The counterinsurgent work of green transition financing in Africa
アフリカにおけるグリーン移行金融の反乱鎮圧的機能 (AI 翻訳)
Wangui Kimari, Henrik Ernstson
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日本語
本稿では、アフリカのグリーン移行金融が、植民地的な構造を強化し、地域の変革を阻害する可能性を批判的に検討する。特に「アフリカの世紀」という物語が新たな搾取を隠蔽し、国家暴力が「グリーン移行」の名の下に拡大していると論じる。
English
This contention article critically examines green transition financing in Africa, arguing that it may reinforce colonial structures and deflect local demands for structural change. It highlights how narratives of an 'African Century' obscure continued extractivism, and how state violence expands under the guise of a green transition.
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📝 gxceed 編集解説 — Why this matters
日本のGX文脈において
日本では、アフリカへのグリーン投資や移行金融が注目される中、本稿はその前提となる権力構造を問い直す視点を提供する。特に、日本の国際協力や民間投資がどのような影響を及ぼすか考える際に示唆に富む。
In the global GX context
This paper offers a critical perspective on transition finance that is highly relevant for global discussions on just transition and green colonialism. It challenges the assumption that financing automatically leads to equitable outcomes, urging policymakers and investors to consider the political and historical context.
👥 読者別の含意
🔬研究者:For GX researchers, this paper provides a critical framework to analyze the political economy of transition finance in the Global South.
🏢実務担当者:For corporate sustainability teams, it serves as a cautionary note on how green investments can inadvertently perpetuate inequalities.
🏛政策担当者:For policymakers, it highlights the need to integrate social justice and anti-colonial perspectives into green finance frameworks.
📄 Abstract（原文）
In this contention article, we look at recent events and narratives shaping formal green transition practices in Africa, and interrogate whether financing, demanded by both states and activists, will actually enable a recalibration in the power and energy relations on the continent. Our position is that, against the imperial scaffolding and unequal historical assemblages that are the foundation for the world today, forms of finance—whether as “loss and damages” or the “new global financing pact”—proposed by multiple African actors can serve to deflect and deny local impetus for structural change. We explore the counterinsurgent work of this financing through two key movements: the first is via discussing how energy transition narratives on the continent are increasingly framed as the opportunity for an agential “African Century,” rather than the continuation of racialized extractivism—business as usual. The second is through calling for more radical attention to that which is being off-staged in formal climate conversations: this is the expansion of state violence to enact a “green transition” and in response to communities’ resistance to forms of green coloniality.
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- openalex https://doi.org/10.1177/19427786261440882first seen 2026-05-15 16:49:22
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