Development and Change,
Год журнала:
2025,
Номер
unknown
Опубликована: Июнь 4, 2025
ABSTRACT
In
current
debates,
green
energy
is
often
presented
as
an
opportunity
for
peripheral
states
and
regions
to
take
a
lead
in
production
challenge
their
status.
This
article
offers
counterview.
It
builds
on
qualitative
fieldwork
at
the
Zhanatas
100
MW
Wind
Power
Plant
southern
Kazakhstan
—
Central
Asia's
largest
wind
farm
time
of
construction.
On
terrain
considered
by
some
be
‘wasteland’,
captured,
extracted
centralized
emerging
resource.
At
same
time,
nomadic
population
remain
politically
marginalized
land
its
many
non‐human
inhabitants
continue
ecologically
vulnerable.
argues
that
long‐term
effect
can
described
changing
state
power
within
unchanging
unequal
centre–periphery
relations.
The
provides
theoretical
contribution
understanding
how
substantially
reconstruct
each
other
ground;
it
furthers
our
knowledge
relationship
between
space
under
conditions
transition,
advocates
focus
spatial
historical
inequalities
context
production.
