Project description
Reimagining wind energy and just transitions
The role of wind power in shaping Europe’s green future cannot be underestimated. Nevertheless, important cultural issues and shifts that are necessary for a just transition remain largely unaddressed. Supported by the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions programme, the UNWIND project focuses on the effects of wind energy on visions of sustainability that nonetheless have an extractivist nature and bear traces of the fossilised past. Literary studies, postcolonialism, environmental humanities and anthropology form part of the project, which also employs methods of participatory science. Specifically, UNWIND aims to examine the literature produced in contemporary Europe concerning tensions between renewable energy and extractivism. Together with wind energy communities in Ireland and Italy, the project will generate visions of renewable energy.
Objective
UNWIND (Understanding Wind Imaginaries: Politics and Poetics of Wind Power for a Just Transition) explores how wind energy shapes collective imaginaries of sustainable futures, while often remaining entangled with extractive practices that sustain fossil capital’s material and cultural legacies. Despite wind power’s central role in the EU’s energy strategy, mainstream discussions largely emphasize technical and economic concerns, neglecting the cultural and social transformations required for a truly just transition. UNWIND will be the first comprehensive study to explore how contemporary fiction engages with these contradictions while reimagining wind energy’s transformative potential. Drawing on literary and postcolonial studies, environmental humanities, anthropology, and participatory science, the project will analyze European genre fictions addressing the link between wind industry and extractivism, co-create speculative narratives of renewable futures with wind energy communities in Ireland and Italy, and collect the experiences of bottom-up energy initiatives working to build a renewable society in the present.
Thanks to the support of my supervisor (Dr Sharae Deckard) at University College Dublin, and planned secondments at the University of Glasgow and the University of Torino, the fellowship will allow me to get theoretical and methodological training, add pedagogical experience to my curriculum, and improve my project management and communication skills.
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HORIZON.1.2 - Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA)
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HORIZON-TMA-MSCA-PF-EF - HORIZON TMA MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships - European Fellowships
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