@misc{10481/94874,
year = {2023},
month = {6},
url = {https://hdl.handle.net/10481/94874},
abstract = {This article aims to define the category of energy colonialism in order to analyse the conflicts
that are arising due to the deployment of renewable energy megaprojects in the Global South and in
the peripheries of the Global North. First, the limits of the corporate energy transition are questioned,
and based on an exhaustive bibliographic review, the category of energy colonialism is formulated
along with six dimensions that characterise it: geopolitical; economic and financial inequalities; power,
violence, and decision making; land grabbing and dispossession; impacts on territories and commons;
resistance and socio-territorial conflicts. Based on this framework, we analyse and juxtapose different
expressions of energy colonialism in four case studies; the isthmus of Tehuantepec (Oaxaca, Mexico),
the territories ofWestern Sahara occupied by Morocco, the Saami territory in Norway, and the rural
territories of Spain. The results from this study allow us to conclude that energy colonialism is a
useful concept for understanding and critiquing the effects of the corporate energy transition and
establishing a base for grassroots and decolonial alternatives in both the Global North and South.},
organization = {TED2021-130035B-100, funded by MCIN/AEI/10.13039/501100011033 and by the European Union “NextGenerationEU”/PRTR},
publisher = {MDPI},
keywords = {Energy colonialism},
keywords = {Eenewable energy megaprojects},
keywords = {Corporate energy transition},
title = {Energy Colonialism: A Category to Analyse the Corporate Energy Transition in the Global South and North},
doi = {10.3390/land12061241},
author = {Sánchez Contreras, Josefa and Matarán Ruiz, Alberto and Campos Celador, Alvaro and Fjellheim, Eva Maria},
}