Green development or greenwashing? A political ecology perspective on China's green Belt and Road

T Harlan - Eurasian Geography and Economics, 2021 - Taylor & Francis
ABSTRACT The Belt and Road Initiative (BRI)–China's multi-trillion-dollar infrastructure
program across 138 countries and counting–has provoked concern among observers that …

'Murderous energy'in Oaxaca, Mexico: wind factories, territorial struggle and social warfare

A Dunlap, MC Arce - The Journal of Peasant Studies, 2022 - Taylor & Francis
This article examines the struggle against the new Électricité de France (EDF) wind park,
Gunaa Sicarú, in Unión Hidalgo (UH), Mexico. Foregrounding Indigenous land defense, the …

[HTML][HTML] Transactional colonialism in wind energy investments: Energy injustices against vulnerable people in the Isthmus of Tehuantepec

J Ramirez, S Böhm - Energy Research & Social Science, 2021 - Elsevier
Energy production is a source of disputes across the world. Governments and firms argue
that investing in wind energy contributes to the sustainable development of energy systems …

Introduction: Uneven geographies of electricity capital

N Luke, MT Huber - … and Planning E: Nature and Space, 2022 - journals.sagepub.com
This special issue considers the relationship between energy, capitalism, and space through
the lens of electricity capital. Electricity capital is the nexus of state, regulatory, and financial …

The effectiveness of the social impact assessment (SIA) in energy transition management: Stakeholders' insights from renewable energy projects in Mexico

N Martinez, N Komendantova - Energy Policy, 2020 - Elsevier
Social opposition to renewable energy (RE) projects has become a significant issue both for
the deployment of RE technologies and the social justice of this process. However, the …

Labour in transition: A value-theoretical approach to renewable energy labour

R Pearse, G Bryant - … and Planning E: Nature and Space, 2022 - journals.sagepub.com
This article analyses the conditions facing labour within the renewable energy (RE)
accumulation strategies of electricity capital. We draw on value-theoretical perspectives …

The landrush of wind energy, its socio-material workings, and its political consequences: On the entanglement of land and wind assemblages in Denmark

JK Kirkegaard, D Rudolph… - … and Planning C …, 2023 - journals.sagepub.com
Challenges of deploying wind farms on land are often associated with the notion of local
acceptance. For developers, however, the socio-material practicalities of identifying …

Resisting renewables: The energy epistemics of social opposition in Mexico

N Martinez - Energy Research & Social Science, 2020 - Elsevier
Previous studies have examined the research practices and their normative roles in various
areas of energy transitions (ETs). However, non-economic social research is not usually …

More wind energy colonialism (s) in Oaxaca? Reasonable findings, unacceptable development

A Dunlap - Energy Research & Social Science, 2021 - Elsevier
This Perspective article, offers a commentary intervention to the article,'Transactional
Colonialism in Wind Energy Investments: Energy Injustices against Vulnerable People in the …

Who owns the land owns the wind? Land and citizenship in the Isthmus of Tehuantepec, Mexico

GA Torres Contreras - Journal of Agrarian Change, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Wind energy expansion across rural areas interacts with various interests at the local level,
generating multiple reactions within communities. The Eólica del Sur wind farm …