Energy Transition in the Seesaw: Labor Regimes, Semi-peripheral Development, and Moral Economies between Deindustrialization and Decarbonization

This project reframes discussions of a just energy transition. Analysing connections between deindustrialization and decarbonization in Europe’s shift towards renewable energy, it advances a critical, empirically grounded theorization of transitional labour regimes, semi-peripheral development, and moral economies. To do so, the project brings together extensive ethnographic and archival material collected in the Sulcis region of Sardinia over the past three years. Some of this material provides the basis for pipeline articles, yet only its combination in a book-length publication allows the necessary scope to ground the theoretical ambition and shape an agenda-setting contribution to the field.