Dismantling Green Colonialism: Energy and Climate Justice in the Arab Region - edited by Hamza Hamouchene & Katie Sandwell (Pluto Press) Edition sui generis evocation of mothers’

sui generis evocation of mothers’ feelings of fear and loss

she conceived “Surroundings

Here is a poetics that bursts forth

Part springtime journal (“why are there thorns

or Gertrude Stein’s poetry

Dismantling Green Colonialism: Energy and Climate Justice in the Arab Region - edited by Hamza Hamouchene & Katie Sandwell (Pluto Press) Edition sui generis evocation of mothers’The Arab region is a focus of world politics, with authoritarian regimes, significant fossil fuel reserves and histories of colonialism and imperialism. It is also the site of potentially immense green energy resources. The writers in this collection explore a region ripe for energy transition, but held back by resource grabbing and (neo)colonial agendas. They show the importance of fighting for a just energy transition and climate justice exposing