Introduction: Recovering Power From Energy - Reconsidering the Linkages Between Energy and Development

McNeish, John-Andrew; Borchgrevink, Axel

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“…As the European Commission (2011) points out, it is the "central nervous system" of any economy (2011: 7). McNeish and Borchgrevink (2015) explore the links between different energy technologies and exploitive practices, as well as energy and (state) power. They point out that "a national electricity grid is a powerful symbol of the internal socio-political coherency of the modern nation-state.…”

Section: Infrastructure and The Politics Of Spacementioning

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“…They point out that “a national electricity grid is a powerful symbol of the internal socio-political coherency of the modern nation-state. […] Efforts to expand the grid are at the same time attempts at integrating the nation and extending the state’s reach” (McNeish and Borchgrevink, 2015: 14–15). Similarly, Powell (2010) shows in her work Landscapes of Power , how energy infrastructure development in the Navajo territory (First Nation, US) is used to create not only new “objects”, economies and markets, but also new modes of production, knowledge, relation and identity.…”

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Technology of detachment: The promise of renewable energy and its contentious reality in the south of Colombia

Helmcke

2023

Environment and Planning C: Politics and Space

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Taking infrastructure as the means to control space, this paper analyses the large-scale hydroelectric dam project “El Quimbo” in Huila, South Colombia, and the environmental conflict it caused. The paper argues that instead of acting as a “technology of engagement” that extends vital infrastructure into marginalised territory, the dam functioned as a “technology of detachment” that destroyed the social and physical infrastructure in place, fragmented territory and marginalised affected populations further. While localised marginalisation can be considered an unintentional side-effect of a project, which otherwise serves the “greater good”, critical conceptualisations of the capitalist state see purpose behind these impacts. Governments use infrastructural objects as tools for social engineering, subjugating their population to control and discipline in line with their biopolitical project. The paper analyses how far this subjugation was visible in the El Quimbo dam case, and critically reflects on the promises of renewable energy. It brings novel insights to the infrastructure citizenship debate by highlighting that infrastructure can act as intermediary between state and citizens but, in the same way, can hamper citizenship formation.

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Technology of detachment: The promise of renewable energy and its contentious reality in the south of Colombia

Helmcke

2023

Environment and Planning C: Politics and Space

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“…La reconfiguración de la red eléctrica, orientada hacia un territorio regional común y basada en la circulación transnacional de flujos energéticos, es discutida en Centroamérica (McNeish & Borchgrevink, 2015). El siepac no es una mera mejora técnica, sino una instancia altamente política: mientras que la expansión de la red eléctrica es a menudo equiparada con una mejor provisión estatal por parte de los planificadores, los críticos vinculan el siepac con corrupción y selectividad, ya que parte de la población permanece desconectada.…”

Section: Planificación De La Energía Renovable En México Y El Proyecto Mesoamericanounclassified

“…En esta contribución se analiza cómo las ecoinfraestructuras conectan espacios asimétricos de negociación, pero que potencialmente chocan con constelaciones sociales en sitios específicos. El artículo aporta a debates recientes entre economía política y ecología política (McNeish & Borchgrevink, 2015;Lehmann, 2019;Dunlap, 2019;Boyer, 2019).…”

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Gobernanza de la expansión: infraestructuras transnacionales de energía en América Latina

Jenss¹

2021

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Las transformaciones hacia infraestructuras “ecológicas” están íntimamente ligadas a conflictos sociales. Para enriquecer el debate sobre estas expansiones infraestructurales en disputa, relaciono análisis de economía política y ecología política con la literatura sobre “políticas de operación” y logística. Para ello se analiza la infraestructura de energía renovable del Proyecto Mesoamericano, el cual fomenta nuevos “territorios transnacionales” e implica un creciente papel de corporaciones globales en las luchas sociales locales. El argumento central es que la impugnación de tales proyectos ha sido complicada por la creciente priorización de la circulación (nodos de infraestructura, corredores de energía) de las políticas de seguridad, que incluso inducen el desplazamiento de personas.

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ENERGY IS EVERYWHERE:On imaginaries and ‘contested powers’

Partridge

2016

Anthropology Today

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Introduction: Recovering Power From Energy - Reconsidering the Linkages Between Energy and Development

Cited by 4 publications

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Technology of detachment: The promise of renewable energy and its contentious reality in the south of Colombia

Technology of detachment: The promise of renewable energy and its contentious reality in the south of Colombia

Gobernanza de la expansión: infraestructuras transnacionales de energía en América Latina

ENERGY IS EVERYWHERE:On imaginaries and ‘contested powers’

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