Joanna Allan is Associate Professor in Global Development at Northumbria University, UK.

• AcknowledgementsIntroduction1. The Sea without Water: Navigators, Traders and Wind Pathologies in Western Sahara2. The Red Wind: Aeolian Anxieties and Energy Infrastructure in Spanish Sahara3. The Tamed Winds: Siemens and Settler Colonialism in Moroccan-Occupied Western Sahara4. The Tallīya: Saharawi Perceptions of an Oppressive Energoregime5. The Gallāba: Windblown Desertscapes and the Friendship Generation6. The Sirocco: Wind as Harbinger in Arabic-Language Cultural Production7. The Gblīya: Electricity in the Camps and a Nomadic Energy Future8.  The Sirocco: Saharan Winds and Solidarity in Spanish Writing and ArtConclusionGlossaryNotesBibliographyIndex

"The mixture of archival, literary and fieldwork-derived ethnographic material is a refreshing approach . . . within the field of energy humanities."—Dominic Boyer, author of Energopolitics: Wind and Power in the Anthropocene"A novel approach into the intersection between colonialism and wind energy extraction."—Alexander Dunlap, author of Enforcing Ecocide: Power, Policing, and Planetary Militarization