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    • What future for tourism places in renewable energy transitions?

      Abstract:
      In renewable energy transitions, tourist places are reconfigured to make space for renewable energy infrastructure. Renewable energy projects provoke diverging social imaginaries amongst those involved in the politics of tourism placemaking that symbolically and materially produce the sustainable futures of destinations. How is tourism to be understood as a component of sustainable futures amidst this complexity? In this presentation, I explore this matter in relation to research on experiences of wind power infrastructure in natural areas of Sweden. Stakeholders make different senses of wind turbines in sparsely populated area. Using assemblage thinking, diverse possibilities for envisioning and organizing the sustainable future of destinations in renewable energy transitions are revealed. Assemblage thinking focuses on the capacities of spatial constituents to interact and produce multiple ‘possibility space’, making visible the relationship between social imaginaries of renewable energy futures and their material manifestation in tourism spaces of the Anthropocene.