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Anemos-ity, apatheia, enthousiasmos: An economic sociology of law and wind farm development in Cyprus.

Perry-Kessaris, Amanda (2013) Anemos-ity, apatheia, enthousiasmos: An economic sociology of law and wind farm development in Cyprus. Journal of Law and Society, 40 (1). pp. 68-91. ISSN 0263-323X. (doi:10.1111/j.1467-6478.2013.00613.x) (KAR id:34323)

Abstract

This piece sketches 'an' economic sociology of law: one possible approach, in relation to one case study of wind farm development in Cyprus. Carbon emissions are a global threat to which wind farms may offer something of a solution. But wind farms can also pose local threats. So they tend to produce conflicts on different levels of social life: action, interaction, regime, and rationality. As such they are ill-suited to exploration through law or economics, and ideally suited to exploration through economic sociology of law. The approach set out in this article enables social life of all levels, intensities, and types (including the economic) to be placed on the same analytical page. What emerges is a most human story of animosity, apathy, and enthusiasm in which law acts variously as means, obstacle, and irrelevance.

Item Type: Article
DOI/Identification number: 10.1111/j.1467-6478.2013.00613.x
Subjects: K Law
Divisions: Divisions > Division for the Study of Law, Society and Social Justice > Kent Law School
Depositing User: Sarah Slowe
Date Deposited: 19 Jun 2013 08:47 UTC
Last Modified: 16 Nov 2021 10:11 UTC
Resource URI: https://kar.kent.ac.uk/id/eprint/34323 (The current URI for this page, for reference purposes)

University of Kent Author Information

Perry-Kessaris, Amanda.

Creator's ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1341-2392
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