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 2024Green promises, violent realities: how large-scale renewables perpetuate violence in vulnerable regions in Yucatan Mexico
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.
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 2024Introduction: The production of organised violence
This series, inspired by a SPERI workshop in June 2024, explores the intersections between economy and the exercise of organised violence.