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The Arab region, broadly North Africa and the Middle East, is a focus of world politics, with authoritarian regimes, significant fossil fuel reserves, and histories of colonialism, settler colonialism, and imperialism. It is also the site of potentially immense green energy resources.
The writers in this new edited book, Dismantling Green Colonialism: Energy and Climate Justice in the Arab Region, explore a region ripe for energy transition but held back by resource-grabbing and (neo)colonial agendas. They show the importance of fighting for climate justice and a just energy transition informed by decolonization, and exposing/confronting policies and practices that protect global and local political elites, multinational corporations and military regimes.
Covering a wide range of countries from Morocco, Western Sahara, Algeria and Tunisia to Egypt, Sudan, UAE, Saudi Arabia, Jordan and Palestine, this book challenges Eurocentrism. It highlights instead a class-conscious and decolonial approach to climate justice that is necessary for our survival.
The event features one of the editors and a contributor.
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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).
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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.
Manal Shqair is a Palestinian climate activist and researcher. Currently, Manal is doing her PhD in sociology at Queen Margaret University, Scotland. In her PhD thesis she examines the role of Palestinian semi-nomadic women’s everyday practices of sumud (steadfastness) in maintaining and reinforcing group solidarity and in enabling popular resistance to disrupt Israeli settler colonial dispossession intertwined with patriarchy and capitalism.
Leonardo E Figueroa Helland (PhD) (he/him/le’e/el) is Chair and Associate Professor of the Environmental Policy and Sustainability Management graduate (MS) at The New School university (Lenapehoking/Manahatta/New York City). He is Associate Director of the Tishman Environment and Design Center where he leads the Indigeneity and Decolonizing Sustainability program.
