Renewing Destruction - Wind Energy Development, Conflict and Resistance in a Latin American Context

Examines how wind energy projects impact people and their environments.

List of contents

Preface / Introduction / 1. A Brief History of Politics, Conflict and Development / 2. ''We are Surrounded:' Living under Wind Turbines in La Ventosa / 3. Communal Land, Resistance and Pacification for Renewable Energy / 4. Insurrection for Land, Sea and Dignity: Álvaro Obregón and the struggle for Autonomy / 5. Redressing, Improving or Continuing the Old in New Ways? / 6. Renewing Destruction: Colonization and Cultural Genocide in Relation to Wind Energy Development / 7. Conclusion

About the author

Alexander Dunlap is Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Centre for Development and the Environment, University of Oslo. He has published several peer-reviewed articles and book reviews including 'Permanent War: Grids, Boomerangs, and Counterinsurgency' in Anarchist Studies (2014), 'The Militarization and Marketization of Nature: An Alternative Lens to Climate-conflict' in Geopolitics (2014), and 'The Expanding Techniques of Progress: Agricultural Biotechnology and UN-REDD+' in the Review of Social Economy (2015).

Product details

• Authors: Alexander A. Dunlap
• Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 25.06.2019
• EAN: 9781786610652
• ISBN: 978-1-78661-065-2
• Dimensions: 158 mm x 239 mm x 20 mm
• Weight: 508 g
• Illustrations: 15 BW Photos, 3 Charts, 1 Tables
• Series: Transforming Capitalism
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; Latin America, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Economy, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Geopolitics, Geopolitics, POLITICAL SCIENCE / World / Caribbean & Latin American, Caribbean islands, Politics & government, Political Economy, Politics and government, Latin America – Mexico, Central America, South America