Caring about energy transformations
Lessons from the Atacama Desert
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12979373 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Daniela Soto Hernandez (0000-0001-8555-0244, University of Sussex, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2025 |
| Volume | 18 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 146-161 |
| Publication date | 2025-03-25 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Human Geography (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1942-7786 • E-ISSN: 2633-674X |
| Publisher | SAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1177/19427786251325197 |
| OpenAlex | W4408819477 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
| References cited | 49 |
The hegemonic energy transition continues to be guided by techno-managerial principles, without questioning the role of caring about energy transformations and broader issues of socio-natural relationships. In contrast, Lickanantay communities in northern Chile have been producing the Atacama Desert as an abundant and sacred ‘desertscape’, offering other ways to understand how to care about the world of many worlds we inhabit. By drawing on these worlds and on anti-colonial frameworks, political ecology, and feminist ethics, this paper contributes to thinking about how Puig de la Bellacasa's notion of ‘matters of care’ (2017) and the Indigenous Andean understanding of vincularidad challenge the ways in which energy transitions are thought and practiced. Based on a year ethnography in the Loa province, the article shows that in contrast to the ‘desolate-scape’ built by colonial capitalism, the ‘desertscape’ offers anti-colonial examples of ‘how to care’ about energy transformations to reclaim and restore a world of many worlds
Astrobiology · Desert (philosophy · Earth science · Energy (signal processing · Geography · Physics · Political science · Agriculture, Land Use, Rural Development · Energy and Environment Impacts · Geology
Qualitative Content Analysis
Strategies for mitigation of climate change
Linking Indigenous and Scientific Knowledge of Climate Change
Settler Colonialism, Decolonization, and Climate Change
Indigenous Climate Change Studies
Un mundo ch’ixi es posible. Ensayos desde un presente en crisis
Comparison as a Matter of Concern
Thinking-feeling with the Earth
Matters of care
Mining indigenous territories
Territoriality and the politics of ancestrality
The Global Political Ecology of the Clean Development Mechanism
Spreading ‘green’ infrastructural harm
Trasformismo or transformation? The global political economy of energy transitions
The dispossession of the San Pedro de Inacaliri river
The Violent Technologies of Extraction
Feminist Ecologies
Provincializing energy transitions
Neoliberal energy transitions
Decolonizing energy justice from the ground up
What's wrong with a one-world world
Production of subterranean resources in the Atacama Desert
Lithium extractivism and water injustices in the Salar de Atacama, Chile
Commodities Consensus
That's the problem with that lake; it changes sides
Neoextractivism and Indigenous Water Ritual in Salar de Atacama, Chile
The political ecologies of "green" extractivism(s)
The Militarisation and Marketisation of Nature
Análisis histórico genético de la población de la región de Antofagasta revela discontinuidad en la costa y valles interiores
The Mushroom at the End of the World
Comunidades Indígenas, Empresas Del Litio Y Sus Relaciones en El Salar De Atacama
Entre Dos Aguas
Nostalgias, conversiones y desbordes en San Pedro de Atacama
Socios
The Threat of the Yrmo
Why Has Critique Run out of Steam? From Matters of Fact to Matters of Concern
On the Coloniality of Being
The incursions of extractivism
| Citations per year | 3 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2025 - 2026 (2) |
| Highly cited | No |