Solar Power Capitalism by Nathanael Ojong
This book demonstrates how Africa’s celebrated green-energy transition rests on hidden structures of exploitation and inequality. Drawing on over 300 interviews across Ghana, Kenya, Tanzania, Malawi, and Cameroon, the book illustrates how solar power expands through what the author terms insertion: the patterned incorporation of people, ecologies, and institutions into infrastructures of accumulation, and depletion, the bodily, ecological, and temporal exhaustion through which those infrastructures are sustained. Beginning with colonial electrification schemes that privileged mines and settlers, the book follows the engineering of global solar energy markets, the rise of pay-as-you-go household finance, and the toxic afterlives of solar waste. Later chapters reveal how women’s labor, time, and credit become the unacknowledged infrastructure of solar power capitalism, and how communities navigate enclosure, debt, and ecological harm. The book redefines what a just energy transition means in the twenty-first century.
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The Rise and Fall of Carbon Emissions Trading
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The Political Economy of Sustainable Energy
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Sustainable Energy
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Climate Change Resilience Across Societal Contexts
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Off-Grid Solar Electrification in Africa
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From Economic to Energy Transition
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Energy Efficiency and Sustainable Consumption
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Living in a Low-Carbon Society in 2050
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Can Cities, States and Regions Save Our Planet?
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Learning from Wind Power
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Keeping Cool in Southeast Asia
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The European Commission's Energy and Climate Policy
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The Politics of Nuclear Energy in China
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Energy Transitions
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Renewable Energy in the UK
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Just Energy Transitions and Coal Bed Methane
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Vehicle-to-Grid
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Energy Security in the Era of Climate Change
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Wind Power in Europe
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Nuclear Energy Development in Asia
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The Growth of Biofuels in the 21st Century
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The Governance of Energy in China
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Energy for the Future
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Environmental Sustainability in Transatlantic Perspective
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A Critical Review of Scottish Renewable and Low Carbon Energy Policy
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Energy Poverty and Access Challenges in Sub-Saharan Africa
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Energy Justice
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Ecological Modernisation and Renewable Energy
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Energy Security in Europe
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Energy Transitions and the Future of Gas in the EU
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The Renewal of Nuclear Power in Finland
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Global Warming and Climate Change
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Governance Approaches to Mitigation of and Adaptation to Climate Change in Asia
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Climate Change and Order
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New Challenges in Energy Security
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The New Economics of Sustainable Consumption
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European Energy Security
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The Politics and Institutions of Global Energy Governance
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Engaging Communities in Climate Action
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Indigenous Peoples and Climate Justice
Nathanael Ojong is Associate Professor of International Development Studies at York University, Canada. His research examines energy, finance, and inequality in Africa.
| SKU | Unavailable |
| ISBN 13 | 9783032137067 |
| ISBN 10 | 3032137063 |
| Title | Solar Power Capitalism |
| Author | Nathanael Ojong |
| Series | Energy Climate And The Environment |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Springer Nature Switzerland AG |
| Year published | 2026-03-30 |
| Number of pages | 226 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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