Gerardo A Torres Contreras
Biographic Data
| ID | 795408 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Gerardo A Torres Contreras |
| GIVEN NAMES | Gerardo A Torres |
| FAMILY NAME | Contreras |
| SIGNATURE | CONTRERAS G A T |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Sussex |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-2520-7924 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 114 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 9 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
If we rebuild the kitchen, we rebuild the heart”: Post-relief transformational politics in the Isthmus of Tehuantepec, Mexico
In September 2017, the strongest earthquake in the last century shook the Isthmus of Tehuantepec, Mexico, the region hosting the largest concentration of wind turbines in Mexico. In the municipalities with over 1600 wind turbines, the seismic shock affected 70% of the dwellings. After the disaster, community organisations undertook efforts to foster collective processes of territorial autonomy in towns hosting wind projects or expected to host pr…
Increasing wellbeing through energy demand reduction for net zero: Citizen perceptions of co-benefits of local measures
Energy demand reduction options can make an important contribution to a Net Zero transition for climate change mitigation, and also offer multiple social, economic, and environmental ‘co-benefits’. However, these co-benefits are often insufficiently accounted for in policy making, which tends to focus on direct economic costs and benefits. Applying Multi Criteria Mapping and survey methods, the paper investigates how citizens in two UK regions va…
The remaking of social property and wind energy trajectories in the Isthmus of Tehuantepec, Mexico
This paper asks how social property and wind energy trajectories have remade each other in the Isthmus of Tehuantepec, Mexico, since 1994. To this end, the paper identifies two social property regimes in the region: the ejido system, with well-defined property rights, in the northern section of the region and the agrarian community of Juchitán Agrarian Nucleus, where a set of competing claims over land championed by different social groups co-exi…
Who owns the land owns the wind? Land and citizenship in the Isthmus of Tehuantepec, Mexico
Wind energy expansion across rural areas interacts with various interests at the local level, generating multiple reactions within communities. The Eólica del Sur wind farm implementation pathway in Mexico is a paragon of different positions vis‐à‐vis this industry after trying to install 132 wind turbines in other towns since 2006. This paper argues that there is a bias in studies of the politics of wind energy development in favour of oppositio…
Social implications of energy infrastructure digitalisation and decarbonisation
Digitalisation provides opportunities to decarbonise energy and, simultaneously, address social exclusion and inequality—but it is unclear whether and how these opportunities are realised. Three case studies investigate whether ongoing energy infrastructure digitalisation processes are accommodating commoning or enclosure, using a continuum of commoning versus enclosure practices to examine this question. Multi-sited fieldwork throughout the peri…
Eating, heating or taking the bus? Lived experiences at the intersection of energy and transport poverty
Experiences of poverty can manifest in multiple aspects of everyday life, often in interlinking ways. One example is ‘double energy vulnerability’, where a household faces both energy poverty and transport poverty simultaneously. This can result in trade-offs, where prioritising one essential need (e.g., transport) makes accessing another impossible (e.g., heating). Such decisions are not easily made, and they can have distinct spatio-temporal ch…
Inclusive innovation in just transitions: The case of smart local energy systems in the UK
Inclusive innovation addresses the challenges and aspirations of poor and marginalised groups in society. Attention towards these groups is also important for social justice in sustainable transitions. How can research insights from inclusive innovation contribute to just transitions? In this paper, based on original mixed methods data, analysis built around levels of inclusion is applied empirically to the case of smart local energy systems in t…
Twenty-five years under the wind turbines in La Venta, Mexico: Social Difference, Land Control and Agrarian Change
As wind energy investments expand across rural areas, unique class dynamics and accumulation patterns result from this industry. The ejido La Venta town has hosted wind farms since 1994, allowing us to analyse the effects of wind power on patterns of social difference, land control and agrarian change. By drawing on agricultural censuses and on 40 interviews with landowners, this paper argues that wind energy investments shift patterns of land co…
Toward transformative climate justice: An emerging research agenda
Calls for climate justice abound as evidence accumulates of the growing social and environmental injustices aggravated or driven by climate change. There is now a considerable and diverse literature on procedural, distributional and intergenerational dimensions, including questions of recognition in climate justice. Yet its meaning, scope and practical implications are still contested. Importantly, the broader landscape within which climate justi…
Toward transformative climate justice: An emerging research agenda
Calls for climate justice abound as evidence accumulates of the growing social and environmental injustices aggravated or driven by climate change. There is now a considerable and diverse literature on procedural, distributional and intergenerational dimensions, including questions of recognition in climate justice. Yet its meaning, scope and practical implications are still contested. Importantly, the broader landscape within which climate justi…
Twenty-five years under the wind turbines in La Venta, Mexico: Social Difference, Land Control and Agrarian Change
As wind energy investments expand across rural areas, unique class dynamics and accumulation patterns result from this industry. The ejido La Venta town has hosted wind farms since 1994, allowing us to analyse the effects of wind power on patterns of social difference, land control and agrarian change. By drawing on agricultural censuses and on 40 interviews with landowners, this paper argues that wind energy investments shift patterns of land co…
Eating, heating or taking the bus? Lived experiences at the intersection of energy and transport poverty
Experiences of poverty can manifest in multiple aspects of everyday life, often in interlinking ways. One example is ‘double energy vulnerability’, where a household faces both energy poverty and transport poverty simultaneously. This can result in trade-offs, where prioritising one essential need (e.g., transport) makes accessing another impossible (e.g., heating). Such decisions are not easily made, and they can have distinct spatio-temporal ch…
Inclusive innovation in just transitions: The case of smart local energy systems in the UK
Inclusive innovation addresses the challenges and aspirations of poor and marginalised groups in society. Attention towards these groups is also important for social justice in sustainable transitions. How can research insights from inclusive innovation contribute to just transitions? In this paper, based on original mixed methods data, analysis built around levels of inclusion is applied empirically to the case of smart local energy systems in t…
Toward transformative climate justice: An emerging research agenda
Calls for climate justice abound as evidence accumulates of the growing social and environmental injustices aggravated or driven by climate change. There is now a considerable and diverse literature on procedural, distributional and intergenerational dimensions, including questions of recognition in climate justice. Yet its meaning, scope and practical implications are still contested. Importantly, the broader landscape within which climate justi…
Twenty-five years under the wind turbines in La Venta, Mexico: Social Difference, Land Control and Agrarian Change
As wind energy investments expand across rural areas, unique class dynamics and accumulation patterns result from this industry. The ejido La Venta town has hosted wind farms since 1994, allowing us to analyse the effects of wind power on patterns of social difference, land control and agrarian change. By drawing on agricultural censuses and on 40 interviews with landowners, this paper argues that wind energy investments shift patterns of land co…
Who owns the land owns the wind? Land and citizenship in the Isthmus of Tehuantepec, Mexico
Wind energy expansion across rural areas interacts with various interests at the local level, generating multiple reactions within communities. The Eólica del Sur wind farm implementation pathway in Mexico is a paragon of different positions vis‐à‐vis this industry after trying to install 132 wind turbines in other towns since 2006. This paper argues that there is a bias in studies of the politics of wind energy development in favour of oppositio…
Social implications of energy infrastructure digitalisation and decarbonisation
Digitalisation provides opportunities to decarbonise energy and, simultaneously, address social exclusion and inequality—but it is unclear whether and how these opportunities are realised. Three case studies investigate whether ongoing energy infrastructure digitalisation processes are accommodating commoning or enclosure, using a continuum of commoning versus enclosure practices to examine this question. Multi-sited fieldwork throughout the peri…
Eating, heating or taking the bus? Lived experiences at the intersection of energy and transport poverty
Experiences of poverty can manifest in multiple aspects of everyday life, often in interlinking ways. One example is ‘double energy vulnerability’, where a household faces both energy poverty and transport poverty simultaneously. This can result in trade-offs, where prioritising one essential need (e.g., transport) makes accessing another impossible (e.g., heating). Such decisions are not easily made, and they can have distinct spatio-temporal ch…
Inclusive innovation in just transitions: The case of smart local energy systems in the UK
Inclusive innovation addresses the challenges and aspirations of poor and marginalised groups in society. Attention towards these groups is also important for social justice in sustainable transitions. How can research insights from inclusive innovation contribute to just transitions? In this paper, based on original mixed methods data, analysis built around levels of inclusion is applied empirically to the case of smart local energy systems in t…
Increasing wellbeing through energy demand reduction for net zero: Citizen perceptions of co-benefits of local measures
Energy demand reduction options can make an important contribution to a Net Zero transition for climate change mitigation, and also offer multiple social, economic, and environmental ‘co-benefits’. However, these co-benefits are often insufficiently accounted for in policy making, which tends to focus on direct economic costs and benefits. Applying Multi Criteria Mapping and survey methods, the paper investigates how citizens in two UK regions va…
The remaking of social property and wind energy trajectories in the Isthmus of Tehuantepec, Mexico
This paper asks how social property and wind energy trajectories have remade each other in the Isthmus of Tehuantepec, Mexico, since 1994. To this end, the paper identifies two social property regimes in the region: the ejido system, with well-defined property rights, in the northern section of the region and the agrarian community of Juchitán Agrarian Nucleus, where a set of competing claims over land championed by different social groups co-exi…
If we rebuild the kitchen, we rebuild the heart”: Post-relief transformational politics in the Isthmus of Tehuantepec, Mexico
In September 2017, the strongest earthquake in the last century shook the Isthmus of Tehuantepec, Mexico, the region hosting the largest concentration of wind turbines in Mexico. In the municipalities with over 1600 wind turbines, the seismic shock affected 70% of the dwellings. After the disaster, community organisations undertook efforts to foster collective processes of territorial autonomy in towns hosting wind projects or expected to host pr…
Political science (7 works) · Economics (6 works) · Energy and Environment Impacts (6 works) · Sociology (5 works) · Agriculture, Land Use, Rural Development (4 works) · Geography (4 works) · Engineering (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Public relations (3 works)