Ethnicism and (green) extractivism in contemporary Sulcis. A study through the lenses of citizenship and activism
The decarbonization policies of the European Green Deal highlight central political tensions, such as the labor/environment opposition. Local protests against these policies often stem from political dynamics tied to specific territories and the politicization of new spheres of experience. This arti...
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Anuac
2024
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| Online adgang: | Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM |
| Summary: | The decarbonization policies of the European Green Deal highlight central political tensions, such as the labor/environment opposition. Local protests against these policies often stem from political dynamics tied to specific territories and the politicization of new spheres of experience. This article focuses on such opposition in Sardinia’s Sulcis Iglesiente region, particularly the island of San Pietro, by examining the interplay of local, national, and continental factors. It argues that distrust and dispossession expressed by social groups arise from exclusion from political resources, lack of control over land, sea, and labor. The article explores the terms that islanders use to express these feelings and what these expressions tell us about local experiences of citizenship. It asks whether the local mobilization of ethnicisms by various actors can be interpreted as a tool – both regressive and emancipatory – for regaining control. The article endeavors to extract from its context a specific conception of the political dimension and to capture the ethnographically derived meaning of local political categories. Face to extractive logics and social fragmentation imposed by broader processes, it is worth questioning whether and in what terms precisely political subjectivities can (or cannot) arise in this micro-context, and whether (energy) citizenship experiments can be likened to self-instituting processes with a basis other than the logic of profit and speculation. |
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