Project Title: Ambiguities of Renewable Energy: Rethinking Electricity Markets, Green Development and Sustainability in Massachusetts (Co-Scholar Eve Vogel)
This project (together with Eve Vogel) seeks to better understand the ambiguities and tensions inherent in implementing green and renewable energies to build a more just and sustainable society. Through a historically and ethnographically informed, multi-sited research design within Massachusetts, we ask how the state’s promotion of “green” electricity through capitalist markets to achieve competition and carbon reduction goals actually plays out in practice in local communities and environments.
Selected Publications:
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Spector, R. 2017. Order at the Bazaar: Power and Trade in Central Asia. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press.
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Spector, R. 2019. "Property, Lawfare and the Politics of Hope in Weak States" Polity 51:1 pp. 3-34.
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Spector, R. 2018. "Manufacturing and Migration in Eurasia," Europe-Asia Studies 70:10 pp. 1668-88.
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Spector, R. 2018. "A Regional Production Network in a Predatory State: Export-Oriented Production at the Margins of the Law," Review of International Political Economy 25:2 pp.169-189.
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Spector, R and A Botoeva. 2016. "New Shopowners in Old Buildings: Infrastructure, Electricity, and Apparel Production in Kyrgyzstan," Post-Soviet Affairs 33:3 pp. 235-253.
