Violent transitions
Towards a political ecology of coal and hydropower in India
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 21791978 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Mukul Kumar (0000-0001-8905-8927, University of California, Irvine, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2024 |
| Volume | 16 |
| Issue | 9 |
| Pages | 751-761 |
| Publication date | 2024-10-20 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Climate and Development (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1756-5529 • E-ISSN: 1756-5537 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/17565529.2023.2264259 |
| OpenAlex | W4390104114 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 10 |
| References cited | 53 |
The concept of just transition is often defined as a process of including particular kinds of fossil fuel workers in the transition towards low-carbon energy.Missing from such liberal framings of just transitions is an engagement with how the extraction of both fossil fuels and low-carbon energy is contingent upon state violence and the expropriation of Indigenous and frontline communities' lands.In contrast to liberal framings of just transition that focus on the inclusion of fossil fuel workers as stakeholders, this article calls for an investigation of 'violent transitions', which refers to the ways in which the expansion of fossil fuel and low-carbon energy infrastructures are predicated upon direct state-sanctioned violenceincluding the criminalization of dissent, protests, and mass mobilization through police violence and arreststo facilitate processes of land expropriation.Drawing upon a comparative analysis of 121 coal and hydropower projects in India, the article argues that both coal and hydropower energy transitions are characterized by significant state-sanctioned violence.Such historical injustices must be redressed and repaired in India's emergent just transition policy frameworks
Criminalization · Energy transition · Expropriation · Hydropower · Indigenous · Political ecology · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Environmental Justice and Health Disparities · Hydropower, Displacement, Environmental Impact · Law · Water Governance and Infrastructure · Ecology
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A Dead Sea of Solar Panels
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The Routledge Handbook of Political Ecology
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Our wetland is our mother, you cannot take her away from us’
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Beyond victimisation
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Pluralizing energy justice
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India’s new coal geography
Illuminant intersections
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Too late for indigenous climate justice
Coal and climate change
Spreading ‘green’ infrastructural harm
Investment-Induced Displacement in Central India
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Disassembling Coal
Making Space for Energy
Framing India's Hydraulic Crisis
Embodied urban political ecology
The sun and the scythe
New political ecologies of renewable energy
Geographies of race and ethnicity II
Disastrous hydropower, uneven regional development, and decolonization in India's Eastern Himalayan borderlands
From Incremental Dispossession to a Cumulative Land Grab
Fossil neoliberalism and its limits
Unruly Mountains
Mapping the frontiers and front lines of global environmental justice
Crisis conservation and green extraction
"Wagering Life" in the Petro-City
Sparking a debate on coal
The politics of dispossession and compensation in the eastern Indian coal belt
Rethinking 'just transitions' from coal
| Unique citing works | 10 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 5 |
| Citation span | 2024 - 2026 (3) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 9 |