Book Launch | Green Colonialism: Energy and Climate Justice in Arab Countries
On 27 April 2026, at 6:00 pm, the Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences of the University of Porto (FPCEUP) will host the launch of the book Green Colonialism (Vol. 2): Energy and Climate Justice in Arab Countries, to take place in Auditorium 2C.
Admission is free.
Edited by Hamza Hamouchene and Katie Sandwell, this volume offers a critical analysis of energy and climate transitions in Arab countries, questioning dominant policy models and highlighting their political, social and environmental implications. The book makes an important contribution to international debates on climate and energy justice, green colonialism and emancipatory alternatives in the Global South.
The book will be presented by Hamza Hamouchene, researcher at the Transnational Institute, and Carla Malafaia, researcher at the Centre for Research and Intervention in Education (CIIE), FPCEUP.
This initiative reflects CIIE’s commitment to fostering critical thinking, interdisciplinary research and informed public debate on contemporary global challenges, particularly in the fields of education, democracy, and social and environmental justice.
Venue: FPCEUP, Auditorium 2C
Date: 27 April 2026
Time: 6:00 pm
Admission: Free
Schedule
Start date: 18:00 - 27 Apr 2026
End date: 19:30 - 27 Apr 2026
Speakers
Hamza Hamouchene is an Algerian activist-researcher based in London. He is a founding member of the Algerian Solidarity Campaign (ASC), the Environmental Justice Network of North Africa (EJNA), and the North African Food Sovereignty Network (Siyada). He is currently the program coordinator for the Arab region at the Transnational Institute. His work focuses on themes such as extractivism, resources, land and food sovereignty, and climate, environmental, and energy justice in the Arab region. He is the author/editor of three other books: *The Arab Uprisings: A Decade of Struggles* (2022), *The Struggle for Energy Democracy in the Maghreb* (2017), and *The Future Revolution of North Africa: The Struggle for Climate Justice* (2015, in Arabic). He has also contributed chapters to several books, including The Oxford Handbook of Economic Imperialism (2022), The Routledge Essential Guide to Critical Development Studies (2021), Fanon Today: Reason and Revolt of the Wretched of the Earth (2021), A Region in Revolt: Mapping the Recent Uprisings in North Africa and West Asia (2020), The Palgrave Encyclopaedia of Imperialism and Anti-Imperialism (2016) and Voices of Liberation: Frantz Fanon (2014).
Carla Malafaia is Assistant Professor at the Faculty of Psychology and Education Sciences of the University of Porto (FPCEUP). She is a Researcher at the Centre for Research and Intervention in Education (CIIE-U.Porto) and collaborator at the Center for Sociology of Democracy (CSD-U.Helsinki). Her research focuses on youth participation, climate activism, visual politics and educational inequalities, across the fields of political education, political sociology, youth studies and social movements. She coordinates the EDigiPolis project (FCT), on youth democratic (dis)engagement through visual-digital tools, and co-coordinates the CIVITAS project (Norte2030) on building climate adaptation in community deliberative spaces. She was local coordinator of the University of Porto team in the JustFutures project (FCT) and WP leader in the ClimActiC project (Norte2020). She is Editor-in-Chief of the European Journal of Cultural and Political Sociology (EJCPS), published by MIT Press. She has co-authored 4 books and over 50 articles in journals such as Social Movement Studies, Environmental Politics, Research in Education, Visual Studies and Ethnography & Education, as well as chapters published by Routledge and Palgrave Macmillan.