Contesting energy transitions: wind power and conflicts in the Isthmus of Tehuantepec

S Avila-Calero - Journal of Political Ecology, 2017 - journals.uair.arizona.edu
This article studies the expansion of large-scale wind energy projects on the Isthmus of
Tehuantepec (Mexico) and local socio-environmental conflicts that have emerged in …

[HTML][HTML] Between improvement and sacrifice: Othering and the (bio) political ecology of climate change

D Andreucci, C Zografos - Political Geography, 2022 - Elsevier
In this article, we argue that othering is central to the government of climate change.
Critically engaging with Foucault's ideas on biopolitics and racism, we elaborate a …

From climate adaptation to climate justice: Critical reflections on the IPCC and Himalayan climate knowledges

R Chakraborty, PY Sherpa - Climatic Change, 2021 - Springer
The IPCC reports represent a powerful discursive and institutional undertaking. However,
the IPCC has faced criticism for its different organizational and functional biases which …

Timescapes of Himalayan hydropower: Promises, project life cycles, and precarities

A Lord, G Drew, MD Gergan - Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
In this paper, we review the existing social science scholarship focused on hydropower
development in the Himalayan region, using an interpretive lens attuned to issues of time …

Contested knowledges: Large dams and mega-hydraulic development

R Boelens, E Shah, B Bruins - Water, 2019 - mdpi.com
Locally and globally, mega-hydraulic projects have become deeply controversial. Recently,
despite widespread critique, they have regained a new impetus worldwide. The …

Hydropower in the Himalayan hazardscape: Strategic ignorance and the production of unequal risk

A Huber - Water, 2019 - mdpi.com
Rapidly expanding hydropower development in areas prone to geological and hydro-
climatic hazards poses multiple environmental and technological risks. Yet, so far these …

Environmental justice movements in globalising networks: A critical discussion on social resistance against large dams

E Shah, J Vos, GJ Veldwisch, R Boelens… - The Journal of …, 2021 - Taylor & Francis
We examine the social resistance against large dams as environmental justice movements
in four case studies-the Sardar Sarovar Project from India, the Hidrosogamoso from …

Politicizing hydroelectric power plants in Portugal: Spatio-temporal injustices and psychosocial impacts of renewable energy colonialism in the Global North

S Batel, S Küpers - Globalizations, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
The extent to which infrastructures being deployed for a postcarbon transition can be
considered sustainable has been increasingly scrutinized within the critical turn in energy …

Urban political ecology beyond methodological cityism

C Connolly - International Journal of Urban and Regional …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
The concept of planetary urbanization has emerged in recent years amongst neo‐
Lefebvrian urban scholars who see urbanization as a process taking place at all spatial …

What misguides environmental risk perceptions in corporations? Explaining the failure of Vale to prevent the two largest mining disasters in Brazil

BM Saes, R Muradian - Resources Policy, 2021 - Elsevier
Corporate misperceptions of environmental risks are relatively frequent and can have
catastrophic consequences, as in the case of the two recent tailings dam breaks in Brazil of …