This book discusses and summarizes the revived interest in just energy transitions issues withing the general context of the extraction and commercialization of coal and of energy transition policies in Colombia and worldwide. Even more importantly, the book aims at familiarizing people from various disciplines with a better understanding about how local communities in coal-mining territories in Colombia envision just energy transitions at a local/national level, which are truly inclusive and democratic. The book is based on a pluralistic approach to discuss conceptual references and transversal axes of analysis from the epistemologies of the South, followed by a discussion of possible just and inclusive energy transitions. The methodology is explained within the framework of the pedagogical process “Community re-existence: energy transition, gender and sovereignty”, which provided for a large part of this analysis. The major task of this book is to present the findings of the collaborative research working together with the communities of Lomamato, Provincial, La Sierra and Monguí. Based on these observations, the book tries to assure unity in diversity. Unity, because it systemizes the main recommendations for public policy; diversity, because it carries out intercultural dialogues with communities involved in socio-environmental conflicts, external civil society and international cooperation actors.
En el discurso hegemónico sobre transición energética predomina, una comprensión tecnoeconómica, reduciéndola a un cambio tecnológico en la generación de energía por fuentes renovables y limpias, y priorizando la construcción de megaproyectos en energía solar, eólica o hidroeléctrica, sin abandonar la explotación de combustibles fósiles. Fuertes críticas se han alzado contra esta perspectiva, en particular desde los territorios más afectados por los proyectos minero-extractivos, en voces indígenas, afros y campesinas, quienes demandan una transformación sustancial surgida desde y para lo local. En el marco de un proceso de investigación participativa y diálogo de saberes con cuatro comunidades rurales y étnicas en regiones carboníferas de los departamentos de La Guajira, Cesar y Boyacá, esta obra profundiza sobre estas demandas desde tres perspectivas interrelacionadas: (1) género, (2) territorio y (3) soberanía comunitaria. A partir de estos ejes de discusión, se identifican diversos impulsos desde las bases para construir transiciones energéticas más allá de los combustibles fósiles en Colombia. De estos, se diferencian tres tipos de muchos: (1) transiciones minero-extractivas, (2) democratización energética y (3) transiciones amplias y justas.
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