ABSTRACT
This chapter examines recent conflicts around wind energy infrastructure on the Greek island of Tinos, where disputes culminated between 2020 and 2022. Situating these events within the archipelago of the Cyclades, the chapter explores how the islands have long been shaped by continuous material and cultural exchanges. Over the centuries, Tinos maintained relative prosperity and independence, with its rural and architectural landscape reflecting a heritage of subsistence and self-sufficiency. In the twentieth century, processes of peripheralization and commodification led to shifts in land use and governance. The contested wind energy projects reflect long-standing tensions between top-down planning and grassroots resistance. The case of Tinos also illustrates how landscapes can become heritage through confrontation. Resistance to unsustainable change can generate new forms of landscape consciousness. Ultimately, the chapter builds on the islandscape approach and questions the extent to which such episodes of confrontation can generate change elsewhere, through networks of cosmopolitan activism.
