Oppressive Energopolitics in Africa’s Last Colony: Energy, Subjectivities, and Resistance

Focusing on energy developments and infrastructure in Moroccan-occupied Western Sahara, this article engages with the politics of citizenship situations conflict, authoritarianism settler colonialism. We contribute to body research how infrastructure, including renewable furthers (neo)colonial social political power imbalances. Using Dominic Boyer’s concept energopower, which allows us explore is used govern populations produce subjectivities, we argue that a colonial oppressive energoregime will subjects hostile itself. Putting colonised people’s lived experiences perceptions an system centre stage, further interrelationship between identity by showing can inadvertently foster rejection certain citizenships national identities favour others. Our data are generated using ethnography semi-structured interviews Saharawis living Sahara.