The 'Green War
Geopolitical Metabolism and Green Extractivisms
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3948596 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Erik Post (0000-0002-0085-0182, University of British Columbia, corresponding author), Philippe Le Billon (0000-0002-4635-2998, University of British Columbia) |
| Year | 2025 |
| Volume | 30 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 760-800 |
| Publication date | 2025-03-15 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Geopolitics (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1465-0045 • E-ISSN: 1557-3028 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/14650045.2024.2385411 |
| OpenAlex | W4401596107 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 14 |
| References cited | 127 |
Through ‘green transitions’ and ‘climate action’, geopolitical actors seem to be vying for dominance based on justifications that articulate geopolitical, economic, and ecological concerns. This ‘Green War’ geopolitical framing advances and consolidates imperial power through policies seeking to promote and secure ‘low carbon technology’ and ‘critical minerals’ supply chains, intensifying what we see as a novel ‘geopolitical metabolism’. Whereas geopolitical metabolisms used to notably focus on controlling the flow of fossil fuels, there is a growing emphasis on the ‘green extractivisms’ that underpin ‘green transition’ initiatives. This Green War framing and accompanying geopolitical metabolism enable states and corporations to advance and consolidate imperial power by capturing and perverting a much-needed geo-politics, or ‘politics of the Earth’. As such, we challenge the Green War geopolitical framing as part of the crucial effort to articulate an alternative geo-politics that promotes peace while reducing and redistributing energetic and material flows
Archaeology · Biology · Geography · Geopolitics · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Climate Change and Geoengineering · Global Energy and Sustainability Research · Law · Transboundary Water Resource Management
Geographies of war and violence II
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From resource security to resource securitisation
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Reframing Climate Change
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Capitalism in the web of life
Climate Leviathan
Ecological Imperialism
The Malacca Strait, the South China Sea and the Sino-American Competition in the Indo-Pacific
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The International Handbook of Political Ecology
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A Green New Deal without growth
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Mining green minerals with the Taliban
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Social warfare for lithium extraction? Open-pit lithium mining, counterinsurgency tactics and enforcing green extractivism in northern Portugal
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The Environmental Footprint of War
Hegemonic transitions and global shifts in social metabolism
Environmental and land defenders
Global patterns of ecologically unequal exchange
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Green extractivism and financialisation in Mozambique
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On the Threshold
The myth of ‘debt-trap diplomacy’ and realities of Chinese development finance
Resource Rebels
Getting the territory right
Stuck in the Middle
Ecological Imperialism and the Global Metabolic Rift
China and the geopolitics of rare earths
Hidden carbon costs of the “everywhere war”
Alter-geopolitics
The Violent Technologies of Extraction
The Natures of War
The evolving techniques of the social engineering of extraction
The Twenty Years’ Crisis of European Energy Security
The EU’s Botched Geopolitical Approach to External Energy Policy
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European Green Deal necropolitics
Volatile Photovoltaics
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The Socio-scientific Construction of Global Climate Crisis
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Introduction
The 'Pivot to the East' and China in Russian Discourse
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Climate Necropolitics
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The Three Deaths of Cerro de San Pedro
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Oro blanco
Global extractivisms and transformative alternatives
From extractivism to global extractivism
Green Grabbing
| Unique citing works | 14 |
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| Citations per year | 14 |
| Citation span | 2025 - 2026 (2) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 13 |