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SUMMARY:Racist dispossession: indigenous territories and wars over energy 
 resources - Josefa Sánchez Contreras
DTSTART:20260217T130000Z
DTEND:20260217T140000Z
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CONTACT:María Inés Hernández
DESCRIPTION:The growing struggle for energy resources manifests as racist 
 dispossession in Indigenous territories. We are witnessing a 21st century 
 where wars over hydrocarbons are intensifying. This year\, 2026\, the rece
 nt invasion of Venezuela exposes this phenomenon\, while at the same time\
 , denialist rhetoric marks a setback in the goal of mitigating the climate
  emergency and achieving an energy transition.\nIn this scenario\, Indigen
 ous peoples are leading another cycle of territorial defenses that reveals
  the close link between decarbonization programs and fossil fuels. This is
  because electrification plans demand minerals that foreshadow further ext
 ractivism. Indigenous rights groups warn that as the environmental catastr
 ophe intensifies\, so do colonial relations\, and racist discourses are re
 surfacing with much greater force in the global north. At the same time\, 
 they expose the fallacies of green transitions\, on which mining extractiv
 ism and the rise of wind and photovoltaic infrastructure in indigenous ter
 ritories of the global south are built and justified.
LOCATION:HB101\, Sir William Hardy Building Seminar Room
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