Sandra Barragan Contreras

Research Associate, Sustainable Consumption Institute, University of Manchester

Green promises, violent realities: how large-scale renewables perpetuate violence in vulnerable regions in Yucatan Mexico

Sandra Barragan Contreras & James Jackson - 25 November 2024

Mexico’s Yucatan Peninsula reveals that renewable energy projects perpetuate forms of hidden violence against local ecosystems and indigenous communities. In a global push for large-scale solar and wind deployment, lives, livelihoods and cultures are being erased.

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Introduction: The production of organised violence

Elena Simon, Remi Edwards, Vicki Reif-Breitwieser, Joanna Tidy, Sandra Barragan Contreras, James Jackson, Baris Celik and David Yates - 25 November 2024

This series, inspired by a SPERI workshop in June 2024, explores the intersections between economy and the exercise of organised violence.

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