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- Title
RETURNING TO NATURE: Post-carbon Utopias in Svalbard, Norway.
- Authors
Ødegaard, Cecilie Vindal
- Abstract
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).
- Subjects
SVALBARD (Norway); COAL mining; ECONOMIC development; ANTHROPOLOGY; NARRATIVES
- Publication
Social Analysis, 2022, Vol 66, Issue 2, p1
- ISSN
0155-977X
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.3167/sa.2022.660201