So-called green transitions to “renewable energy”, such as wind energy, across the world create new socioecological problems, intensifying climate change and broader environmental change. Can we build renewable energy futures that work for the well-being of all and not for growth capitalism? How? This talk will focus on how we can think about radical alternatives on renewable energy transitions from a postcapitalist and a posthuman lens. It will focus on "community renewable energy ecologies", covering some relevant struggles and initiatives and strategies for renewable energy development that could nourish broader transformative change Speaker:
Dr Zoi Christina Siamanta (PhD from Birkbeck University of London, 2016) is a political ecologist and human geographer, with a background in environmental science. She was formerly Lecturer at Wageningen University and Research (WUR), Postdoctoral Researcher at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens (NKUA), Adjunct Lecturer and Postdoctoral Researcher at the University of the Aegean. Her research and publications focus on renewable energy and energy transitions, in terms of critique and transformative alternatives.
Commentators:
May-Britt Öhman, Associate Professor of Environmental History (Centre for Multidisciplinary Studies on Racism, Uppsala University)
Petra Berg, Postdoctoral Researcher in Marketing (University of Vaasa).
This webinar is part of the series Greening the economy? - Critical dialogues on energy transitions in the Bothnia region