The Political Economy of Environmental Justice. Edited by H. Spencer Banzhaf. Pp. xvi, 280, Stanford/London, Stanford University Press, 2012, £42.00.

2015 ◽  
Vol 56 (3) ◽  
pp. 540-541
Author(s):  
Agneta Sutton
Keyword(s):  
Political Economy ◽  
Environmental Justice ◽  
The Political ◽  
Stanford University

scholarly journals Clean development or the development of dispossession? The political economy of wind parks in Southern Mexico

2021 ◽  
pp. 251484862199176
Author(s):  
Chris Hesketh
Keyword(s):  
Political Economy ◽  
Environmental Justice ◽  
Indigenous Communities ◽  
The Political ◽  
Place Making ◽  
Southern Mexico ◽  
Alternative Pathways ◽  
Indigenous Resistance ◽  
Wind Park

Through an investigation of the political economy of wind park development in Oaxaca, southern Mexico, I explore the contested meaning of environmental justice. I contend that, despite their seemingly benign image, wind parks in Oaxaca operate within a spatially abstracted, colonial epistemology of capital-centred development. This involves a remaking of space and an appropriation of nature on behalf of capital. Concomitantly, it also involves a process of dispossession for Indigenous communities, foreclosing alternative pathways of development. I contrast this project of place-making with a subaltern-centred conception of environmental justice informed by Indigenous resistance.

Sign in / Sign up

Export Citation Format

Share Document