Greetings,
Just writing to share a new research article that came out a couple months ago in the Journal of Peasant Studies titled: "Counterinsurgency for wind energy: the Bíi Hioxo wind park in Juchitán, Mexico.'
Journal link: http://www.tandfonline.com/…/abs/10.…/03066150.2016.1259221…
First 50 free: http://www.tandfonline.com/eprint/z52Vk3fPsuBbvnNVrFMV/full
After go to: https://v-u.academia.edu/AlexanderDunlap
Enjoy if this interests you.
Abstract
Sustainable development and climate change mitigation policies, Dunlap and Fairhead
argue, have instigated and renewed old conflicts over land and natural resources,
deploying military techniques of counterinsurgency to achieve land control. Wind
energy development, a popular tool of climate change mitigation policies, has
consequently generated conflict in the Isthmus of Tehuantepec (Istmo) region in
Oaxaca, Mexico. Research is based on participant observation and 20 recorded
interviews investigating the Fuerza y Energía Bíi Hioxo Wind Farm on the outskirts
of Juchitán de Zaragoza. This paper details the repressive techniques employed by
state, private and informal authorities against popular opposition to the construction
of the Bíi Hioxo wind park on communal land. Providing background on Juchitán,
social property and counterinsurgency in Southern Mexico, this paper analyzes the
development of the Bíi Hioxo wind park. It further explores the emergence of ‘hard’
and ‘soft’ counterinsurgency techniques used to pacify resistance against the wind
park, enabling its completion next to the Lagoon Superior in October 2014.
Discussing the ‘greening of counterinsurgency’, this contribution concludes that the
Bíi Hioxo wind park has spawned social divisions and violent conflict, and
intervened in the sensitive cultural fabric of Istmeño life.
All the Best,
Alexander Dunlap
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