Paper Short Abstract:

This paper aim is to elaborate the concepts of infrastructure violence and discuss the concepts usefulness according today’s conflict in constructions of wind farm. The discussion is based on ethnographically fieldwork and ethnography on social media, in addition to qualitative interviews.

Paper Abstract:

In the social and cultural theory of ‘infrastructure violence’ the concept is grounded in the material violence of the city’s infrastructure, described sometimes as technical apparatus managed by civil engineers and urban planners. In scope of the field of infrastructure violence the social consequence of the violence is discussed due to the social life and everyday life of the city.

Wind farm, on the other hand, are built in windy places, in the mountain areas or the coastline, located in the region and far away from the city. In today’s highly tempered conflicts of wind farm and cleantech industry, all over Europe, the violence and harm are unwritten and told often to be done against the nature rather than the community and the people and those who stay in the area.

This paper will mainly discuss the concept of ‘infrastructure violence’ along with other concepts of conflicts. Further, it will discuss and elaborate infrastructure violence according to the materiality of the region, due to the construction of green cleantech installations, and particularly the construction of wind farms. The discussion is based on empirical studies and case studies of several wind farms, and data collected from ethnographically fieldwork and social media, in addition to qualitative interviews.