Tilting at Nuclearmills? Tilting at Nuclearmills? Wind energy, grassroots networks and technologies of protest in Spain, 1974-1984
Valentines-Álvarez, Jaume (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. Departament de Filosofia)

Data:	2022
Resum:	In 1975, the death of dictator Francisco Franco opened the door to a turbulent period known as the "Spanish Transition. " In the wake of the 1973 oil crisis, national politics, political violence and social demands were interwoven with international shifts in science and technology and global debates on "energy transitions. " In close dialogue with foreign environmental groups, the anti-nuclear movement in Spain deployed a large repertoire of collective action; it ranged from pleasant activities to violent direct actions against nuclear technologies, but also included the making of technological alternatives. Counter-culture activists and counter-experts opposed nuclear energy and promoted renewable energy as two sides of the same coin. This paper explores the pioneering (and networked) initiatives of an anarchist-oriented group called Self-Managed Radical Alternative Technologies, created in 1976, and a group of young engineers who founded the cooperative Ecotècnia, which was behind the construction of the first commercial wind turbine in Catalonia in 1984. The paper focuses on the transnational circulation of grassroots knowledge, the epistemics of resistance, and the development of wind energy technologies as "technologies of protest. " Technologies of protest illuminate how the social construction of technology is intertwined with what I call the "social destruction of technology. ".
Drets:	Tots els drets reservats.
Llengua:	Anglès
Document:	Article ; recerca ; Versió acceptada per publicar
Matèria:	Renewable energy transitions ; Alternative technology ; Anti-nuclear movement ; Counter-culture ; Social destruction of technology
Publicat a:	NTM. Journal of the History of Science, Technology and Medicine, Núm. 30 (2022) , p. 311-344, ISSN 1420-9144

DOI: 10.1007/s00048-022-00343-w
PMID: 35925280

Disponible a partir de: 2024-08-04 Post-print

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