The Anthropo(Obs)cene

Swyngedouw, E

doi:10.1002/9781119558071.ch47

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“…Also, there are ideas of establishing large-scale facilities to produce hydrogen or synthetic fuels that might then be exported. All this seems to fit rather closely the characterization by Swyngedouw (2019) that we referred to earlier. Wind energy is entering Iceland in a technocratic and market-driven manner.…”

Section: Iceland and The Island Of Grímseysupporting

confidence: 89%

“…The gigantic Dogger Bank Power Link wind project is the clearest example, but also many of the Icelandic energy projects, existing and planned, fit this image. Countering these, the cautioning words of Swyngedouw (2019) call for a geographically nuanced and critical valuing of the future prospects of the energy transition, through looking back, re-appraising the future from the present. What is clear is that through the emerging transition, renewable energy is fast becoming an omnipresent and even dominant part of our landscapes.…”

Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…They rely upon certain culturally conceived, humanistic notions of the unity of the subject, and the Earth System as manipulable and almost linear -like a machine that just needs fixing. According to Swyngedouw (2019), this type of thinking is 'obscene'. In the context of this paper, this obscenity lies in neither recognising the flexible and multiple identities and subject positions of a variegated humanity nor the locally specific conditions of weather and the capacity of particular topographies along with marine and terrestrial ecosystems to allow for renewable energy generation and the cultural and societal acceptance that needs to come with that.…”

Section: Energy and The Anthropocenementioning

confidence: 99%

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Earth, wind and fire: island energy landscapes of the Anthropocene

Huijbens

Benediktsson

2022

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Carbon-based systems of energy are rapidly unravelling. The imperative of climate emergency is reshaping energy landscapes, in some instances leading to the reappraisal of energy options hitherto sidelined. This paper deals with the emerging energy landscapes of the Netherlands and Iceland through historically informed tales that focus on islands. While vastly different in historical and geographical context and scale, these cases reveal the necessity of geographical nuance facilitated by the ways insular places offer insights into energy imaginaries of the Anthropocene. The former is a historicised narrative about the reinvention of wind energy as natural gas is being ousted. It focuses on the proposed Dogger Bank Power Link Islands, the first of which is scheduled to emerge in the coming years. The latter, also historically informed, identifies the context for current large wind energy proposals in Iceland, and then contrasts these with the authors’ empirical observations from the small peripheral island of Grímsey. There wind energy is also being reinvented for ousting the predominant oil infrastructure on the island. These cases represent experimental opportunities for envisioning Anthropocene futures intended to destabilize imaginaries of growth in ways that open spaces for negotiation and contestation. They problematize dominant narratives that render wind energy development visible and knowable as a necessary intervention. Emergent from this is wind’s decentred energy landscape in the Anthropocene; an epoch where energy is revealed in its importance to our societies, dispelling the human exceptionalism implicit in the nomenclature whilst at the same time showing how our actions come to matter. The collision of the Earth and ourselves under the terms of climate emergency begs the question whether our differences are the only ones that matter? But also, if it matters what we have done, then surely it matters what we have not done and chosen to ignore.

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Section: Iceland and The Island Of Grímseysupporting

confidence: 89%

Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Energy and The Anthropocenementioning

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Earth, wind and fire: island energy landscapes of the Anthropocene

Huijbens

Benediktsson

2022

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“…Denne epoke begyndte i deres øjne med opfindelsen af dampmaskinen, hvorefter menneskelig aktivitet "gradvist blev en mere og mere betydelig geologisk, morfologisk kraft" (Crutzen & Stoermer 2000:17). Siden er begrebets rimelighed, praecision og udsigelseskraft blevet ivrigt debatteret (Haraway et al 2016), og alternativer såsom det capitalocene er bragt på banen i et forsøg på at understrege, at det er kapitalismen som økonomisk system og ikke mennesker per se, der har vidtraekkende planetaere og geologiske effekter (Swyngedouw 2019;Moore 2016).…”

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Krøijer¹,

Weisdorf²

2021

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“…This situation of asymmetry is even greater when it comes to large technical systems that are depicted as solutions to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. National and European climate mitigation policies frame discussions on infrastructure, in which other issues pertaining to distribution [37] or ecology tend to be overlooked. This has the effect of depoliticizing renewable energy production and non-road transport infrastructure such as rail and waterways.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

(Re)politicization of climate change mitigating projects: environmental forms and motives of the Seine Nord Europe canal

Petitimbert

Bouleau²,

Guimont

2022

Eur J Futures Res

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Climate change adaptation and mitigation strategies are gaining visibility and support. Decision-makers are defending the extension of large infrastructures that are low greenhouse gas (GHG) emitters, as a way to act quickly and massively without calling into question existing economic models. This situation depoliticizes these projects, masking their other ecological consequences such as their impacts on biodiversity. This article examines how promoters of these projects depoliticized its socio-technical futures while other actors re-politicized them. Using the example of the Seine Nord Europe Canal project, we show a politicization of the territorial future and a depoliticization of the environmental future. This depoliticization is based on the techno-optimist discourse promoting large-scale infrastructures as the only possible solution to the global ecological and climate crisis. It uses a selective framing of the environment that makes some elements visible and others invisible. We conducted semi-structured interviews with biodiversity stakeholders in the territories that would be impacted by the canal. Based on the concepts of environmental forms and motives, we reconstructed the environmental ontologies ignored by the dominant discourse and assembled them into three alternative scenarios. We present the method of investigation and identification of these motives and discuss the likelihood of the constructed scenarios participating in a re-politicization based on the reactions of various actors.

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The Anthropo(Obs)cene

Cited by 15 publications

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Earth, wind and fire: island energy landscapes of the Anthropocene

Earth, wind and fire: island energy landscapes of the Anthropocene

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(Re)politicization of climate change mitigating projects: environmental forms and motives of the Seine Nord Europe canal

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