Annals of the American Association of Geographers,
Journal Year:
2025,
Volume and Issue:
unknown, P. 1 - 32
Published: Jan. 3, 2025
Based
on
extensive
field
research,
this
article
applies
an
Indigenous
energy
injustice
framework
to
a
utility-scale
solar
project.
The
Genesis
Solar
Energy
Center
was
completed
in
2014,
and
it
is
innovative
250
MW
concentrated
power
facility
Riverside
County,
California.
We
explore
the
impact
of
one
authority,
Colorado
River
Indian
Tribes
(CRIT),
given
that
project
site
occupies
landscape
full
cultural
artifacts
from
numerous
civilizations
nations.
Using
mix
expert
interviews,
community
focus
groups,
we
analyze
five
dimensions
complex
associated
with
Racial
injustices
include
discriminatory
ways
distributed
costs
benefits
such
as
occupational
hazards
for
minority
workers,
prompted
intertribal
conflict,
had
disparities
employment
opportunities.
Spatial
interspecies
encompass
Genesis's
multiple
dependence
fossil
fuels
toxic
materials
well
its
contribution
air
pollution
dust,
risk
fires,
deleterious
effects
wildlife,
water
usage.
Recognition
involve
removal
CRIT
burial
remains
territory,
eroding
spiritual
sacredness
places
land,
interference
historic
hunting
practices.
Procedural
colonial
envelop
flawed
consultations,
exclusion
claims
evidence
legal
proceedings,
disregarding
calls
cancel
self-determination
concerns
relate
nonuse
reservation,
burgeoning
security
poverty
needs,
unmet
investments
aging
infrastructure
reservation.
Dialogues in Human Geography,
Journal Year:
2025,
Volume and Issue:
unknown
Published: Feb. 3, 2025
While
a
range
of
rapidly
proliferating
crises
shaped
by
anthropogenic
climate
change
is
profound
and
generating
raft
spatially-centred
energy
research,
geographies
does
not
occupy
central
position
within
emergent
scholarship,
nor
broader
disciplinary
confines
human
geography.
The
centrality
undeniable,
even
in
light
the
considerable
history
scholarship
combined
with
fundamentally
spatial
nature
systems
transitions,
endure
an
occluded
existence
subsumed.
This
paper
offers
critique
subdiscipline's
ongoing
marginality
while
articulating
its
salience
before
offering
strategies
to
help
advance
repositioning
from
periphery
towards
more
position.
