An unjust transition: Energy, colonialism and extractivism in occupied Western Sahara
For Saharawis living in the occupied territory, energy justice is inextricably linked with independence and decolonization.
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For Saharawis living in the occupied territory, energy justice is inextricably linked with independence and decolonization.
Alexander Dunlap is a postdoctoral research fellow at the Centre for Development and the Environment, University of Oslo. His work has critically examined police-military transformations, market-based conservation, wind energy development and extractive projects more generally in Latin America and Europe. He has published two books: Renewing Destruction: Wind Energy Development, Conflict and Resistance in an American Context (Rowman & Littlefield, 2019) and, the co-authored, The Violent Technologies of Extraction (Palgrave, 2020). This also includes articles in Anarchist Studies, Geopolitics,...