Solar Power Capitalism
Springer International Publishing (Verlag)
978-3-032-13706-7 (ISBN)
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This book demonstrates how Africa s celebrated green-energy transition rests on hidden structures of exploitation and inequality. Drawing on over 300 interviews across Ghana, Kenya, Tanzania, Malawi, and Cameroon, the book illustrates how solar power expands through what the author terms insertion: the patterned incorporation of people, ecologies, and institutions into infrastructures of accumulation, and depletion, the bodily, ecological, and temporal exhaustion through which those infrastructures are sustained. Beginning with colonial electrification schemes that privileged mines and settlers, the book follows the engineering of global solar energy markets, the rise of pay-as-you-go household finance, and the toxic afterlives of solar waste. Later chapters reveal how women s labor, time, and credit become the unacknowledged infrastructure of solar power capitalism, and how communities navigate enclosure, debt, and ecological harm. The book redefines what a just energy transition means in the twenty-first century.
Nathanael Ojong is Associate Professor of International Development Studies at York University, Canada. His research examines energy, finance, and inequality in Africa.
Chapter 1: A Framework for Engaging Solar Energy Capitalism.- Chapter 2: Historicizing the Ascendance of Solar Energy Deployment in sub-Saharan Africa.- Chapter 3: Solar Energy and Structural Dependency in the Postcolony.- Chapter 4: Financial Intermediation, Debt, and Solar-fueled Accumulation.- Chapter 5: Solar Power and the (Re)production of Class and Gendered Violence.- Chapter 6: Solar Power, Solar Waste, and Environmental Destruction.
| Erscheint lt. Verlag | 6.4.2026 |
|---|---|
| Reihe/Serie | Energy, Climate and the Environment |
| Zusatzinfo | Approx. 255 p. 14 illus. |
| Verlagsort | Cham |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 148 x 210 mm |
| Themenwelt | Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Geschichte der Philosophie |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Philosophie der Neuzeit | |
| Naturwissenschaften ► Geowissenschaften ► Geografie / Kartografie | |
| Technik ► Elektrotechnik / Energietechnik | |
| Schlagworte | Cameroon • class violence • dispossession • Environmental Degradation • Exploitation • Financial Intermediation • gendered violence • Ghana • Global capitalism • Inequality • Kenya • Malawi • Mineral Resource Extraction • Post-Colonialism • Solar energy • solar waste management • Sub-Saharan Africa • Tanzania |
| ISBN-10 | 3-032-13706-3 / 3032137063 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-3-032-13706-7 / 9783032137067 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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