Returning to Nature. Post-carbon Utopias in Svalbard, Norway

• Published in: Social Analysis
• Main Author: Ødegaard, Cecilie Vindal
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Berghahn 2022
• Subjects: Norway; Svalbard; Svea
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/11250/3061206; https://doi.org/10.3167/sa.2022.660201

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...