Frontiers of 'green' accumulation in Europe marginal regions: understanding renewable transitions in the European capitalism to build energy democracy

能源部门是全球碳排放量最大的部门。对化石燃料的依赖日益加剧了气候危机。因此，向可再生能源过渡是关系到人类和地球其他居民命运的一个重要社会技术进程。然而，脱碳并不是资本主义社会转型的唯一目标。它们以私有化的可再生能源和同样私人但得到公共补贴的投资为基础，是资本积累的主要杠杆。这种双重性不可避免地影响到任何寻求民主组织过渡的项目。这种奖学金将巩固我的研究所产生的对资本主义绿化过程的创新理解。它还将推动广泛的理论和分析贡献，这些贡献可以在发展更公正，公平和文化上适当的可再生过渡方面发挥关键作用。该奖学金将建立在我的研究，调查资本积累周围的可再生能源在欧洲的边缘地区。报告分析了“绿色”作为一种积累机会与其作为一种合法化框架的杠杆作用之间未得到充分探讨的关系，结合了对两个可再生能源系统的案例研究的全面理论阐述和经验观察：意大利南部的风能发电和德国东部的农业沼气发电。我的研究表明，在这两个案例研究中，将可再生能源转型与新自由主义治理原则相结合，吸引了公司资本对生态系统流动（可再生能源）和空间的关注，而长期以来，这些流动和空间对投资战略来说是微不足道或毫无意义的。就在几十年前，意大利南部的风力或东德国土壤的能源作物产量--以及提供能源作物的农村空间--还很难引起投资者的兴趣。这一结构性变化使欧洲资本主义的两个半边缘地区更接近能源政策和市场的核心，并产生了若干影响。大资本的到来，加上有利的法规，促使社会经济结构和民主生活在多个层面上进行了深刻的重组，影响了地方社区自主决定其发展道路的能力。补贴政策和低土地价格共同成为投机投资者的强大驱动力，这些投资者瞄准可再生能源补贴，以获取金融租金。在陆地周围。它还减少了当地社区从他们居住的地区的可再生能源项目中获取和重新分配金融和非金融利润的可能性。通过这项奖学金，我将通过将其转化为格式并将其转换为可以与不同受众对话和参与的领域来推进我的研究。为了进一步理解资本积累和社会经济边缘化如何与转型治理相互作用，我将加强国际上对能源民主的讨论，为此，我将实施一项活动计划，以加强我在学术界和学术界以外的专业形象和网络，面向民间社会组织，社会联盟和公共机构，系统地产生学术，政策和社会影响。我将通过在高级期刊上发表文章和后续研究来丰富专业辩论，同时我将通过多模式网络平台、报告、播客和国际研讨会传播我的研究，为政策和政治实践提供工具。科学界、从业者、政策制定者和活动家将获得丰富的知识，致力于实现可再生转型，以及提供基本服务，更加真正民主。

The energy sector is responsible for the largest share of carbon emissions at the global scale. Day by day, its reliance on fossil fuels exacerbates the climate crisis. Transitions to renewable energy are therefore a vital sociotechnical process for the fate of humanity and the other earth's inhabitants. Yet, decarbonisation is not the only aim transitions serve in capitalist societies. Based on privatised renewable sources and equally private -yet publicly subsidised- investment, they work as major levers for capital accumulation. This duality inescapably affects any project seeking to organise transitions democratically.This fellowship will consolidate the innovative understandings of capitalism's greening processes that my research generated. It will also advance a wide range of theoretical and analytical contributions which can play a pivotal role in the development of more just, equitable and culturally appropriate renewable transitions. The fellowships will build on my research which investigated capital accumulation around renewable energy in Europe's marginal regions. It analysed the under-explored relationship between the 'green' as an accumulation opportunity and its leveraging as a legitimation framework, by combining comprehensive theoretical elaborations and empirical observations from case studies of two renewable energy systems: the generation of wind energy in southern Italy and agricultural biogas in eastern Germany.My research revealed that, in both case studies, the alignment of renewable transitions to neoliberal governance principles drew corporate capitals' attention to ecosystem flows (renewable sources) and spaces that had long been of negligible or null interest to investment strategies. Only a few decades ago, hardly would sources such as the wind force in South Italy or the capacity of east Germany's soil to produce energy crops -alongside the rural spaces giving access to them- have aroused investors' appetites.This structural change pushed two semi-peripheral regions of the European capitalism closer to the core of energy policies and markets, with several implications. The arrival of large capitals,facilitated by favourable regulations, prompted a deep reorganisation of the socioeconomic fabric and democratic life at multiple scales, affecting local communities' capacity to self-determine their development paths.iFurthermore, subsidisation policies and low land prices combined into a powerful driver for speculative investors targeting renewable subsidies to extract financial rent.The ensuing pressure towards land acquisitions increased conflicts around land. It also reduced the possibility for local communities to capture and redistribute financial and non-financial profits from renewable energy projects in the territories they inhabited.Through this fellowship, I will advance my research by translating it into formats and transposing it into realms that can speak to and engage with different audiences.In furthering our comprehension of how capital accumulation and socioeconomic marginality interplay with transitions governance,I will strengthen international discussions towards energy democracy.To this end, I will implement a programme of activities tailored to reinforce my professional profile and networks across academia and beyond it, towards civil society organisations, social coalitions, and public institutions, generating academic,policy and social impact systematically. While I will enrich specialised debates through publications in high-ranking journals and follow-up research, I will offer instruments to policy and political practice by disseminating my research through a multi-mode web platform, a report, a podcast, and an international workshop.An extensive wealth of knowledge will so be available to scientific communities, practitioners, policy makers and activists dedicated to rendering renewable transitions, and the provision of essential services,more genuinely democratic.