06 November 2026
Defending Indigenous Territories Through Law and Collective Power
Law’s capacity to transform unequal power relations depends on how legal action supports community organising and whether this support remains guided by communities’ own priorities and decisions. This matters because energy projects begin to transform territories before construction starts: Contracts establish claims over land, permits authorise particular uses, and administrative procedures determine whose participation counts. Indigenous peoples challenging these projects must therefore engage with institutions whose decisions helped make them possible. Continue reading >>
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10 February 2026
Who Decides, Who Pays, Who is Sacrificed
The energy transition has become a central normative axis of global climate action. However, the acceleration of renewable energy, frequently presented as inherently positive, is not politically neutral. On the contrary, it unfolds asymmetrically across territories marked by deep historical power imbalances, particularly in the Global South. This article puts forward the proposition that a truly reflexive energy transition necessarily requires not only recognising harms and measuring impacts but also dismantling entrenched forms of control, authority, and epistemic hierarchy within the governance of the transition itself. Continue reading >>
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