Returning to Nature. Post-carbon Utopias in Svalbard, Norway
While industrial closures in past decades were legitimized through an emphasis on economic motives, current closures are often framed within an emphasis on ‘green transition’, that is, through prefigurative discourses about post-carbon futures. This article discusses how the prefigurative transition...
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ftunivbergen:oai:bora.uib.no:11250/3061206 2023-05-15T18:29:39+02:00 Returning to Nature. Post-carbon Utopias in Svalbard, Norway Ødegaard, Cecilie Vindal 2022 application/pdf https://hdl.handle.net/11250/3061206 https://doi.org/10.3167/sa.2022.660201 eng eng Berghahn urn:issn:0155-977X https://hdl.handle.net/11250/3061206 https://doi.org/10.3167/sa.2022.660201 cristin:2074209 Social Analysis: The International Journal of Anthropology. 2022, 66 (2), 1-22. Attribution-NoDerivatives 4.0 Internasjonal http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nd/4.0/deed.no Copyright 2022 the author Social Analysis: The International Journal of Anthropology 1-22 66 2 Journal article Peer reviewed 2022 ftunivbergen https://doi.org/10.3167/sa.2022.660201 2023-04-05T23:05:47Z While industrial closures in past decades were legitimized through an emphasis on economic motives, current closures are often framed within an emphasis on ‘green transition’, that is, through prefigurative discourses about post-carbon futures. This article discusses how the prefigurative transition framework reshapes the industrialization narrative, seeking to bridge the anthropology of energy and theories of performance. By paying attention to how ‘proclaimed transition’ is envisioned, narrated, and performed, the article explores the ways in which transition in Svalbard is spectacularly dramatized by the dismantling of the Svea coal mines, accompanied by the ‘returning to nature’ of the area. The article analyzes this ‘returning’ as a social drama of our anthropogenic times, demonstrating how landscape and nature are made key entities in performances of post-carbon utopia(s). publishedVersion Article in Journal/Newspaper Svalbard University of Bergen: Bergen Open Research Archive (BORA-UiB) Norway Svalbard Svea ENVELOPE(-11.217,-11.217,-74.583,-74.583) Social Analysis 66 2 1 22 |
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While industrial closures in past decades were legitimized through an emphasis on economic motives, current closures are often framed within an emphasis on ‘green transition’, that is, through prefigurative discourses about post-carbon futures. This article discusses how the prefigurative transition framework reshapes the industrialization narrative, seeking to bridge the anthropology of energy and theories of performance. By paying attention to how ‘proclaimed transition’ is envisioned, narrated, and performed, the article explores the ways in which transition in Svalbard is spectacularly dramatized by the dismantling of the Svea coal mines, accompanied by the ‘returning to nature’ of the area. The article analyzes this ‘returning’ as a social drama of our anthropogenic times, demonstrating how landscape and nature are made key entities in performances of post-carbon utopia(s). publishedVersion |
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