Renewable energy futures - ruination or well-being for all?

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.

About the speaker: Zoi Christina Siamanta (PhD, 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.

The webinar series Greening the economy? - Critical dialogues on energy transitions in the Bothnia region is a collaboration between the Research Institute for Organization and Business in Sustainable Transitions (ROBUST) at the Umeå School of Business, Economics and Statistics (Sweden) and Hanken School of Economics in Vasa (Finland).

The series has received support from the Umeå Transformation Research Initiative (UTRI).

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