[Humsamserien] Nästa seminarie: The Flow of WELGAS

[Martin Hultman]

Hej,

TACK för ett spännande och kreativt seminarium igår, kul! 

Nästa vecka är det min tur. Jag lägger fram ett artikelutkast baserat på min nya bok "Den inställda omställningen. Svensk energi- och miljöpolitik i möjligheternas tid 1980-1991" utgiven av Gidlunds förlag. Nedan finns en kortare beskrivning. Ambitionen är att publicera artikeln i en av de tidskrifter som numera finns vilka utgår från Environmental Humanities, typ Environmental Humanities, Resillience eller annan. Eller kanske i en antologi. Tips tas gärna emot.   

Ser fram emot att diskutera texten!

Allt gott,

Martin

Abstract

In the wake of the current climate change, biodiversity loss and economic recession debate, ideas of in-depth socio environmental transition away from the dominant industrial modern practice of extractivism flourish. It is not the first time in recent history the claim for changing the modern society’s energy, food and transport chains has been made. Inhabitants in Sweden, for example, voted already in the 1980 for a re-orientation of the entire energy system in line with today’s ideas of transition. One of the most intriguing and greeted projects of transition at that time are investigated; how a project called WaterELectricityGAS with three energy transformation technologies; wind turbine, reversible fuel cell and hydrogen combustion engine was set up, enacted as well as intra-acted with discourses of Swedish energy- and environmental politics in the 1980s. The analysis is based on publically available reports, journal articles, petitions, and uncategorized archive material including minutes, contracts, personal letters, notes, information materials, reports and so forth from an archive.

This article re-creates the history of WELGAS by enacting a special focus on the quasi-objects water and wind and discusses a combination of actor-network theory and discourse theory. The important insights and the vocabulary of becoming in ANT are kept and merged with the insights of history and conflict from DT. Antonyms to the classic ANT concepts are proposed in forms of Problematization-Perversion; Intressement-Estrangement; Enrolment-Rejection; Mobilize-Paralyze creating a heterogeneous material~semiotic analysis with attention to conflict, power, and marginality.

Keywords
Renewable energy, Wind power, Quasi-objects, ANT, Discourse Theory, Transition, Posthumanities, Heterogenous collectives
 
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