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Alexander Dunlap is a postdoctoral research fellow at Boston University Institute for Global Sustainability (IGS), USA, and docent in the Global Development Studies Department, University of Helsinki, Finland. Their work has critically examined police-military transformations, market-based conservation, wind energy development and extractive projects more generally in Latin America, Europe and the United States. This includes examining how lower-carbon energy projects rely on conventional hydrocarbons for their development, meanwhile military operations are advanced by integrating wind, solar and other lower-carbon energy systems.
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Alexander Dunlap es investigador postdoctoral en el Boston University Institute for Global Sustainability (IGS), EE.UU., y profesor en el área de Estudios de Desarrollo Global de la University of Helsinki (Finlandia). La investigación de Dunlap aborda de forma crítica las transformaciones en los sectores policial y militar, la conservación de la naturaleza orientada al mercado, el desarrollo de la energía eólica y los proyectos extractivos en América Latina, Europa y Estados Unidos. Esto incluye el análisis de cómo los proyectos para la generación de energía con menores emisiones de carbono dependen de los combustibles convencionales durante su desarrollo y cómo, al mismo tiempo, las operaciones militares se ven impulsadas por la integración de sistemas de energía eólica, solar y otros sistemas con emisiones.
Contribution to the project
Alexander Dunlap’s research under the Extractivism project seeks to further investigation on green extractivism across the globe. This includes research on established and prospective critical raw material mines, as well as exploration of green extractivism through multiple facets. Among these, Dunlap examines how lower-carbon energy generation technologies are integrated and advanced in mining operations across various sites, as well as in military and police operations.
recent publications
Dunlap, A. (2026). Total extractivism: welcome to the open cabal of ‘more is more’ & ‘all energy.’ Globalizations, 1–11. VIEW PUBLICATION
Dunlap, A. (2026). Love the state, but hate (neo)colonialism? Discussing sacrifice zones and (green) colonialism in political ecology. Geo: Geography and Environment, 13(1), 1–18. VIEW PUBLICATION
Dunlap, A., & Sovacool, B. K. (2026). Do solar panels get recycled? Exploring the political ecology and toxic geographies of solar panel disposal. Human Geography. Advance online publication. VIEW PUBLICATION
Dunlap, A., & Edwards, N. (2026). Armed “green” disaster capitalism: How the “climate conflict” narrative sustains war and socioecological catastrophe. Geopolitics. Advance online publication. VIEW PUBLICATION


