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The Hidden Cost of Aid: How Colonial Power Structures Persist in Modern Energy Systems
A critical analysis in Energy Research & Social Science examines how humanitarian energy projects, often framed as neutral aid, are entangled with the political and temporal legacies of colonialism. The authors argue that the infrastructure and logic of these projects can perpetuate colonial power grids, leading to the physical and social exhaustion of the communities they aim to serve. This work highlights the complex socio-political dimensions of energy access, moving beyond technical solutions to consider historical injustice and bodily impact.
Why it might matter to you:
This research provides a powerful framework for understanding how systemic, historical forces shape the environmental contexts that individuals must appraise, which is central to your work on emotional emergence. It suggests that the efficiency of emotion regulation strategies cannot be fully assessed without considering the oppressive structures embedded within a person’s physical and social environment. For a social psychologist, this underscores the necessity of integrating macro-level political analysis into models of micro-level emotional and regulatory processes.
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