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

Examines how wind energy projects impact people and their environments.

Sommario

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

Info autore

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).

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Alexander A. Dunlap
• Editore: Rowman & Littlefield
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Tascabile
• Pubblicazione: 21.06.2019
• EAN: 9781786610669
• ISBN: 978-1-78661-066-9
• Dimensioni: 150 mm x 230 mm x 14 mm
• Peso: 340 g
• Illustrazioni: 15 BW Photos, 1 Charts, 1 Tables
• Serie: Transforming Capitalism
• Categorie: Scienze sociali, diritto, economia > Scienze politiche > Scienze politiche e cittadinanza attiva; 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