Anemos‐ity, Apatheia, Enthousiasmos: An Economic Sociology of Law and Wind Farm Development in Cyprus

Perry-Kessaris, Amanda

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.

Citation

Perry-Kessaris, A. (2013). Anemos‐ity, Apatheia, Enthousiasmos: An Economic Sociology of Law and Wind Farm Development in Cyprus. Journal of Law and Society, 40(1), 68-91. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-6478.2013.00613.x

• Journal Article Type: Article
• Online Publication Date: Feb 15, 2013
• Publication Date: Mar 1, 2013
• Deposit Date: Dec 12, 2012
• Journal: Journal of Law and Society
• Print ISSN: 0263-323X
• Electronic ISSN: 1467-6478
• Publisher: Wiley
• Peer Reviewed: Peer Reviewed
• Volume: 40
• Issue: 1
• Pages: 68-91
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-6478.2013.00613.x