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- Spijkerboer, Rozanne C., et al.
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Out of steam? : A social science and humanities research agenda for geothermal energy
- 2022
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Ingår i: Energy Research & Social Science. - : Elsevier BV. - 2214-6296 .- 2214-6326. ; 92
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- The potential of geothermal energy for energy transition is increasingly recognized by governments around the world. Whether geothermal energy is a sustainable source of heat and/or electricity depends on how it is deployed in specific contexts. Therefore, it is striking that there is only limited attention to geothermal energy from a social science and humanities (SSH) perspective. Geothermal energy is largely conceptualized as a technological and/or geological issue in both science and practice. This perspective article aims to go beyond such conceptualizations by positioning social science research as an important lens to explore the promises and pitfalls of geothermal energy. We first provide an overview of the current state of geothermal energy as a decarbonization strategy. Second, we move on to review the existing literature. This review shows that studies that do address geothermal energy from an SSH perspective tend to be of a descriptive nature and lack analytical diversity. Third, we discuss three complementary theoretical approaches that are used in the social sciences to observe and address other forms of energy and energy transition. We believe that socio-technical assemblages, systems, and imaginaries can provide fruitful analytical lenses to study the promises, pitfalls and spatialization of geothermal energy. We conclude the paper with a research agenda and call for further engagement with this topic in SSH research, with attention to specificities of global South and North contexts.
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- Armiero, Marco, et al.
(författare)
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Ambiente
- 2020
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Ingår i: Una scuola per la cittadinanza. - : PM edizioni.
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Bokkapitel (populärvet., debatt m.m.)
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- Armiero, Marco
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Beyond Nonpartisan Discourses:Radical Knowledge for Extreme Times
- 2020
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Ingår i: ecocene. CAPPADOCIA JOURNAL OF ENVIRONMENTAL HUMANITIES. - online : Cappadocia University. - 2717-8943. ; 1:1, s. 147-153
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- The majority of scientists agree on climate change and on the most daunting environmental problems humans arefacing today. Moved by a commendable desire to contribute to the solution of these problems, several scientists havedecided to speak up, telling the scientific truth about climate change to decision-makers and the public. Althoughappreciating the commitment to intervene in the public arena, I discuss some limits of these interventions. I arguethat stating the reality of climate change does not prescribe any specific solution and sometimes it seems faint indistributing responsibilities. I ask whether unveiling/knowing the truth can be enough to foster radicaltransformations. Can knowledge move people towards transformative actions if power relationships do not change?Various environmental justice controversies prove that even when science is certain—and this is rarely the case inthat kind of controversies—knowing might be not enough in the face of power structures preventing free choices and radical changes. In the end of my article, I state that it is fair to recognize that scientists have done their parts, and it is now up to social movements to foster the radical changes in power relationships that are needed for transforming societies.
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- Armiero, Marco, et al.
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Climate Insurgency between Academia and Activism : An Interview with David N. Pellow
- 2022
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Ingår i: Social Text. - : Duke University Press. - 0164-2472 .- 1527-1951. ; 40:1, s. 157-164
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This interview focuses on a spectrum of urgent challenges facing marginalized human and other-than-human communities, including the intersecting crises of global anthropogenic climate disruption and state and institutional racist violence. We discuss and consider the opportunities, limits, and contradictions of pursuing transformative, intersectional political change and scholarship through efforts to bridge community activism and academic labor. We also critically engage questions concerning the role of the state in the context of racial capitalism and the production of environmental and climate injustice, and how grassroots movements have responded to these concerns. Specific movement formations included in this discussion include the Central Coast Climate Justice Network of California, the Movement for Black Lives/Black Lives Matter, Extinction Rebellion, and multispecies abolition democracy. The importance of radical, multi-issue politics and cross-movement solidarities is also given serious attention.
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- Armiero, Marco
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COVID-19, the World, and Me
- 2020
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Ingår i: Environmental History. - : Oxford University Press. - 1084-5453 .- 1930-8892. ; 25:4, s. 680-686
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)
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- Armiero, Marco
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Foreword
- 2023
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Ingår i: Basilicata and Southern Italy between Film and Ecology. - : Springer Nature. ; , s. 1-269
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Bokkapitel (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)
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- Armiero, Marco
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From waste to climate
- 2022
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Ingår i: Social Text. - : Duke University Press. - 0164-2472 .- 1527-1951. ; 40:1
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- It has often been said that the problem with climate change is its invisibility. People do not mobilize about climate change because they cannot see it; even less can they see CO2 emissions—that is, the most relevant material element causing climate alternations. Although I would argue that for some people climate change is more visible than for others, it remains a global environmental problem not easily felt on the ground. On the other hand, waste appears to be an incumbent presence, almost impossible to avoid; it also seems more localized than global climate change. People mobilize around waste because it stands in front of their eyes and noses. This is how the story has been told so many times. This article instead tells another story, one in which climate activism is rooted in struggles against waste contamination. In Naples, Italy, twenty years of mobilization against toxicity—which, by the way, is much less visible and much more harmful than the urban garbage in the streets—has generated an epistemic community trained to understand the invisible connections linking local problems, global issues, and socioenvironmental inequalities. Their original elaboration of biocide as the theoretical framework explaining the production of toxic communities provided them with an equally original framework to understand climate change and its unequal impacts on people and ecosystems. In moving between waste and climate, local and global, those epistemic communities have not only changed the ways in which climate activism has been conceived but have also changed themselves.
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- Armiero, Marco, et al.
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Introduction : A world that is losing its margins
- 2022
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Ingår i: Rethinking Geographical Explorations in Extreme Environments. - London : Informa UK Limited. ; , s. 1-8
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Bokkapitel (refereegranskat)abstract
- The introduction reflects on processes of historical production of marginal environments. In particular, it pays attention to their political components - namely states, nationalism, and imperialism - and to continuities and ruptures. In the context of climate change and in the very years of the popularisation of the ‘conquest’ of the outer space, the following chapters adopt a new approach, stressing the interconnectivity of distant areas and their dialectical relationship and highlighting the colonial and extractivist matrix behind the historic and historiographical concepts of frontiers and exploration.
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