Unit:
Specialty Science, Technology, Society-Science and Technology StudiesLibrary of the School of Science
Supervisors info:
Αριστοτέλης Τύμπας, Καθηγητής, Τμήμα Ιστορίας και Φιλοσοφίας της Επιστήμης, ΕΚΠΑ
Σταύρος Δρακόπουλος, Καθηγητής, Τμήμα Ιστορίας και Φιλοσοφίας της Επιστήμης, ΕΚΠΑ
Γιώργος Βελεγράκης, Διδάσκων, Τμήμα Ιστορίας και Φιλοσοφίας της Επιστήμης, ΕΚΠΑ
Original Title:
The MegaProject of oil & gas extraction in Greece: Energy strategies in the era of combined climate and economic crises
Translated title:
The MegaProject of oil & gas extraction in Greece: Energy strategies in the era of combined climate and economic crises
Summary:
In the second decade of the 21st century, when the climate crisis was already threatening the human societies, an EU state designed and implemented a fossil fuel extraction megaproject in the Greek peninsula as well as the Eastern Mediterranean. While the EU claims to be at the forefront of international efforts to tackle climate change, at the same time directly or in-directly it supports hydrocarbon extraction megaprojects and the construction of pipelines, leading to an intensification of the antagonism over fossil fuels in the Eastern Mediterranean. Thus, a critical contradiction arises. How is it even possible for both climate change mitigation and fossil fuels projects to be simultaneously true? With that apparent observation as a general point of departure, the Greek extraction program is analyzed in its various dimensions. By employing an STS theoretical framework that interweaves technical systems with politics and a specific interpretation of the “black box” metaphor, together with the concepts of extractivism and oil-led development, we explore the particular conditions that allowed this program to emerge. Finally, the extractivist imaginary is hopefully dismantled in its actual objectives and parameters, while its potential impacts and exact dimensions, in the case of Greece, are presented in all of their historical paradoxicality.
Main subject category:
Science
Keywords:
STS, extractions, fossil fuels, hydrocarbon, extractivism, oil-led development, glass box, hydrocarbons Greece
Number of references:
160
