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The Geopolitics of Green Colonialism: Global Justice and Ecosocial Transitions
The age of denial is over. Across the global North, how we should respond to the climate crisis has been with carbon trading, green hydrogen, a shift to renewables, and electric cars. Green New Deals across Europe and North America promise to reduce emissions while creating new jobs.
But these climate 'solutions' beneath the sustainability branding lead to new environmental injustices and green colonialism. The green growth and clean energy plans of the Global North require the large-scale extraction of strategic minerals from the Global South. The geopolitics of transition implies sacrificing territories and genuinely sustainable ways of inhabiting this world. A new subordination in the global energy economy prevents societies in the South from developing sovereign strategies to foster a dignified life.
This book platforms the voices conspicuously absent in debates around energy and climate in the Global North. Drawing on case studies from across the Global South, the authors provide incisive critiques of green colonialism in its material, political, and symbolic dimensions, discuss the multiple entanglements that forcefully connect the transitions of different world regions in a globalized economy, and explore alternative pathways toward a liveable and globally just future for all.
But these climate 'solutions' beneath the sustainability branding lead to new environmental injustices and green colonialism. The green growth and clean energy plans of the Global North require the large-scale extraction of strategic minerals from the Global South. The geopolitics of transition implies sacrificing territories and genuinely sustainable ways of inhabiting this world. A new subordination in the global energy economy prevents societies in the South from developing sovereign strategies to foster a dignified life.
This book platforms the voices conspicuously absent in debates around energy and climate in the Global North. Drawing on case studies from across the Global South, the authors provide incisive critiques of green colonialism in its material, political, and symbolic dimensions, discuss the multiple entanglements that forcefully connect the transitions of different world regions in a globalized economy, and explore alternative pathways toward a liveable and globally just future for all.
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288 pages, Paperback
Published March 20, 2024
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July 5, 2024
The climate catastrophe has become (another) transnational profit opportunity. This compelling collection of essays explores the power dynamics capitalists use to exploit the Global South, while highlighting resistance efforts rooted in the belief that another world is possible and is being built through everyday struggle. Highly recommended!
November 5, 2025
Veel info amai, wel super boeiend!
August 24, 2024
A very interesting book though it feels like it would benefit from having fewer longer essays as some pieces lacked the space to truly go into depth.
June 7, 2025
book club. very enjoyable with discussion, some chapters stronger than others
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