The Library
Making territory through infrastructure : the governance of natural gas transit in Europe
Tools
Bouzarovski, Stefan, Bradshaw, Michael J. and Wochnik, Alexander (2015) Making territory through infrastructure : the governance of natural gas transit in Europe. Geoforum, Volume 64 . pp. 217-228. doi:10.1016/j.geoforum.2015.06.022 ISSN 0016-7185.
|
PDF (Creative Commons : Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0)
WRAP_1-s2.0-S0016718515001712-main.pdf - Published Version - Requires a PDF viewer. Download (2022Kb) | Preview |
Official URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.geoforum.2015.06.022
Abstract
Recent political and military events in Ukraine have brought into sharp focus concerns over the security of European gas supplies from Russia. At the same time, the creation of an infrastructural and political ‘energy union’ has become a key stated priority for the governing bodies of the European Union. Both contingencies have highlighted the 28-nation bloc’s dependence on energy sources well beyond its state boundaries, underpinned by the existence of a transnational network for the transport and distribution of natural gas. We develop a theoretical framework predicated upon assemblage and governance approaches to explore the regulatory practices and spatial features associated with this hitherto largely unexplored infrastructural realm. Qualitative evidence from interviews, policy documents and media reports is interrogated interpretively and with the aid of social network analysis techniques. The paper reveals the existence of a socio-technical assemblage for the transmission of natural gas across national boundaries emerging as a result of the erosion of decision-making power away from established state actors, and the rise of new institutional orders. While undermining the organizational arrangements that have traditionally dominated the European gas sector, these contingencies also challenge existing understandings of transnational energy governance as they apply to overland gas transit.
Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||||||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Subjects: | H Social Sciences > HD Industries. Land use. Labor | ||||||||||
Divisions: | Faculty of Social Sciences > Warwick Business School > Global Energy Faculty of Social Sciences > Warwick Business School |
||||||||||
Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): | Gas industry -- Europe, Gas companies -- Europe, Natural gas -- Transportation -- Europe, Energy security -- Europe | ||||||||||
Journal or Publication Title: | Geoforum | ||||||||||
Publisher: | Pergamon ; Elsevier Science Ltd. | ||||||||||
ISSN: | 0016-7185 | ||||||||||
Official Date: | August 2015 | ||||||||||
Dates: |
|
||||||||||
Volume: | Volume 64 | ||||||||||
Number of Pages: | 12 | ||||||||||
Page Range: | pp. 217-228 | ||||||||||
DOI: | 10.1016/j.geoforum.2015.06.022 | ||||||||||
Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||||||||
Access rights to Published version: | Open Access (Creative Commons) | ||||||||||
Date of first compliant deposit: | 30 December 2015 | ||||||||||
Date of first compliant Open Access: | 30 December 2015 | ||||||||||
Funder: | Natural Environment Research Council (Great Britain) (NERC), European Research Council (ERC), Seventh Framework Programme (European Commission) (FP7) | ||||||||||
Grant number: | RP1390198 (NERC), 313478 (ERC) |
Request changes or add full text files to a record
Repository staff actions (login required)
View Item |
Downloads
Downloads per month over past year