Land grabbing or value grabbing? Land rent and wind energy in the Isthmus of Tehuantepec, Oaxaca
| Autor: | Lourdes Alonso Serna |
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| Rok vydání: | 2021 |
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Wind power
business.industry 050204 development studies 05 social sciences 0507 social and economic geography Land grabbing General Business Management and Accounting Agricultural economics Nameplate capacity Land rent Geography 0502 economics and business Value (economics) business 050703 geography |
| Zdroj: | Competition & Change. 26:487-503 |
| ISSN: | 1477-2221 1024-5294 |
| Popis: | The Isthmus of Tehuantepec in Oaxaca is the first region in Mexico with a large-scale wind energy development. The region holds 60% of the country’s installed capacity, but the new infrastructure has faced opposition from sectors of the local population concerned about wind farms’ social and environmental impacts. The opposition and ensuing conflicts have been widely studied; some of these studies have framed wind energy as part of the recent cycle of land grabbing. Nevertheless, this literature has overlooked landholders’ acceptance of wind energy. This paper aims to address this gap and argues that the main driver of the land grabbing process is land rent. The paper draws on recent insights from political ecology that highlight that the commodification of nature is predicated on rent. The paper uses the notion of value grabbing to look at the social struggles over property rights in the Isthmus and the conflicts for the increase and distribution of rents from wind energy. |
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