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Situates the notion of 'energy crisis' in mountain communities of Pakistan to explore the impact of Belt and Road initiative- China-Pakistan Economic Corridor.
This paper delves into the nuanced backdrop of energy crisis in Hunza and the role of China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) in worsening the crisis whilst perpetuating several precarities. Using feminist and oral history frameworks, this study investigates the everyday experiences of people who are susceptible to the precarities induced by transnational infrastructure and development projects. Moreover, it argues how the use of the notion ‘energy crisis’ in recent protests and news escalates the idea that ‘energy crisis’ is a new phenomenon while erasing the local inhabitants’ experiences that emanate from unjust structures which have been exploiting both the people and nature of Hunza for decades. It also interrogates, if the use of the discourse ‘energy crisis’ in policy debates actually addresses the deeply entrenched inequities resulting from colonialism and environmental extractivism.
Keywords: energy crisis, China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC), precarities, Hunza, colonialism, environmental extractivism.