Anthropocenic Ecoauthority: The Winds of Oaxaca

Howe, Cymene

doi:10.1353/anq.2014.0029

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“…The dynamism of the national economy for the same periods was 3.6 and 3.2%, respectively [16] dynamism of Oaxaca in the post increased public spending, restoring the flow of currency sent Oaxaca from the US to Mexico and strong amou investment have arrived in the state with the hig earlier this decade [17,18].…”

Section: Growth Of the Country And Oaxaca In The Periodmentioning

confidence: 93%

The Economy of Oaxaca in the Period 2004-2013: A Brief Review

Miranda¹,

Cruz²

2015

IJEBO

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Abstract:Oaxaca is one of the most recognized states of Mexico, Located in the south of Mexico. The economic activities of Oaxaca is characterized by its own dynamic, far forms of productio wave of globalization that began in Mexico from the decade of the eig dynamics, GDP and income distribution of the inhabitants of the state of Oaxaca, in the period between of 2004 The document is divided into three parts: the first deals with regard dynamics of the population, finally the third part closes with the conclusions of this paper.

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Section: Growth Of the Country And Oaxaca In The Periodmentioning

confidence: 93%

The Economy of Oaxaca in the Period 2004-2013: A Brief Review

Miranda¹,

Cruz²

2015

IJEBO

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“…This "incentive-based system" is a reference to market-based environmentalism (Corson et al 2013;Dunlap 2017b), which after the Kyoto Protocol (1997) became the principal approach to mitigate climate change and biodiversity loss (Dunlap and Fairhead 2014). It is within this context that the Mareña Renovables wind project emerged, receiving loans from the United Nations Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) and Inter-American Development Bank (IBD) alongside investors from the Maquarie Group, Mitsubishi, FEMSA and the Dutch pension fund PGGM that sought to use the proposed energy to power Coca Cola, Heineken, Walmart and Grupo Bimbo among other shareholders (Avila-Calero 2017;Howe 2014;Smith 2012). Development of the Mareña began in 2004.…”

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“…This included the construction of three electric substations; a submarine cable (less than 1 km long); fifty-two kilometers of high voltage transmission lines from the Santa Maria Substation to Ixtepec; and six docking stations to facilitate maritime access, as well as improving old roads and constructing new ones (IDB 2011). Mareña Renovables became the largest wind energy project in Latin America with 394 megawatts (MW) and the only wind park in the world proposed on a sand bar (Howe 2014). Appropriating the name "sea people"-Mareños-into the company name, 7 after a court injunction (amparo) in 2012 and militant opposition from San Dionisio del Mar, San Mateo del Mar and Álvaro Obregón-"the triangle of resistance"-Mareña Renovables halted temporarily (Peterson 2012).…”

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confidence: 99%

“…The North and South Coastal Istmo represent two different archetypal, yet overlapping, forms of resistance that are revealing of their respective situations (Borras et al 2012). Opposition in the North is centered on unequal, exploitative land deals and labor contracts as locals fight for greater incorporation, while the South has increasingly positioned itself in total rejection of corporate wind parks (Altamirano-Jiménez 2017; Avila-Calero 2017; Dunlap 2015Dunlap , 2017aHowe 2014;Nahmad et al 2014). By January 2015, the Istmo was covered with 1,608 wind turbines that occupied 17,867.80 hectares of land (Navarro and Bessi 2015;Rivas 2015).…”

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Insurrection for land, sea and dignity: resistance and autonomy against wind energy in Álvaro Obregón, Mexico

Dunlap

2018

Journal of Political Ecology

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Providing a glimpse into the reality of wind energy development, the story of Álvaro Obregón is one of resistance. Álvaro Obregón is a primarily Zapotec semi-subsistence community located near the entrance of the Santa Teresa sand bar (Barra), where in 2011 Mareña Renovables initiated the process of building 102 wind turbines. Demonstrating the complicated micro-politics of land acquisition, conflict and unrest, this article argues that climate change mitigation initiatives are sparking land grabs and conflict with the renewed valuation of wind resources. Insurrection against the Mareña Renovables wind project has spawned a long-term conflict, which has created social divisions and a type of low-intensity civil war within the town. This article will chronicle the uprising against the wind company, battles with police, and the town hall takeover, which includes analyzing the conflict taking place between the cabildo comunitario and the constitucionalistas. Subsequent sections examine the different perspectives within the village and how this battle between the Communitarians and the wind company continues today. The article reveals the complications associated with land deals, the conflict generating potential of climate change mitigation practices and, finally, concludes by reflecting on the difficulties of formulating alternatives to development within a conflict situation. Keywords: Oaxaca; Álvaro Obregón, sustainable development, wind energy, green grabbing, resistance, climate change Résumé L"histoire d"Álvaro Obregón, dans le panorama des différents projets de développement de l"énergie éolienne, est une histoire de résistance. Álvaro Obregón est une communauté semi-autonome zapotèque près de l"entrée du bar de sable de Santa Teresa à Oaxaca, au Mexique. Là, en 2011, Mareña Renovables a commencé le processus de construction de 102 éoliennes. Élaborant les micropolitiques compliquées de l"acquisition des terres, des conflits et de l"agitation, l"article soutient que les initiatives visant à atténuer les effets du changement climatique conduisent souvent à l"expropriation des terres et aux conflits sociaux. La résistance au projet Mareña Renovables a conduit à un conflit prolongé, créant des divisions sociales et une sorte de guerre civile de faible intensité. L"article reconstruit chronologiquement la résistance contre l"entreprise, les batailles avec la police et l"occupation de la municipalité, et comprend une analyse du conflit entre deux partis locaux, le conseil de la communauté et les constitutionnalistes. Les sections suivantes examinent ces différentes perspectives au sein de la communauté et reconstruisent la façon dont la bataille entre la communauté et l"entreprise s"est poursuivie. L"article révèle ainsi toutes les complications qui se présentent dans des cas comme les conflits fonciers, la possibilité de générer des conflits forts à cause des pratiques visant à atténuer les changements climatiques et la réflexion sur les difficultés de formulation d"alternatives de développement. dans de...

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“…Its negative polarities were equally dense constellations based on centuries of suspicion and contemporary conditions of deprivations and deceits. The project was scaffolded by the eco-authoritiative positions of environmental impact reports and ethical claims to protect the global biosphere, but ultimately derailed by demands for local sovereignty and stewardship (Howe 2014). Aeolian politics represent a constellation of forces and materials that involve corporate sustainability profiles, government projects and the performance of climatological care, but it is often in the "devil's wind" that questions of environment and authority raise turbulent questions about ecological futures.…”

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Aeolian politics

Howe

Boyer

2015

Distinktion: Journal of Social Theory

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Our project in this article is to unwind 'wind power' as a consolidated conceptual object and to consider the ventifactual arrangements of its political materiality. In a time when carbon incineration has been exposed as among the greatest ecological threats to humanity and other life on the planet, renewable energy forms, like wind power, are commonly assumed to have a clear, logical, and obvious salvational purpose: a path away from fossilized resources and toward sustainable sources of energy. Mexico has established some of the most far-reaching and comprehensive climate legislation in the world, including mandates for renewable energy production. The Isthmus of Tehuantepec, in the Southern state of Oaxaca, now hosts the densest concentration of on-shore wind development anywhere on the planet. We find, however, that the 'good' of wind is differentially felt. The power of the wind is not singular, but rather as multiple as the world it inhabits. We thus develop an argument against a singular interpretation of 'wind power' and toward a surfacing of wind's manifold effects and ways of mattering. We call this domain: aeolian politics. In this article, we take several snapshots of aeolian politics to help articulate its multiplicity, showing how wind power becomes contoured by land and desire and by infrastructure and technological management. We also see aeolian political life entangled with cosmologies and subjectivities and implicated within the ethical domains of sustainable development.

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Anthropocenic Ecoauthority: The Winds of Oaxaca

Abstract: This article analyzes the development of wind parks across the Isthmus of Tehuantepec (Oaxaca, Mexico)

Cited by 92 publications

References 35 publications

The Economy of Oaxaca in the Period 2004-2013: A Brief Review

The Economy of Oaxaca in the Period 2004-2013: A Brief Review

Insurrection for land, sea and dignity: resistance and autonomy against wind energy in Álvaro Obregón, Mexico

Aeolian politics

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