"Nano" Regeneration: How Human Agency Intermediates Between Nature and Technology in Community-Based Energy. (December 2021)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Walther, Charlotte Marie; Poldner, Kim; Kopnina, Helen; Dentoni, Domenico
• Other Names: Muñoz Pablo guest-editor.; Branzei Oana guest-editor.
• Is Part Of: Organization & environment. Volume 34:Number 4(2021)
• Page Start: 581
• Page End: 594
• Publication Date: 2021-12
• Subjects: nano -- regeneration -- human agency -- community-based energy -- nature -- technology; Associations, institutions, etc -- Environmental aspects -- Periodicals; Business enterprises -- Environmental aspects -- Periodicals; Environmental management -- Periodicals; Environmental responsibility -- Periodicals; Sustainability -- Periodicals; 658.408305
• DOI: 10.1177/1086026619886841
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 1086-0266

Abstract

This article provides a nano (hyperlocal) view of climate change mitigation by viewing regenerative organizing through the eyes (as well as bodies and senses, etc.) of the households engaged in community-based energy projects. By showing what humans make up for in the largely absent relationship between nature and technology in these projects, we envision an incremental extension of the literature on community-based energy. The radically different contribution we aim to make is a tripartite imbrication that brings in natural agency alongside the human and the technical but specifies precisely how nano (smaller than micro) embodied practices afford mis- and realignments.