William Westgard-Cruice is a geographer and political economist focused on the geographies of capitalist industrialization and the global renewable energy industry. He is currently researching and writing about the growth and transformation of the offshore wind energy industry across Western Europe and the United States of America.
William is currently a postdoctoral researcher at the Technical University of Denmark (DTU), Department of Wind and Energy Systems. He completed his doctorate in geography at the Clark University Graduate School of Geography, with research visits at the University of Hamburg, the University of Bremen, and the City University of New York (CUNY), . Before his PhD, William studied economics and geography at Utrecht University.
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 Project:
Under the supervision of Prof. James McCarthy, William completed a doctoral dissertation titled “The accumulation of capital and the socialization of labor in the North Atlantic offshore wind energy industry (2002-2024).” He is currently publishing the articles that composed this work.
Please feel free to write me an email at wiwe [at] dtu.dk