Institute at Brown for Environment and Society
Juben Rabbani
Anthropology
Research Interests
Energy transition and electric vehicles, Extractivism, EV infrastructure development, Global North and South relations, State and corporate violence, Political ecology
Pronouns
Any
Biography
My research examines the current energy transition toward renewable energy to decarbonize specifically through the development and adoption of electric vehicles as a "benefit for all." Given the need for critical earth minerals to develop electric vehicles, global sacrifice zones necessitate the transition for some while burdening others. I seek to understand the connection of the EV as a "benefit for all" and the need for sacrifice zones to secure these "collective benefits" in order to sketch out a program for a just vehicular transition.