Anemos‐ity, Apatheia, Enthousiasmos: An Economic Sociology of Law and Wind Farm Development in Cyprus. (15th February 2013)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Perry‐Kessaris, Amanda
• Is Part Of: Journal of law and society. Volume 40:Number 1(2013:Mar.)
• Page Start: 68
• Page End: 91
• Publication Date: 2013-02-15
• Subjects: Sociological jurisprudence -- Periodicals; 340
• DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-6478.2013.00613.x
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 0263-323X

Abstract

<abstract abstract-type="main" xml:lang="en"> <title> <x xml:space="preserve">Abstract</x> </title> <p>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.</p> </abstract>