The remaking of social property and wind energy trajectories in the Isthmus of Tehuantepec, Mexico
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 7971708 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Gerardo A Torres Contreras (0000-0003-2520-7924, King's College London, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2024 |
| Volume | 115 |
| Pages | 103209 |
| Publication date | 2024-11-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Political Geography (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0962-6298 • E-ISSN: 1873-5096 |
| Publisher | Elsevier BV (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1016/j.polgeo.2024.103209 |
| OpenAlex | W4402911715 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 38 |
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-exist. Drawing on 83 interviews with local stakeholders and continuous fieldwork since 2017, the paper argues that wind energy and social property have remade each other through two central dynamics. In the ejido system, first, wind power expansion treated the land as private property because of processes of certification and parcellation resulting from the 1992 agrarian reform. In this regime, contestations against wind power expansion have revolved around contractual terms rather than about the installation of wind farms. In the agrarian community, on the other hand, wind power has facilitated efforts to regularise private property through a unique agrarian figure of possession of the land of communal origin. At the same time, it has collided with the resurgence of collective land authorities in the town of Unión Hidalgo. This galvanised contestations against wind energy to revolve around the defence collective land. Therefore, this paper contributes to the scholarship analysing the agrarian consequences of climate mitigation technologies in Mexico and Latin America
Economic geography · Economics · Economy · Electrical engineering · Epistemology · Geography · Political science · Wind power · Agriculture, Land Use, Rural Development · Energy and Environment Impacts · Engineering · Philosophy · Social Acceptance of Renewable Energy
Lo que el viento no se llevó. El papel de los ganaderos en la promoción de la industria eólica en el Istmo de Tehuantepec, Oaxaca
Who owns the land owns the wind? Land and citizenship in the Isthmus of Tehuantepec, Mexico
Energy justice from the bottom up
Grounding the energy justice lifecycle framework
Justice, social exclusion and indigenous opposition
Transactional colonialism in wind energy investments
The Town is Surrounded
Linking Institutions for Collective Action to Agrarian Change
Consultas, Corporations, and Governance in Tehuantepec, Mexico
This is all waste’
Contested visions of sustainable development in conflicts over renewable energy, land, and human rights
Making Space for Energy
The Tehuantepec Railroad
The Oil Boom
Beyond the subterranean energy regime? Fuel, land use and the production of space
Spatial justice and the land politics of renewables
Petro-populism and infrastructural energy landscapes
Insurrection for land, sea and dignity
Contesting energy transitions
Solar power, state power, and the politics of energy transition in pre-Saharan Morocco
The landrush of wind energy, its socio-material workings, and its political consequences
An intersectional approach to energy justice
Theorizing Energy Geographies
Power for the Plantationocene
The sun and the scythe
Murderous energy’ in Oaxaca, Mexico
La falacia de la comunidad agraria-indígena de las dos izquierdas mexicanas
Tradition and the New Social Movements
Political Conflict and Land Tenure in the Mexican Isthmus of Tehuantepec
Eólicos e inversión privada
Land Tenure and Tenure Regimes in Mexico
Twenty-five years under the wind turbines in La Venta, Mexico
Making the political, and doing politics
New frontiers of land control
| Unique citing works | 1 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1 |
| Citation span | 2025 - 2025 (1) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |