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Postfordistische Energiepolitiken?

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  • Schmitt Thomas

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Postfordist energy policies? Desertec as a scenario towards a restructuration of energy supply within the EUMENA-region. In 2009 the Desertec Industrial Initiative (DII) was founded by several, predominant German enterprises including the NGO “Desertec Foundation”. The objective of DII is to organize the conditions for the realisation of the Desertec idea, which aims to supply, in a large scale manner, Europe with electricity produced in solar power plants in North Africa and the Arabic peninsula. The Desertec concept is playing with and combining different myths as the desert, the large-scale, ”megatechnic” vision and the reconciliation of the North and the South. Critics of Desertec argue that the project has the intention to impede an energy transition towards decentralized energy structures in Europe and that Desertec has a neo-colonial attitude. Both the Arab spring and the disaster of Fukushima have changed the discoursive landscape and the institutional conditions around the realisation of Desertec. The paper raises and responds to the question, whether Desertec can be seen as a Fordist or a Postfordist project according to the categories of the French regulation school. Additionally, the Desertec concept is reflected from a cultural geography’s point of view.

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  • Schmitt Thomas, 2012. "Postfordistische Energiepolitiken?," ZFW – Advances in Economic Geography, De Gruyter, vol. 56(1-2), pages 244-263, October.
    • Handle: RePEc:bpj:zfwige:v:56:y:2012:i:1-2:p:244-263:n:17
    DOI: 10.1515/zfw.2012.0017
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