Tangling and untangling a renewable energy frontier in Northern Colombia

This seminar will host a discussion with Pablo Jaramillo (Universidad de los Andes, Colombia) about Energy Transition (ET) in Colombia.

As Energy Transitions talk intensifies in Colombia, questions regarding their potential for (in)justice are endemic. 

Instead of taking an abstract route to tackle this question, this paper enquiries on the reproduction of ideas and practices to produce the “regional and national economy” in the information infrastructures used to enable and realise renewable operations (solar and wind farms, electric lines, and other related infrastructures) to transform the energy matrix in a critical energy frontier in Colombia (La Guajira and Cesar departments, in the north of the country). 

In an ethnography of how officers, company representatives and dwellers of territories navigate the extractive legacies, uncertainties and ignorance produced by environmental archives, the paper aims to broaden the concept of extractive-renewable nexus and propose some ideas on how to overcome what we call an ET archive fever. 

The Seminar presents the findings from a project the author is conducting with his collaborator Valeria Talfurt.

About the speaker

• Pablo Jaramillo (Universidad de los Andes, Colombia)

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