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Paper short abstract

This article develops an Arrighi-inspired perspective on production injustices during the current transition by examining how the global wind value chain perpetuates knowledge dependency through peripheralisation, drawing on a comparison of Brazil’s and India’s wind sectors.

Paper long abstract

This article develops an Arrighi-inspired perspective on the just transition by examining how the global wind value chain perpetuates production injustices through peripheralisation. Expanding on the JUST framework, we conceptualise justice as an outcome of historically constituted value-chain positioning within the emerging green division of labour. Drawing on a positive-outcome comparative design of Brazil’s and India’s wind sectors, based on secondary data, trade and patent statistics, and interviews with industry experts, we demonstrate how both countries’ integration into the wind value chain has led to subordinate, knowledge-dependent positions. In Brazil, local content policies have externalised adaptation tasks to foreign original equipment manufacturers (OEMs); in India, liberalised deployment policies have favoured foreign dominance after Suzlon’s speculative collapse. These dynamics reveal that, without challenging the governance of transnational value chains, green transitions risk deepening — rather than overcoming — core-periphery production injustices that underpin the capitalist world-system.