Mining matters: Coloniality and the politics of the sustainable energy transition
鉱山の問題：持続可能なエネルギー転換における植民地性と政治 (AI 翻訳)
Cristóbal Bonelli, Sandra Calkins, Andreas Weber
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日本語
本論文は、持続可能なエネルギー転換の言説が鉱山採掘の現実を隠蔽していると批判する。植民地性の分析レンズを用い、採掘慣行の連続性と拡大を歴史的・地理的スケールで検討。ヨーロッパのグリーン技術推進が植民地的論理を継承していると指摘し、転換の救済的物語を問題化するとともに、採掘の未来と不均等な地理に挑戦する。
English
This paper critiques dominant framings of sustainable energy transitions for omitting the realities of mining. Using coloniality as an analytical lens, it examines continuities and expansions of extractive practices across temporal and geographical scales. It argues that colonial logics persist in Europe's push for green technologies, problematizing redemptive transition narratives and challenging expansionist mining futures.
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📝 gxceed 編集解説 — Why this matters
日本のGX文脈において
日本は鉱物資源の大部分を輸入に依存しており、本論文の批判的視点は、GX政策における資源調達の倫理的側面やサプライチェーンの透明性（SSBJ開示など）を再考させる。植民地的構造が再生産されないよう、政策設計への示唆を与える。
In the global GX context
This paper injects a critical perspective into global GX discourse, highlighting that sustainable energy transitions can perpetuate colonial extractive logics. It challenges techno-optimistic narratives and calls for attention to uneven geographies of mining. Relevant for just transition frameworks and critical minerals supply chain governance.
👥 読者別の含意
🔬研究者:Provides a historically informed critique of coloniality in energy transition, valuable for scholars of political ecology and just transitions.
🏛政策担当者:Urges policymakers to consider colonial legacies and power asymmetries in resource procurement and ensure equitable supply chains.
📄 Abstract（原文）
Contemporary talk of sustainable energy transitions, green technologies, or green energy evokes environmentally friendly, benign and forward-looking policy and practice. Typically, such imaginations of a greener energy future avoid mention of the raw mineral realities of mining. To question these dominant policy framings, we use the analytical lens of coloniality to examine continuities, ruptures and expansions of extractive practices on different scales. Our contention is this: Today, long after European colonial rule officially ended, colonial logics and power asymmetries continue to shape mining practices and their afterlives in different parts of the world, and these are evident in Europe’s ongoing push towards sustainable energy technologies. We trace the operations of coloniality on different temporal and/or geographical scales and extend our interest to material politics of mining matters. In this way, we contribute to building a historically informed critique of how coloniality has and continues to frame a seemingly inevitable expansion of mining endeavors – now purportedly in the service of greater environmental goods. This lets us problematize redemptive ideas of ‘transitioning’ societies towards green technologies and opens a space to challenge expansionist imaginations of mining futures and their uneven geographies.
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