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 first to address the relationship between political and financial power and energy use and resources.
In the global north the commoditization of creativity and knowledge under the banner of a creative economy is being posed as the post-industrial answer to dependency on labour and natural resources. Not only does it promise a more stable and sustainable future, but an economy focused on intellectual property is more environmentally friendly, so it is suggested.
Resource Sovereigns argues that the fixes being offered by this model, popularised by market economics since the end of World War II, are bluffs; that development in the global south continues to be hindered by a global division of labour and nature that puts the capacity for technological advancement in private hands. The authors call for a multilayered understanding of sovereignty (an ostensibly outdated political concept in the world of global capital) arguing that it holds the key to undermining rigid accounts of the relationship between carbon and democracy, energy and development, and energy and political expression. Furthermore, a critical focus on energy politics is crucial to wider debates on development and sustainability.
Essential reading for those wondering how energy resources are converted into political power and why we still value the energy we take from our surroundings more than the means of its extraction.
Recenzijas
This collection of case studies from Latin America challenges neoliberal ideology by demonstrating the pivotal role of energy in political struggles within and between nation-states in our unequal world. * Alf Hornborg, Lund University * With this irrefutable volume, McNeish, Borchgrevink and Logan have taken us a long way towards the elusive goal of a post-carbon age. * Arturo Escobar, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill * Combining penetrating case studies with a theoretically insightful broader analysis of the meanings, contradictions and global significance of recent development processes in Latin America, this landmark collection constructively critiques conventional wisdom while offering fresh ways of understanding the political complexity created by different kinds of claims to sovereignty. * John Gledhill, University of Manchester, and author of The New War on the Poor * An incisive and theoretically sophisticated set of studies into the highly contentious relationship between energy and development. This is a signal contribution to our understanding of the politics of energy in Latin America. * Tom Perreault, Syracuse University *
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A study of the relationship between energy production and political power.
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1 Introduction: recovering power from energy -- reconsidering the linkages between energy and development |
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2 Oil extraction and territorial disputes in the Maya Biosphere Reserve |
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3 Gracias a dios y al gobierno: electric power struggles in Nicaraguan politics |
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4 Wind at the margins of the state: autonomy and renewable energy development in southern Mexico |
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5 Oil and environmental injustice in Venezuela: an ethnographic study of Punta Cardon |
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6 `Everything moves with fuel': energy politics and the smuggling of energy resources |
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7 The continuous negotiation of the authority of oil- and gas-dependent states: the case of Bolivia |
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8 Passive revolution? Social and political struggles surrounding Brazil's new-found oil reservoirs |
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9 Doing well in the eyes of capital: cultural transformation from Venezuela to Scotland |
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10 Latin America transformed? |
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11 From the King's Peace to transition society |
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John-Andrew McNeish is associate professor at the Norwegian University of Life Sciences (NMBU) and senior researcher at Chr. Michelsen Institute (CMI). His research focuses on indigenous politics and participation in resource politics and governance. McNeish has authored and co-authored a number of publications, including Flammable Societies: Studies on the Socio-Economics of Oil and Gas (2012), Gender Justice and Legal Pluralities: Latin American and African Perspectives (2013), and Indigenous Peoples and Poverty: An International Perspective (Zed Books, 2005). He is currently carrying out research for the Norwegian Research Council-funded Extracting Justice project.
Axel Borchgrevink is associate professor at Oslo and Akershus University College (HIOA). He is an anthropologist who has considerable international consultancy experience and has worked on a range of development issues in Africa, Asia and Latin America. He is a former co-editor of the journal Forum for Development Studies, and his book Clean and Green: Knowledge and Morality in a Philippine Farming Community was published in 2014.
Owen Logan is a photographer and research fellow at the University of Aberdeen, where he worked closely with the Lives in the Oil Industry oral history project. Between 2007 and 2014 he was a contributing editor to Variant magazine and is co-editor with John Andrew McNeish of Flammable Societies: Studies on the Socio-Economics of Oil and Gas (2012). His work as a photographer has been widely exhibited and his images are in several public collections, including the Scottish Parliament. In connection with the Contested Powers project he co-curated, with Kirsten Lloyd, the exhibition The Kings Peace: Realism and War at the Stills Gallery in Edinburgh in 2014.
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