Over the past few years, I have worked on different projects. Some are scattered across publications, some yet to find their form and destination, but you can read about them in these fancy flashcards I have somehow managed to put below.
ongoing
Governing energy poverty in the EU
One of the issues I encountered during my doctoral studies is the notion of energy poverty and the conflation of the social and environmental dimension of governing the green transitions. I am thus trying to combine STS and critical policy approaches to reconstruct how energy poverty is made knowable, and ultimately governable in the EU. The project examines how different modes of measuring, defining, and monitoring energy poverty accomplish a form of epistemic work other than quantification: they enact and reproduce specific visions and socio-technical futures. In this sense, metrics, indicators, and practices become a terrain for different actors’ political work to reshape how the energy and climate transitions are governed.
completed
Policy learning and epistemic dynamics in EU energy efficiency governance
Building on fieldwork, documents, and interviews, the thesis reconstructs how energy governance is reconfigured in practice through learning, by retracing the revision of EU energy efficiency legislation. In advancing an account of learning as the contingent, iterative adjustment of actors' interpretive and operational repertoires, this research contributes to theorising learning as an inherent dimension of policy work and to understanding the dynamics that underpin EU energy and climate governance more broadly. Policy work emerges at once as 'political' and 'knowledge work'. Attending to its epistemic dimension, I argue, offers a fruitful lens for making sense of governance under uncertainty and technical complexity.
Evidence cultures and meta-regulatory discourses in the European Union
This think-in-progress project builds on one crucial question I have dealing with in my research, the blurred boundaries between expertise, evidence, and policy. Rather than a project, is a research agenda scattered across a few papers and writings of sorts I have been working on with some other brilliant friends and colleagues.