Contested Powers: The Politics of Energy and Development in Latin America

ISBN-13: 9781783600922 / Angielski / Miękka / 2015 / 336 str.

John-Andrew McNeish;Axel Borchgrevink;Owen Logan

Opis

Contested Powers looks specifically at the role of fossil fuels and renewable energy in the economic development of countries in Latin America. The contributors to this volume argue that the two currently dominant approaches to energy policy either a focus on energy conservation or a focus on creating renewable energy resources are actually two sides of the same coin. Both approaches are hindered by an underlying division of labor and capital that puts the means for ecologically sound technological advancement in the hands of a minority. The essays in Contested Powers go beyond Latin America to demonstrate that the key to addressing climate change and sustainable development around the globe is to first address the relationship between political and financial power and energy use and resources."

Spis treści

1. Introduction: recovering power from energy – reconsidering the linkages between energy and development - John-Andrew McNeish and Axel Borchgrevink 2. Oil extraction and territorial disputes in the Maya Biosphere Reserve - Virgilio Reyes 3. Gracias a díos y al gobierno: electric power struggles in Nicaraguan politics - Axel Borchgrevink 4. Wind at the margins of the state: autonomy and renewable energy development in southern Mexico - Cymene Howe, Dominic Boyer and Edith Barrera 5. Oil and environmental injustice in Venezuela: an ethnographic study of Punta Cardón - María Victoria Canino and Iselin Åsedotter Strønen 6. 'Everything moves with fuel': energy politics and the smuggling of energy resources - Cecilie Vindal Ødegaard 7. The continuous negotiation of the authority of oil- and gas-dependent states: the case of Bolivia - Fernanda Wanderley 8. Passive revolution? Social and political struggles surrounding Brazil's new-found oil reservoirs - Einar Braathen 9. Doing well in the eyes of capital: cultural transformation from Venezuela to Scotland - Owen Logan 10. Latin America transformed? - John-Andrew McNeish 11. From the King's Peace to transition society - Owen Logan and John-Andrew McNeish