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dc.contributor.authorKnight, Daniel M.
dc.contributor.authorBell, Sandra
dc.date.accessioned2016-03-11T16:00:08Z
dc.date.available2016-03-11T16:00:08Z
dc.date.issued2013-05
dc.identifier241559203
dc.identifier22521ff3-4232-487f-8073-a334e50a920d
dc.identifier84879936352
dc.identifier.citationKnight , D M & Bell , S 2013 , ' Pandora's box : photovoltaic energy and economic crisis in Greece ' , Journal of Renewable and Sustainable Energy , vol. 5 , no. 3 , 033110 . https://doi.org/10.1063/1.4807477en
dc.identifier.issn1941-7012
dc.identifier.otherORCID: /0000-0001-9197-983X/work/83086061
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10023/8412
dc.description.abstractThe Greek photovoltaic program was launched in 2006 and rebranded in 2011 as a way to repay debt and decrease national deficit. The scheme promotes new livelihood opportunities on all levels, from micro-scale home installations to macro-scale solar parks producing energy for international export. Offering potential economic stability to a nation at the fore of global neoliberal crisis, solar energy also presents an alternative to petroleum and lignite that currently dominate the energy sector. However, there are many hesitations and conflicting rhetorics surrounding the photovoltaic drive. Its success or failure as a sustainable economic pathway lies as much in understanding local nuances of social relations and historical consciousness as in governmental policy. This paper presents the findings from preliminary research that aims to "scale" all levels of the Greek photovoltaic experience and raises questions of energy policy, neoliberal rationale, and the relationship between local and global socioeconomic systems. It considers the everyday cultural complexities of implementing energy policy and assesses the contribution of an ethnographic approach to interdisciplinary energy research.
dc.format.extent147954
dc.language.isoeng
dc.relation.ispartofJournal of Renewable and Sustainable Energyen
dc.subjectDF Greeceen
dc.subjectGN Anthropologyen
dc.subjectRenewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environmenten
dc.subjectSDG 7 - Affordable and Clean Energyen
dc.subject.lccDFen
dc.subject.lccGNen
dc.titlePandora's box : photovoltaic energy and economic crisis in Greeceen
dc.typeJournal articleen
dc.contributor.institutionUniversity of St Andrews. Social Anthropologyen
dc.identifier.doi10.1063/1.4807477
dc.description.statusPeer revieweden


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