Alexander A. Dunlap

Renewing Destruction

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

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Examines how wind energy projects impact people and their environments.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
• Seitenzahl: 246
• Erscheinungstermin: 21. Juni 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 405g
• ISBN-13: 9781786610669
• ISBN-10: 1786610663
• Artikelnr.: 55312073

Autorenporträt

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).

Inhaltsangabe

Prologue
Chapter 1: Welcome to the Istmo: A Brief History of Politics, Conflict and
Development
Chapter 2: 'We are surrounded:' Living under Wind Turbines in La Ventosa
Chapter 3: Counterinsurgency for Wind Energy: The Bíi Hioxo Wind Park
Chapter 4: Insurrection for Land, Sea and Generational Integrity in Álvaro
Obregón
Chapter 5: The Theatrics and Violence of Consultations: The Free, Prior and
Informed Consent (FPIC) Consultation in Juchitán
Chapter 6: Renewing Destruction: Colonization, the Genocide-Ecocide Nexus
and Wind Energy Development
Conclusion: The Grid System Spreads, Dependency Consolidates
Bibliography
Index
About the Author