Eric Cezne
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 311722 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Eric Cezne |
| NOMBRES | Eric |
| APELLIDO | Cezne |
| FIRMA | CEZNE E |
| AFILIACIONES | Utrecht University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-3766-9106 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 13 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 41 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 12 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 1 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2019 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 4 |
Green hydrogen in the Global South
Geographies of hydrogen
Research on hydrogen – embraced as a cornerstone of the so-called global ‘energy transition’ – has mushroomed in recent years and has expanded into new disciplinary, empirical and conceptual terrains. Geographers and geographical thought have been at the forefront of an incipient yet thriving body of social science scholarship on the topic, enriching understandings of spatial, societal, (geo)political and (geo)economic dimensions of hydrogen in d…
A social science researcher at the World Hydrogen Summit
Hydrogen is trending globally but is also contentious. Touted as the ‘fuel of the future’, it can help to decarbonise large swaths of the economy. Yet, hydrogen's speculative rush unfolds amid asymmetrical power geographies, prospects of green extractivism and socio-environmental injustices. These tendencies come vividly to the fore at the World Hydrogen Summit (WHS), the world's largest dedicated event for hydrogen energy, held annually in Rotte…
The Amazon’s road to growth? Infrastructural imaginaries of Brazil’s BR-319 Highway
In the Amazon, roads are closely intertwined with various social livelihood activities but also cause irreversible environmental destruction. As such, roads engender different infrastructural imaginaries of how economic growth should be pursued, signified and contested in rainforest landscapes. This paper focuses on infrastructural imaginaries of Brazil’s BR-319 Highway, an unfinished road that plunges through some of the best-preserved sections …
The making of H2-scapes in the Global South
Clean hydrogen is touted as a cornerstone of the global energy transition. It can help to decarbonize hard-to-electrify sectors, ship renewable power over great distances, and boost energy security. Clean hydrogen's appeal is increasingly felt in the Global South, where countries seek to benefit from production, export, and consumption opportunities, new infrastructures, and technological innovations. These geographies are, however, in the proces…
Racializing China-Africa Relations
While contemporary China-Africa relations are often discussed in (geo)political and economic terms, they cannot be disentangled from 'racial' orderings and tensions. Still, 'race' remains underexplored in these encounters. This article seeks to further the conversation on the role of 'race' in China-Africa relations. We build on the concept of 'racialization' to examine the various ways in which race shapes both the Chinese-in-Africa and Africans…
Africa's Global Infrastructures
The rise and fall of Brazilian extractivism in Africa
At the turn of the millennium, the rise of Southern powers and their firms was filled with a sense of positive change and possibility. The advent of the Brazilian mining giant, Vale S.A., in Africa tellingly captured such ideals and ambitions. Spanning activities from the continent's Atlantic to Indian coasts, Vale went on to become Brazil's largest-ever corporate presence in Africa. Yet, over the years, caught up in complex challenges, business …
The South–South investment that never happened
This article explores the troubled and unsuccessful entry of the Brazilian mining corporation Vale SA in Guinea, which was motivated by ambitions to develop the coveted Simandou iron ore deposits. In doing so, it offers a useful complement to this special issue's focus on the firm's (dis-)engagement in Mozambique and provides a fuller portrait of the company's extractive errands in Africa, from rise to fall. We examine the relationships among key…
Liminally Positioned in the South
This article brings to fore long-standing intricacies and dilemmas in Brazil’s and China’s international positioning. It reveals the complex discursive repertoires shaping the Brazilian and Chinese sense of Self in the world, in the Global South, and, more particularly, in relation to Africa. It engages with the concept of “liminality” to highlight how constructing South–South relationships and invoking Southern identities have been ambiguous, in…
The multiple meanings and uses of South-South relations in extraction
South-South relations have raised hopes of a new development geography - one based on solidarity and more horizontal partnerships among countries in the Global South. In recent years, however, many of these aspirations have proven far-fetched. In the case of Brazil, the presidency of Jair Bolsonaro may even suggest that the South-South hype is now over and done. However, empirical accounts of the engagement of Southern, emerging market-based mult…
Reading Mozambique's mega-project developmentalism through the workplace
Propelled by a commodities boom and expanding South-South investment, mega-projects have reshaped the politics of labour in many African settings. Reflecting on such dynamics, this article critically engages with questions of employment, skills development, and contestation re-configuring capital-labour encounters in the 'Chinese' and 'Brazilian' workplace in Mozambique. We analyse two mega-projects: the Maputo Ring Road, implemented by the China…
Forging transnational ties from below
This paper discusses how the internationalization of the Brazilian mining corporation Vale S.A, particularly its incursion into Mozambique, has given rise to transnational contestation efforts to resist extraction, from below and along a South-South axis. It does so by approaching the politics and practices of mobilization of the International Articulation of those Affected by Vale (AV), paying special attention to the ties forged between Mozambi…
Reading Mozambique's mega-project developmentalism through the workplace
Propelled by a commodities boom and expanding South-South investment, mega-projects have reshaped the politics of labour in many African settings. Reflecting on such dynamics, this article critically engages with questions of employment, skills development, and contestation re-configuring capital-labour encounters in the 'Chinese' and 'Brazilian' workplace in Mozambique. We analyse two mega-projects: the Maputo Ring Road, implemented by the China…
The multiple meanings and uses of South-South relations in extraction
South-South relations have raised hopes of a new development geography - one based on solidarity and more horizontal partnerships among countries in the Global South. In recent years, however, many of these aspirations have proven far-fetched. In the case of Brazil, the presidency of Jair Bolsonaro may even suggest that the South-South hype is now over and done. However, empirical accounts of the engagement of Southern, emerging market-based mult…
Racializing China-Africa Relations
While contemporary China-Africa relations are often discussed in (geo)political and economic terms, they cannot be disentangled from 'racial' orderings and tensions. Still, 'race' remains underexplored in these encounters. This article seeks to further the conversation on the role of 'race' in China-Africa relations. We build on the concept of 'racialization' to examine the various ways in which race shapes both the Chinese-in-Africa and Africans…
The making of H2-scapes in the Global South
Clean hydrogen is touted as a cornerstone of the global energy transition. It can help to decarbonize hard-to-electrify sectors, ship renewable power over great distances, and boost energy security. Clean hydrogen's appeal is increasingly felt in the Global South, where countries seek to benefit from production, export, and consumption opportunities, new infrastructures, and technological innovations. These geographies are, however, in the proces…
The Amazon’s road to growth? Infrastructural imaginaries of Brazil’s BR-319 Highway
In the Amazon, roads are closely intertwined with various social livelihood activities but also cause irreversible environmental destruction. As such, roads engender different infrastructural imaginaries of how economic growth should be pursued, signified and contested in rainforest landscapes. This paper focuses on infrastructural imaginaries of Brazil’s BR-319 Highway, an unfinished road that plunges through some of the best-preserved sections …
Liminally Positioned in the South
This article brings to fore long-standing intricacies and dilemmas in Brazil’s and China’s international positioning. It reveals the complex discursive repertoires shaping the Brazilian and Chinese sense of Self in the world, in the Global South, and, more particularly, in relation to Africa. It engages with the concept of “liminality” to highlight how constructing South–South relationships and invoking Southern identities have been ambiguous, in…
A social science researcher at the World Hydrogen Summit
Hydrogen is trending globally but is also contentious. Touted as the ‘fuel of the future’, it can help to decarbonise large swaths of the economy. Yet, hydrogen's speculative rush unfolds amid asymmetrical power geographies, prospects of green extractivism and socio-environmental injustices. These tendencies come vividly to the fore at the World Hydrogen Summit (WHS), the world's largest dedicated event for hydrogen energy, held annually in Rotte…
The South–South investment that never happened
This article explores the troubled and unsuccessful entry of the Brazilian mining corporation Vale SA in Guinea, which was motivated by ambitions to develop the coveted Simandou iron ore deposits. In doing so, it offers a useful complement to this special issue's focus on the firm's (dis-)engagement in Mozambique and provides a fuller portrait of the company's extractive errands in Africa, from rise to fall. We examine the relationships among key…
Forging transnational ties from below
This paper discusses how the internationalization of the Brazilian mining corporation Vale S.A, particularly its incursion into Mozambique, has given rise to transnational contestation efforts to resist extraction, from below and along a South-South axis. It does so by approaching the politics and practices of mobilization of the International Articulation of those Affected by Vale (AV), paying special attention to the ties forged between Mozambi…
Forging transnational ties from below
This paper discusses how the internationalization of the Brazilian mining corporation Vale S.A, particularly its incursion into Mozambique, has given rise to transnational contestation efforts to resist extraction, from below and along a South-South axis. It does so by approaching the politics and practices of mobilization of the International Articulation of those Affected by Vale (AV), paying special attention to the ties forged between Mozambi…
The South–South investment that never happened
This article explores the troubled and unsuccessful entry of the Brazilian mining corporation Vale SA in Guinea, which was motivated by ambitions to develop the coveted Simandou iron ore deposits. In doing so, it offers a useful complement to this special issue's focus on the firm's (dis-)engagement in Mozambique and provides a fuller portrait of the company's extractive errands in Africa, from rise to fall. We examine the relationships among key…
Liminally Positioned in the South
This article brings to fore long-standing intricacies and dilemmas in Brazil’s and China’s international positioning. It reveals the complex discursive repertoires shaping the Brazilian and Chinese sense of Self in the world, in the Global South, and, more particularly, in relation to Africa. It engages with the concept of “liminality” to highlight how constructing South–South relationships and invoking Southern identities have been ambiguous, in…
The multiple meanings and uses of South-South relations in extraction
South-South relations have raised hopes of a new development geography - one based on solidarity and more horizontal partnerships among countries in the Global South. In recent years, however, many of these aspirations have proven far-fetched. In the case of Brazil, the presidency of Jair Bolsonaro may even suggest that the South-South hype is now over and done. However, empirical accounts of the engagement of Southern, emerging market-based mult…
Reading Mozambique's mega-project developmentalism through the workplace
Propelled by a commodities boom and expanding South-South investment, mega-projects have reshaped the politics of labour in many African settings. Reflecting on such dynamics, this article critically engages with questions of employment, skills development, and contestation re-configuring capital-labour encounters in the 'Chinese' and 'Brazilian' workplace in Mozambique. We analyse two mega-projects: the Maputo Ring Road, implemented by the China…
Africa's Global Infrastructures
The rise and fall of Brazilian extractivism in Africa
At the turn of the millennium, the rise of Southern powers and their firms was filled with a sense of positive change and possibility. The advent of the Brazilian mining giant, Vale S.A., in Africa tellingly captured such ideals and ambitions. Spanning activities from the continent's Atlantic to Indian coasts, Vale went on to become Brazil's largest-ever corporate presence in Africa. Yet, over the years, caught up in complex challenges, business …
A social science researcher at the World Hydrogen Summit
Hydrogen is trending globally but is also contentious. Touted as the ‘fuel of the future’, it can help to decarbonise large swaths of the economy. Yet, hydrogen's speculative rush unfolds amid asymmetrical power geographies, prospects of green extractivism and socio-environmental injustices. These tendencies come vividly to the fore at the World Hydrogen Summit (WHS), the world's largest dedicated event for hydrogen energy, held annually in Rotte…
The Amazon’s road to growth? Infrastructural imaginaries of Brazil’s BR-319 Highway
In the Amazon, roads are closely intertwined with various social livelihood activities but also cause irreversible environmental destruction. As such, roads engender different infrastructural imaginaries of how economic growth should be pursued, signified and contested in rainforest landscapes. This paper focuses on infrastructural imaginaries of Brazil’s BR-319 Highway, an unfinished road that plunges through some of the best-preserved sections …
The making of H2-scapes in the Global South
Clean hydrogen is touted as a cornerstone of the global energy transition. It can help to decarbonize hard-to-electrify sectors, ship renewable power over great distances, and boost energy security. Clean hydrogen's appeal is increasingly felt in the Global South, where countries seek to benefit from production, export, and consumption opportunities, new infrastructures, and technological innovations. These geographies are, however, in the proces…
Racializing China-Africa Relations
While contemporary China-Africa relations are often discussed in (geo)political and economic terms, they cannot be disentangled from 'racial' orderings and tensions. Still, 'race' remains underexplored in these encounters. This article seeks to further the conversation on the role of 'race' in China-Africa relations. We build on the concept of 'racialization' to examine the various ways in which race shapes both the Chinese-in-Africa and Africans…
Green hydrogen in the Global South
Geographies of hydrogen
Research on hydrogen – embraced as a cornerstone of the so-called global ‘energy transition’ – has mushroomed in recent years and has expanded into new disciplinary, empirical and conceptual terrains. Geographers and geographical thought have been at the forefront of an incipient yet thriving body of social science scholarship on the topic, enriching understandings of spatial, societal, (geo)political and (geo)economic dimensions of hydrogen in d…
Politics (8 obras) · Political science (7 obras) · International Development and Aid (6 obras) · Law (6 obras) · Law (5 obras) · Mining and Resource Management (5 obras) · Political economy (5 obras) · Sociology (5 obras) · Economics (4 obras) · Economy (4 obras)