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What is wind? How do we transform wind into electricity? And how does a view of Britain from the vantage of wind energy change our narrative of its national history and its national geography as well?
This episode of the TTiN podcasts presents a recording from a live event hosted in collaboration with SPARC, or Sound Practice and Research at City St George’s, as well as City’s Modern History Cluster. The event featured an exhibition of visual artworks made in collaboration with community energy practitioners as well as an audio experience by SPARC co-director Claudia Molitor and writer Jessica J. Lee, titled “1000 words for weather.” Excerpts from this work feature at throughout this episode.
The recording also features a conversation between TTiN convenor Dom Davies and Marianna Dudley, Senior Lecturer in the Environmental Humanities at the University of Bristol, about her recent book Electric Wind: An Energy History of Modern Britain (MUP 2025), which takes readers to Britain's wildest and windiest places to think deeply about the role of nature in politics, culture, science, and technology. This discussion explored the connections between wind energy and the welfare state, what wind has to do with Thatcherite ideology, the cultural politics of NIMBY resistance to wind turbines, and the limits of GB Energy.
Pictures from the event are available on the @TTinfraNetwork Instagram page. Please like, subscribe, and review the podcast to help us reach more listeners.
This episode of the TTiN podcasts presents a recording from a live event hosted in collaboration with SPARC, or Sound Practice and Research at City St George’s, as well as City’s Modern History Cluster. The event featured an exhibition of visual artworks made in collaboration with community energy practitioners as well as an audio experience by SPARC co-director Claudia Molitor and writer Jessica J. Lee, titled “1000 words for weather.” Excerpts from this work feature at throughout this episode.
The recording also features a conversation between TTiN convenor Dom Davies and Marianna Dudley, Senior Lecturer in the Environmental Humanities at the University of Bristol, about her recent book Electric Wind: An Energy History of Modern Britain (MUP 2025), which takes readers to Britain's wildest and windiest places to think deeply about the role of nature in politics, culture, science, and technology. This discussion explored the connections between wind energy and the welfare state, what wind has to do with Thatcherite ideology, the cultural politics of NIMBY resistance to wind turbines, and the limits of GB Energy.
Pictures from the event are available on the @TTinfraNetwork Instagram page. Please like, subscribe, and review the podcast to help us reach more listeners.
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