We are pleased to welcome Dr. Rosemary Mwanza and Dr. Linda Mensah as consultant researchers leading two research case studies under our broader work on green colonialism and climate reparations. Both projects examine how climate and energy transitions risk reproducing colonial patterns of extraction, dispossession, and gendered harm, and what structural forms of accountability and redress should follow.
Kenya | Carbon Markets and Climate Debt
Dr. Rosemary Mwanza will investigate the human rights impacts of carbon offset projects in Kenya. Using a gender-centered and genealogical lens, her research traces how colonial land regimes, postcolonial conservation models, and investor-driven carbon markets intersect to produce gendered harm. Her research aims to articulate grounded legal and normative claims for climate reparations that address structural and historical injustice.
Dr. Rosemary Mwanza
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Ghana | Lithium Mining and the Green Economy
Dr. Linda Mensah will examine the gendered implications of lithium extraction in Ghana. Her research situates the country's emerging green minerals policy within longer histories of colonial land control, large-scale mining bias, and women’s exclusion from compensation and governance processes. It asks whether “just transition” narratives risk reinforcing extractivist and patriarchal dynamics and how women are mobilizing in response.
Dr. Linda Mensah
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This work forms part of our broader effort to document climate harm as part of a colonial continuum — and to advance climate reparations as structural redress.
