William Westgard-Cruice is a geographer and political economist focused on the dynamics of capitalist industrialization, labor process change, and the political economy of the global energy industry.
He currently works as a postdoctoral researcher at the Technical University of Denmark (DTU), where he analyses the growth and transformation of the global offshore wind energy industry.
At DTU, William is based in the Department of Wind and Energy Systems (DTU Wind). He completed his doctorate in geography at the Clark University Graduate School of Geography (Massachusetts, USA), with research visits at the University of Hamburg, the University of Bremen, and the City University of New York (CUNY). Before his doctoral research at Clark University, William studied economics and geography at Utrecht University in the Netherlands.
Main research interests:
geographies of capitalist industrialization
political economy of energy system transformation
labor process theory and labor regime research
methodological topics in the critique of political economy
(theory of value, accumulation, and crisis; dialectical method)
Current research projects:
Research on the changing spatial division of labor in the offshore wind energy industry and the dynamics of regional development in peripheral maritime regions in Europe.
Research on the global political economy of ‘green industrial policy’, with a focus on Germany, Denmark, and the United States of America.
Please feel free to write me an email at wiwe [at] dtu.dk