Nuestra casa comienza en Chacao
Ecoautoridades, burocracia y transición energética en torno a una carretera eléctrica en Chiloé, Chile
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 19227331 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Gabriela Cabaña (0000-0002-1661-6892, Institute for Cultural Inquiry, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2026 |
| Volume | 31 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Publication date | 2026-05-30 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Anthropology (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1935-4932 • E-ISSN: 1935-4940 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1111/jlca.70050 |
| OpenAlex | W7162863398 |
| Language | ES |
| References cited | 35 |
Latin America has experienced an increase in environmental conflicts related to the development of non‐conventional renewable energy sources. The result of militant research, this article analyzes the political mobilization of a group of people on Chiloé’s largest island in response to the environmental evaluation process of a transmission line in 2020. My interlocutors' points of disagreement with the project lie, on the one hand, in the realization of citizen participation processes under adverse sanitary conditions in the context of the pandemic. On the other hand, they are related to previous experiences with the impacts of electricity‐related infrastructure in other parts of Chiloé. I describe the opposing notions of anthropocenic ecoauthority pushed by both my interlocutors and state institutions. While the state institutions took a productivist perspective, focusing on the urgency of economic reactivation to address the impacts of the pandemic and the need to accelerate the construction of transmission infrastructure for decarbonization, my interlocutors' communication campaign argued for the politicization of energy and its broader impacts on the territory. Both perspectives are situated within the long history of the Chiloé archipelago as an internal frontier in relation to Chile
Archipelago · Context (archaeology) · Frontier · Latin Americans · Politics · State (computer science) · Cultural and Social Studies in Latin America · Political and Social Dynamics in Chile and Latin America · Water Governance and Infrastructure
Navigating Austerity
Power Struggles
Rule of Experts
Mythical Infrastructuring
Análisis histórico-cultural del alerce en la Patagonia septentrional occidental, Chiloé, siglos XVI al XIX
The Chilean energy “transition”
Funcionarios públicos y evaluación ambiental en Chile
Looking back to go forward? The interplay between long-term futures and political expectations in sustainability transitions in Chile
Roads
Contesting energy transitions
Wind extraction? Gifts, reciprocity, and renewability in Colombia's energy frontier
Las respuestas sociales a la instalación de parques eólicos
Ethnographies of Power
Putting Large-Scale Infrastructure Projects First
How do environmental impact assessments fail to prevent social conflict? Government technologies in a dam project in Colombia
Aesthetics of green dispossession
"Chilote tipo salmón". Relaciones entre comodificación de la naturaleza y procesos de producción identitaria
Toward an Ethnography of the National Economy
An Anthropology of Electricity from the Global South
Anthropocenic Ecoauthority
Militant ethnography and autonomous politics in Latin America
La captura del viento
The Cause of All Paraguayans? Defining and Defending Hydroelectric Sovereignty
Infrastructures of the Frontier in Latin America
Socios
Autonomy, productiveness, and community
The Nature of Sovereignty in the Anthropocene
Entrepreneurs in the making
| Citation velocity | historical |
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| Highly cited | No |