A showcase of work in Crete developed by the Department of Sociology, University of Crete and led by Dr Hara Kouki. This work has investigated how Crete has been positioned as a vital hub in the Mediterranean amid the broader corridor-led transformation of the region through new energy projects, inflows of tourists and a series of investments, plans and future visions.
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Read the Academic Paper: Resisting wind turbines: Renewable energy and infrastructures of social reproduction in Crete published in Territory, Politics, Governance
This article examines resistance to renewable energy projects on Crete, Greece, situating these struggles within socio-environmental inequalities. Based on ethnographic fieldwork in southern Rethymno, it shows how residents contest industrial renewable energy sources (IRES), especially wind parks, challenging dominant narratives of green transition. Combining infrastructure studies, social reproduction theory and social movement research, the article traces how IRES projects recast Crete as an energy hub amid uneven and collapsing infrastructures. Anti-wind mobilisations emerge as infrastructures of social reproduction, holding together everyday life and local ecologies while contesting speculative futures and reframing wind power as a struggle over territory and sovereignty. (Available here)
