Counter-mapping Complicity

As we see, in tracing energy extraction and consumption we are following the entrails of imperialism’s bloody footprints. It is ethnic cleansing, the devastation of traditional societies and incarceration of populations that is the necessary component to exploit natural resources, and it is the use of that resource that powers military genocides in Palestine, Armenia and beyond. In spite of this, insurgent cartographies across time and space have transformed these energy sites into sites of contestation. Through strikes, blockades and protests organised by workers and activists, popular movements have sought to dismantle these flows of energy and their colonial apparatuses, including from within genocidal states like Turkey.