The promise of green energy rests on landscapes of harm that sustain accumulation through the exhaustion of people, ecologies, and more-than-human beings. Drawing on fieldwork in Ghana’s Awaso bauxite mine, Kaleo-Lawra solar plant, and Agbogbloshie e-waste scrapyard, the chapter illustrates how insertion ties communities, bodies, and environments into the infrastructures of global green value, while depletion registers in bauxite dust-laden bodies, fenced commons, and toxic residues. These sites reveal that the costs of solar energy are constitutive of its political economy. Through the intertwined frameworks of structural violence and necropolitics, the chapter shows how the infrastructures of sustainability depend on bodily and ecological depletion that is racialized, gendered, and classed. Pollution, enclosure, and exhaustion emerge as the hidden scaffolding of solar power capitalism, exposing how the so-called clean energy depends on the slow violence of sacrifice zones.

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Toxic Landscapes

  • Nathanael Ojong

摘要

The promise of green energy rests on landscapes of harm that sustain accumulation through the exhaustion of people, ecologies, and more-than-human beings. Drawing on fieldwork in Ghana’s Awaso bauxite mine, Kaleo-Lawra solar plant, and Agbogbloshie e-waste scrapyard, the chapter illustrates how insertion ties communities, bodies, and environments into the infrastructures of global green value, while depletion registers in bauxite dust-laden bodies, fenced commons, and toxic residues. These sites reveal that the costs of solar energy are constitutive of its political economy. Through the intertwined frameworks of structural violence and necropolitics, the chapter shows how the infrastructures of sustainability depend on bodily and ecological depletion that is racialized, gendered, and classed. Pollution, enclosure, and exhaustion emerge as the hidden scaffolding of solar power capitalism, exposing how the so-called clean energy depends on the slow violence of sacrifice zones.