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Pusceddu, A.M. (2024). Resilient domestication or domesticating resilience? A critical exploration of household strategies, climate policies and energy transition in post-welfare Southern Europe. Ethnographies of Capitalism.

A. M. Pusceddu,  "Resilient domestication or domesticating resilience? A critical exploration of household strategies, climate policies and energy transition in post-welfare Southern Europe", in Ethnographies of Capitalism, Athens, 2024

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	title = "Resilient domestication or domesticating resilience? A critical exploration of household strategies, climate policies and energy transition in post-welfare Southern Europe",
	year = "2024",
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TI  - Resilient domestication or domesticating resilience? A critical exploration of household strategies, climate policies and energy transition in post-welfare Southern Europe
T2  - Ethnographies of Capitalism
AU  - Pusceddu, A.M.
PY  - 2024
CY  - Athens
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AB  - This paper proposes to discuss domestication at the intersection of political economy
and political ecology, revisiting the critique of adaptationist approaches in the context
of the current climate crisis and “green” capitalist restructuring. My aim is to engage
in critical conversation with resilient thinking (a sophisticated rebirth of “adaptation”)
through the examination of “domestic economies” in the context of climate policies
and energy transition (or expansion). The paper is based on empirical research carried
out in two industrialized regions in Italy (Brindisi) and Portugal (Sines), home to oil-
based industries and relevant energy infrastructures. While these regions differ in their
position within the respective national economy, they are both affected by ongoing or
complete processes of deindustrialization (coal-based industries) and targeted by the
proliferation of new “green” projects (e.g. green hydrogen production) and expansion
of LNG infrastructures. They also differ in relation to the scale and relevance of informal
economies, while sharing the significant expansion of tertiary sectors that coexist with
(and often depend on) the presence of oil corporations and energy utilities. This scenario
is inscribed in the context of the persistent austerity that informs southern European
post-welfare policy orientations, particularly public spending cuts and wage repression.
As a result, both regions are confronted with impoverished welfare provisions and the
multiscalar pressures of market-oriented environmental governance, resulting in the
growing territorial competition for the attraction of private corporate “green” investments
and in precarious labour arrangements. The paper aims at discussing how the interaction
of these factors affects household strategies and social reproduction practices, both in
their daily and inter-generational arrangements, prospects and aspirations. By doing so,
the paper seeks to explore domestication as a useful framework to critically approach
resilience thinking in the context of climate crisis and energy transition.
ER  -