Week 8 by Chiara Chiavaroli

TASK

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-- A bullet point structure of the essay
- A one sentence with your core argument
- A list of the two, three main concepts that you would use to
analyse this case study

Western Sahara

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- Context: Introduce the Western Sahara

o Where, who why

o Conflicts

o Who owns it, or not

o Treaty history

- Introduce the energy project

- 1 sentence thesis: Implementation of energy projects manifests as green extracticvism – a neocolonialist activity – neglecting justice and self-determination

o Agents (Spain, EU, Morocco etc)

- The Concepts:

o Neo-colonialism

o Techno-modernism

o Energy justice (and political resistance)

Wind in occupied territories

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Core argument - Renewables are legitimising illegal occupation
Structure: history of region and past occupation approach, how greengrabbing another of the approach, how globally accepted because of greenwashing, continued undermining of rights
Greenwashing - western support because of global targets eg SDGS, green energy demand in Global North (Morocco to Spain energy transfer)
Increases conflict and tension within population e.g. need for money and between occupier and occupied
Greengrabbing - false promises of development via infrastructural colonialism / imperialism

Using the key reading: Making Space for Energy (Jennifer Baka)

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Core argument - the case study demonstrates how changes in fuel production and narratives about biofuel and lands can contribute to and cause dispossession.

Introduce the case study and the history of the specified lands, colonial legacies.

Key concepts: field of observation, energy dispossession, land value/systems of exchange - explore how this differs for the people living off of the land vs the external sources that want to produce jatropha for industrial means.

Cleaner energy transition in Indonesia (LPG)

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Context: Clean energy transition in Indonesia is changing the social & political aspects around it.
Main idea: The use of LPG in Indonesia has been a successful policy implementation in terms of clean energy transitioning but at the the same time is being misused by high income classes. Indonesia should shift LPG subsidies away from the wealthy and use the money to support those who suffer most from the crisis.
Energy justice; carbon democracy; techno-modernism.

Group LMC

2024-11-07 12:54:48 UTC

Ethiopia's Dams

Intro: The relationship between Ethiopia's hydropower dams and its economic development is complex.

Funnel:

P2 Africa

P3 Ethiopia

Background vibes
Colonialism( how the UK gave land to the three different countries involved)
Dam reflects the political ideologies of the time.

P4 Dam

Positives and negatives
Hydropolitics
- Geopolitical tensions
Importance of viewing infrastructure as a whole part of a system and not a an individual
- Social impact

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A System has been created where Morocco’s claims over the Western Sahara have been legitimised due to the Global North’s ingrained need for Energy by actors outwith Morocco.

Ecological Modernisation of Morocco (Global before Local, Modern before tradition and economic above all else)
Creation of Dependency between State and Population (As long as Moroccan Energy is needed by the Global North, Colonial legacy and occupation will be legitimised and perpetuated)
Reducing of autonomy and reducing local population to a proponent in an equation. Global South entering a cost benefit analysis where local people become a variable in an equation rather than having autonomy.