Eve Vogel
Associate Professor and Geography Program Co-head, Department of Earth, Geographic, and Climate Sciences | College of Natural Sciences
2020-21 Scholars Project Title: Ambiguities of renewable energy: rethinking electricity markets, green development and sustainability in Massachusetts (Co-Scholar Regine Spector)
This project (together with Regine Spector) 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, particularly through impacts on hydropower, rivers and river communities.