif b, Laila Kholid Alfirdausc\u003Cbr>a Research Center for Politics, Research Organization for Social Sciences and Humanities, National Research and Innovation Agency, Jakarta, Indonesia b Department of Politics and Government, Faculty of Social and Political Sciences, Universitas Gadjah Mada, Yogyakarta, Indonesia\u003Cbr>c Department of Politics and Governance Studies, Faculty of Social and Political Sciences, Universitas Diponegoro, Semarang, Indonesia |  |  |  |\n| A R T I C L E I N F O |  | A B S T R A C T |  |\n| Keywords:\u003Cbr>Geothermal extraction Energy materiality Fragmented resistance Uneven exposure Political ecology Energy transition |  | Geothermal development in Dieng, Indonesia, illustrates how renewable energy infrastructures can generate uneven socio-material disruptions and fragmented forms of resistance. Drawing on fieldwork that combined interviews, field observations, and document analysis, this study examines how the scattered layout of geothermal installations, including dispersed well pads and pipelines, produces unpredictable steam emissions and water disruptions in a densely populated agricultural landscape. These disruptions create uneven material risks that are experienced differently across neighbourhoods and social groups, generating differentiated and localised claims rather than a unified movement. While existing scholarship has examined conflict, risk perception, and environmental injustice in geothermal development, less attention has been paid to how dispersed infrastructures shape differentiated grievances and how resistance may, in turn, conditionally reshape infrastructure. The article shows that geothermal materiality is not a fixed technical characteristic, but an “inmaking materiality” shaped through daily encounters, contestation, and selective operational adjustments. In this context, local grievances over steam, water contamination, noise, and corrosion are translated into broader concerns about justice, sometimes linking activists to regional and transnational civil society networks. By showing how dispersed infrastructure produces uneven exposure and fragmented resistance, the article contributes to debates in political ecology, the social life of energy infrastructures, and the politics of energy transition. |  |\n\n1. Introduction  \nScholarship on social resistance to resource and energy extraction has expanded considerably, offering insights into how communities confront extractive pressures across diverse geographies [1–3]. Recent scholarship on social resistance to natural resource and energy extraction shows that communities across the Global South mobilise in ways ranging from open protest [4,5] and legal challenges [6], to quieter forms of territorial defence [7], and everyday refusal to contest the social-ecological harms of extractive regimes [8–10]. These resistancesoften arise amid violent dispossession and unequal state–corporate control, as documented in contexts ranging from Zimbabwe [11] to Latin America [12,13]. Indigenous and local communities often place their struggles within broader claims to sovereignty [14] and environmental justice [15], weaving energy conflicts into longer histories of land and resource defence [16,17]. Political-economy and decolonial  \nperspectives critique neoliberal extractivism for reproducing unsustainable resource use and uneven benefit distribution [18–20], while recent climate-justice literature highlights how these conflicts now intersect with calls for equitable, participatory, and socially just energy transitions [21–24]. 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