AUTHOR=Boemare Catherine TITLE=Challenging the new blue deal by embedding interactions with the non-humans in the offshore renewable energy development JOURNAL=Frontiers in Marine Science VOLUME=9 YEAR=2023 URL=https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/marine-science/articles/10.3389/fmars.2022.952593 DOI=10.3389/fmars.2022.952593 ISSN=2296-7745 ABSTRACT=

This paper is challenging the new blue deal outlining the need for a change in the expectative. Offshore wind farms (OWFs) are not only a climate-friendly way of producing electricity but also a shifting paradigm unique opportunity, acknowledging the increasing presence of anthropogenic infrastructure in the marine environment and seeing them as the place for recreating relations with non-humans and work with them. We give some ideas that could ground a research program pairing both positive and negative aspects of OWF and study the conditions of realization of mutual beneficial relationship coming from the “mosaic of open-ended assemblages of entangled ways of life.”