Mohammed Usrof

Writer and researcher: energy, infrastructure, and colonial power

Work

Research and writing, organised by theme. Each theme is a strand of one argument about how energy and infrastructure organise colonial power, and how people build otherwise.

Fossil empire and infrastructural rule

How energy infrastructures govern: from Mandate-era electrification keyed to settlement, to Gaza's electricity-as-siege, to geoengineering as the newest climate colonialism.

Supply chains and corporate complicity

Following materials through circuits of extraction, logistics, and profit: oil tanker routes, military emissions, embargo politics, and the calculations behind climate reparations.

Gendered ecologies and intersecting violence

How environmental destruction inscribes itself on women's bodies, time, and labour. Feminist political ecology under occupation: reproductive harm, care work, and the gendered violence of energy denial.

Petroculture and post-fossil futures

The cultural life of fossil fuels: food, music, memory, and speculative writing on liberation energy and what comes after oil.