Eric Cezne

Eric Cezne is a Postdoctoral Researcher at the ASCL, working on the political geographies of energy transitions and decarbonization in Africa (especially in the realm of green hydrogen). More broadly, his research interests include Africa’s South–South relations, infrastructure politics, the extractive industries, Lusophone Africa, and the BRICS group.

Eric has completed a PhD in International Relations (cum laude, 2021) at the University of Groningen, approaching the making of Africa’s South–South relations in expanding mining frontiers. He has taught at the Free University of Amsterdam (Dep. of Political Science and Public Administration) and held research positions at Utrecht University, the Centre for Global Cooperation Research (University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany), and the Peace Research Institute Oslo (PRIO).

Eric has published peer-reviewed articles in Political Geography, World Development, African Affairs, Global Society, and The Extractive Industries and Society, among others, covering empirical realities in Mozambique, Guinea, and Kenya and themes as varied as workplace relations, transnational activism, racialisation, and African agency. He is also the co-editor of the book Africa's Global Infrastructures: South-South Transformations in Practice (w/ Jana Hönke & Yifan Yang, Hurst Publishers, 2024) and the lead guest editor of an ongoing journal special issue with Political Geography, titled Green Hydrogen in the Global South: Politics, Spaces, and Transformations.

Keywords: Africa's South-South relations, energy transitions, decarbonization, green hydrogen, extractive industries, infrastructure politics, BRICS, African agency, racialisation.