Panel CFP for the ASLE 2025 Biennial Conference, July 8-11 in College Park, MD.

Energy studies often invokes an infrastructural imaginary characterized by brute physicality: pipelines, power stations, and extractive megaprojects. The effects of these physical structures on colonized bodies are physical and tangible: the coal dust that coats the bodies of workers, the oil slick that spreads across the body of the planet. For that reason, we likewise imagine the linked work of transition and decolonization as a physical labor of dismantling and …