05392nam 2200781 450 991079724270332120210311111955.01-350-21936-31-78360-095-01-78360-094-210.5040/9781350219366(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(CaBNVSL)9781350219366(EXLCZ)99371000000043124320210311h20212015 uy 0engurcnu||||||||txtccrContested powers the politics of energy and development in Latin America /edited by John-Andrew McNeish, Axel Borchgrevink, and Owen LoganLondon, England :Zed Books,2015.[London, England] :Bloomsbury Publishing,20211 online resource (334 p.)Includes index.1-78360-092-6 1-78360-093-4 Includes bibliographical references 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 ; References.2: 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 Electricity.Electric 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 Company.The First Contact with Oil People The Attraction of 'Black Gold'; Environmental and Social Impacts ; Dialogue of the Deaf ; Punta Cardón in the 1980s and 1990s ; 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 ; Contraband.The Social Embeddedness of Cross-Border TradeConclusions ; 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 ; References.A study of the relationship between energy production and political power.Power resourcesPolitical aspectsLatin AmericaPower resourcesEconomic aspectsLatin AmericaEconomic developmentPolitical aspectsLatin AmericaEnergy industriesEnvironmental aspectsLatin AmericaEnergy policyLatin AmericaPolitics & governmentbicsscPower resourcesPolitical aspectsPower resourcesEconomic aspectsEconomic developmentPolitical aspectsEnergy industriesEnvironmental aspectsEnergy policyPolitics & government333.7/9/098McNeish John-AndrewBorchgrevink AxelLogan Owen1963-NCaBNVSLCaBNVSLBOOK9910797242703321Contested powers3702549UNINA