Where the eagles dare? Enacting resistance to wind farms through hybrid collectives

How are actors enrolled and arguments crafted and mobilised in the resistance to wind farms? The discussion is based on a study of two wind farm projects in Norway, on Smola and Hog-Jaeren. By identifying strategies for making arguments of resistance effective and convincing, the ways are explored in which these strategies of representation evolve as a process of searching for arguments both adapted to local concerns and to national bodies of environment management. The resistance develops as a process where actor groups construct hybrid collectives by enrolling humans and non-humans. Adjusting the hybrid collectives to fit concerns implies employing nature objects and various concepts of nature that may work in favour or against resistance.