Decolonizing Energy

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This conference, the eleventh installment of Georgetown University in Qatar’s acclaimed Hiwaraat series, will generate critical insights into decolonizing energy.

Decolonizing Energy convenes a series of urgent public discussions with leading scholars, artists, and writers in the emerging field of decolonial energy studies. It will create space to develop a new energy dialogue oriented toward and located in the Global South, one which foregrounds energetic liberation. It will invite Doha’s cosmopolitan community into the ongoing conversation about the cultural and political facets of our energy system. By revisiting the decolonial project through the perspective of energy, this symposium addresses the colonial legacies of the energy systems we live in and with, while also considering historical and contemporary visions of “taking back power” and energy justice.