Dismantling Green Colonialism

Energy and Climate Justice in the Arab Region
Herausgeber: Hamouchene, Hamza; Sandwell, Katie

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Produktbeschreibung

Questioning energy transition in the Arab region using a climate justice lens

Produktdetails

• Transnational Institute
• Verlag: Pluto Press
• Seitenzahl: 320
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. Oktober 2023
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 141mm x 28mm
• Gewicht: 346g
• ISBN-13: 9780745349213
• ISBN-10: 0745349218
• Artikelnr.: 67732739

Autorenporträt

Dr Hamza Hamouchene is a London-based Algerian researcher and activist. He is the North Africa Programme Coordinator at the Transnational Institute (TNI), and a founding member of Algeria Solidarity Campaign (ASC), Environmental Justice North Africa (EJNA) and the North African Food Sovereignty Network (NAFSN). He has written and edited several books including The Arab Uprisings: A decade of struggles and The Struggle for Energy Democracy in the Maghreb. His writings have appeared in Africa Is A Country, Guardian, Huffington Post, Middle East Eye, New Internationalist, Jadaliyya, openDemocracy, ROAR and other places. Katie Sandwell is a Programme Coordinator with the Transnational Institute. She has published on global food sovereignty movements, just transition and land struggles and is co-author of From Crisis to Transformation: What is Just Transition?

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Introduction: Just in Time - The Urgent Need for a Just Transition in the
Arab Region - Hamza Hamouchene and Katie Sandwell
PART I: ENERGY COLONIALISM, UNEQUAL EXCHANGE AND GREEN EXTRACTIVISM
1. The Energy Transition in North Africa: Neocolonialism Again! - Hamza
Hamouchene
2. An Unjust Transition: Energy, Colonialism and Extractivism in Occupied
Western Sahara - Joanna Allan, Hamza Lakhal and Mahmoud Lemaadel
3. Arab-Israeli Eco-Normalization: Greenwashing Settler Colonialism in
Palestine and the Jawlan - Manal Shqair
4. What Can an Old Mine Tell Us about a Just Energy Transition? Lessons
from Social Mobilization across Mining and Renewable Energy in Morocco -
Karen Rignall
5. Towards a Just Agricultural Transition in North Africa - Saker El Nour
6. The Electricity Crisis in Sudan: Between Quick Fixes and Opportunities
for a Sustainable Energy Transition - Razaz H. Basheir and Mohamed Salah
Abdelrahman
PART II: NEOLIBERAL ADJUSTMENTS, PRIVATISATION OF ENERGY AND THE ROLE OF
INTERNATIONAL FINANCIAL INSTITUTIONS
7. International Finance and the Commodification of Electricity in Egypt -
Mohamed Gad
8. The Energy Sector in Jordan: Crises Caused by Dysfunctional and Unjust
Policies - Asmaa Mohammad Amin
9. Renewable Energy in Tunisia: An Unjust Transition - Chafik Ben Rouine
and Flavie Roche
10. The Moroccan Energy Sector: A Permanent Dependence - Jawad Moustakbal
PART III: FOSSIL CAPITALISM AND CHALLENGES TO A JUST TRANSITION
11. A Transition to Where? The Gulf Arab States and the New 'East-East'
Axis of World Oil - Adam Hanieh
12. The Challenges of the Energy Transition in Fossil Fuel Exporting
Countries: The Case of Algeria - Imane Boukhatem
13. Unjust Transitions: The Gulf States' Role in the "Sustainability Shift"
in the Middle East and North Africa - Christian Henderson
About the Contributors
Index