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Sun, wind, and the rebirth of extractive economies : renewable energy investment and metanarratives of crisis in Greece

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Date
12/2015
Author
Argenti, Nicolas
Knight, Daniel M.
Keywords
DF Greece
GN Anthropology
Anthropology
Arts and Humanities (miscellaneous)
SDG 7 - Affordable and Clean Energy
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Abstract
In the midst of economic crisis, the Greek state has taken the unprecedented step of opening many of the nation's closed business sectors to international investors. Opportunities for multinational investment have been most prolific in the arena of renewable energy, where foreign prospecting in solar and wind energy is soaring. This article discusses two renewable energy initiatives: photovoltaic parks on agricultural land in Thessaly, central mainland Greece, and a planned wind farm development on the Aegean island of Chios. Among the people of Thessaly and Chios, the renewable energy initiatives are widely seen in terms of conquest and occupation akin to the Ottoman era and the Second World War. Harnessing natural resources is perceived to be a colonial programme of economic extraction associated with the global South as much as a sustainable energy initiative, heralding a return to a time of foreign occupation. This article examines the dialectical relationship emerging between narratives of renewable energy extraction and broader, long-standing conceptions of Greek identity.
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Argenti , N & Knight , D M 2015 , ' Sun, wind, and the rebirth of extractive economies : renewable energy investment and metanarratives of crisis in Greece ' , Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute , vol. 21 , no. 4 , pp. 781-802 . https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-9655.12287
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Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute
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Peer reviewed
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-9655.12287
ISSN
1359-0987
Type
Journal article
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© 2015 The Authors. Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd on behalf of the Royal Anthropological Institute. This is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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http://hdl.handle.net/10023/8405

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