Will Industrial Decarbonisation Produce Resilient Communities? Report

In Port Talbot, there are proposals for decarbonisation of the Tata Steelworks, while The Association of British Ports (ABP) 4 in partnership with SWIC and Neath Port Talbot Council have produced the Port Talbot docks vision including a hydrogen and carbon docking area, and infrastructure to upload wind turbines (potentially fabricated at the steelworks site) ready to be towed out to off-shore win. [...] Containment in this context, can be understood as an ecology of objects that provide enough stability and safety to enable people to feel and cognize a range of positive and negative experiences including fears and anticipations related to the future (Rustin, 2012; Randall, 2012; Lertzman, 2012). [...] The overarching finding from the Pembroke workshop visual tasks13 was the negative framing expressed and ideated in relation to much of the material infrastructure with shared expressions of rupture and loss. [...] Psychosocial Logic The Pembroke group were lacking enthusiasm and trust in relation to the decarbonisation vision proposals, and articulated living with risk, loss, and distrust in (global and local) others. [...] Illustraon of workshop Tasks 8 the conviction did not stand up in relation to the extent of expressions of the negative impacts of industry.