05333nam 2200745 450 991046101280332120200520144314.01-78360-095-01-78360-094-2(CKB)3710000000431243(EBL)2068340(SSID)ssj0001535976(PQKBManifestationID)11819288(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001535976(PQKBWorkID)11508615(PQKB)10978182(MiAaPQ)EBC2068340(Au-PeEL)EBL2068340(CaPaEBR)ebr11065812(CaONFJC)MIL798033(OCoLC)910935345(EXLCZ)99371000000043124320150624h20152015 uy 0engurcnu||||||||txtccrContested powers the politics of enregy and develpoment in Latin America /edited by John-Andrew McNeish, Axel Borchgrevink and Owen LoganLondon, [England] :Zed Books,2015.©20151 online resource (334 p.)Includes index.1-78360-092-6 1-78360-093-4 Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.Front Cover; About the Editors; Title Page ; Copyright ; Contents ; Tables and Figures ; Map; 1: Introduction: Recovering Power from Energy - Reconsidering the Linkages Between Energy and Development ; Introduction ; Resource Sovereignties ; Contested Powers in Latin America ; A Politics of Renewables ; Beyond National and Regional Borders ; Development, Modernity and Power ; An Anthropology of Energy? ; Critical Institutionalism ; Critical Perspectives on the Energetic State ; The Story of This Book ; Notes ; References2: Oil Extraction and Territorial Disputes in the Maya Biosphere Reserve Post-War Guatemala ; The Political History of Mining ; Laguna Del Tigre: A Strategic Territory ; The Xan Oil Well ; Population and Land Occupation ; Interest Groups and Social Conflict ; Creating Favourable Public Opinion ; Oil Contracts to the Detriment of National Interests ; The Controversial Role of the State ; The Consequences ; Final Reflections ; Notes ; References ; Webpages ; 3: Gracias A Díos Y Al Gobierno: Electric Power Struggles in Nicaraguan Politics; Background: Nicaragua, State, Society and ElectricityElectric Power to the People Changing Opportunities for Popular Protest ; Conclusion ; Notes ; References ; 4: Wind at the Margins of the State: Autonomy and Renewable Energy Development in Southern Mexico ; Oaxacan Wind Power at a Crossroads ; An Anthropology of Failure ; In the Fading Light of the Black Sun ; Capturing the Meter ; Rescuing the Land from the Wind ; On Fish and Neoliberalism ; Conclusions: Downed Windmills ; Notes ; References ; 5: Oil and Environmental Injustice in Venezuela: An Ethnographic Study of Punta Cardón; Introduction ; Before the Arrival of the Oil CompanyThe First Contact with Oil People The Attraction of 'Black Gold'; Environmental and Social Impacts ; Dialogue of the Deaf ; Punta Cardón in the 1980's and 1990's ; Punta Cardón Today ; The Environmental Situation Today ; Diverging Epistemologies ; Memories Discarded ; Blaming the Fishermen ; The Politics of Payouts ; Punta Cardón and the Bolivarian Revolution ; Conclusion ; Notes ; References ; 6: 'Everything Moves with Fuel': Energy Politics and the Smuggling of Energy Resources ; Introduction ; Politics and Prices ; Protests and Responses ; ContrabandThe Social Embeddedness of Cross-Border Trade Conclusions ; Notes ; References ; 7: The Continuous Negotiation of the Authority of Oil- and Gas-Dependent States: The Case of Bolivia ; The Theoretical Ground - Power, Institutions and Agency ; Public Policies in Countries Dependent on Non-Renewable Natural Resources ; Hydrocarbon Policy and Revenue Redistribution Mechanisms in Bolivia; The Gasolinazo and Government Justifications for Reducing Fuel Subsidies; The Violent Social Reaction to the Reduction in Fuel Subsidies ; Conclusions: Power, Sovereignty and Epistemology ; Notes ; References8: Passive Revolution? Social and Political Struggles Surrounding Brazil's New-Found Oil ReservoirsA study of the relationship between energy production and political powerPower resourcesPolitical aspectsLatin AmericaPower resourcesEconomic aspectsLatin AmericaEconomic developmentPolitical aspectsLatin AmericaEnergy industriesEnvironmental aspectsLatin AmericaEnergy policyLatin AmericaElectronic books.Power resourcesPolitical aspectsPower resourcesEconomic aspectsEconomic developmentPolitical aspectsEnergy industriesEnvironmental aspectsEnergy policy333.79098McNeish John-AndrewBorchgrevink AxelLogan Owen1963-MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910461012803321Contested powers2127900UNINA