ABSTRACT
This chapter adopts perspectives from political geography and political ecology to understand the extractive, dispossessive, and destructive patterns underlying climate-friendly projects in India; green energy infrastructures are specifically targeting so-called ‘deserted’, ‘empty’, and ‘waste’ lands where subaltern groups (tribal, pastoral, and low-caste communities) have been historically deprived of agency and now face the double cost of climate-related uncertainties and climate change mitigation interventions. These violent logics of climate injustice are in the meantime contested by a diverse range of insubordination acts, open resistance, and a renewed repertoire of political reactions. Drawing from three wind power projects in western borderland Gujarat, this piece hopes to make an empirical contribution to the existing debates on climate (in)justice and green energy.
