About LOREC-pilot
LOREC-pilot is an anthropological pilot research that prepares for the 5-year long LOREC project. LOREC-pilot is funded from A. Stimulation grant awarded by the Dutch Ministry of Education and FSW of VU to Prof. Dimitris Dalakoglou.
Prof. Dimitris Dalakoglou is studying infrastructures and grassroots movements since 2004. He is the author of the books 'the Road' (2017), 'Critical Times in Greece' (2018), 'Roads and Anthropology' (2017) and 'Revolt and Crisis in Greece' (2011).
LOREC-pilot focusing on energy communities in 5 countries, will study the social transformations linked to the changing relationship between infrastructures and their users in Europe that shape the changing model of infrastructural provisions in the continent.
In recent European history, infrastructures have been the realm where many aspects of the democratic social contract between citizens and states have materialised. Thus, citizens have experienced the post-2008 infrastructure gap (IG) as a challenge to the entire political paradigm. IG became even more visible in reference to the Green Transition of infrastructures, whilst the pandemic and then the war in Eastern Europe intensified IG even more.
New notions of social participation have emerged both from the top-down and from the grassroots level, giving rise to novel and innovative forms of civil activity focused on infrastructures. New everyday political logics and collective action are emerging, challenging the ways that European polities and their infrastructural materialities have been operating. Most importantly this process is related to some radical qualitative transformations of diverse European communities towards infrastructural communities.
The overarching aim of LOREC is to innovate both in the scale and the type of the empirical datasets and renew the theorisation of notions such as democracy, community and infrastructure in Europe in order to match the ongoing and rapidly increasing shifts experienced by European societies in their relationships to infrastructures since 2008.
Prof. Dimitris Dalakoglou is studying infrastructures and grassroots movements since 2004. He is the author of the books 'the Road' (2017), 'Critical Times in Greece' (2018), 'Roads and Anthropology' (2017) and 'Revolt and Crisis in Greece' (2011).
LOREC-pilot focusing on energy communities in 5 countries, will study the social transformations linked to the changing relationship between infrastructures and their users in Europe that shape the changing model of infrastructural provisions in the continent.
In recent European history, infrastructures have been the realm where many aspects of the democratic social contract between citizens and states have materialised. Thus, citizens have experienced the post-2008 infrastructure gap (IG) as a challenge to the entire political paradigm. IG became even more visible in reference to the Green Transition of infrastructures, whilst the pandemic and then the war in Eastern Europe intensified IG even more.
New notions of social participation have emerged both from the top-down and from the grassroots level, giving rise to novel and innovative forms of civil activity focused on infrastructures. New everyday political logics and collective action are emerging, challenging the ways that European polities and their infrastructural materialities have been operating. Most importantly this process is related to some radical qualitative transformations of diverse European communities towards infrastructural communities.
The overarching aim of LOREC is to innovate both in the scale and the type of the empirical datasets and renew the theorisation of notions such as democracy, community and infrastructure in Europe in order to match the ongoing and rapidly increasing shifts experienced by European societies in their relationships to infrastructures since 2008.