Saharan Winds

Energy Systems and Aeolian Imaginaries in Western Sahara

Häftad, Engelska, 2024

429 kr

Beställningsvara. Skickas inom 5-8 vardagar. Fri frakt för medlemmar vid köp för minst 249 kr.

As climate crisis ensues, a transition away from fossil fuels becomes urgent. However, some renewable energy developments are propagating injustices such as landgrabs, colonial dispossession, and environmentally destructive practices. Changing the way we imagine and understand wind will help us ensure a globally just wind energy future. Saharan Winds contributes to a fairer energy horizon by illuminating the role of imaginaries--how we understand energy sources such as wind and the meanings we attach to wind--in determining the wider politics, whether oppressive or just, associated with energy systems. This book turns to various cultures and communities across different time periods in one space, Western Sahara, to explore how wind imaginaries affect the development, management, and promotion of windfarms; the distribution of energy that windfarms produce; and, vitally, the type of politics mediated by all these elements combined. Highlighting the wind-fueled oppression of colonial energy systems, the book shows the potential offered by nomadic, Indigenous wind imaginaries for contributing to a fairer energy future.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum2024-10-01
Mått152 x 229 x 16 mm
Vikt454 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
SerieEnergy and Society
Antal sidor268
FörlagWest Virginia University Press
ISBN9781959000235

Tillhör följande kategorier

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