Slowing down to speed up or get off: The role of resource legacies in narratives of wind energy in local transition governance

• Wind power governance becomes contested because of temporal misalignments. • Resource legacies are mobilised in the interpretation of wind power experiences. • Local administrations in resource communities construct a legacy of energy peripheralisation and strive to escape it. • Resource legacies can be both positive and negative and shape governance strategies. • Wind power is interpreted either negatively as alien, or as a new chapter in resource extraction.