The unfinished promise of solar infrastructure: Spatiotemporal entanglements in Mexico's energy transition
太陽光インフラの未完の約束：メキシコのエネルギー転換における時空間的錯綜 (AI 翻訳)
Itzell Torres
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日本語
本論文は、メキシコ・ユカタン州の70MW太陽光発電所が市民訴訟により中断された事例を民族誌的に分析。インフラを時空間的・感情的絡まりとして捉え、中断が土地や労働、社会生態関係、将来期待を再編することを論じる。低炭素インフラの未完性が政治的に作用する様態を批判的に検討する。
English
This paper ethnographically examines the suspension of a 70 MW solar PV park in Yucatán, Mexico, halted by a grassroots legal injunction. It conceptualizes infrastructure as spatiotemporal and affective entanglements, arguing that suspended solar infrastructure reconfigures land, labor, socio-ecological relations, and future expectations even without energy production. The study contributes to critical energy transition scholarship by foregrounding infrastructural incompletion.
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日本のGX文脈において
日本でも太陽光発電の適地選定や地域住民との軋轢は重要課題。本論文は、インフラ中断がもたらす社会的影響を考察する枠組みを提供し、日本の再生可能エネルギー導入における合意形成や地域経済への示唆を含む。
In the global GX context
This paper offers a critical perspective on energy transition infrastructure, focusing on the social and political dimensions of solar project suspension. Globally, it contributes to understanding how low-carbon infrastructures are contested and governed, relevant for scholars and practitioners dealing with community opposition and uneven benefits in renewable energy deployment.
👥 読者別の含意
🔬研究者:Critical energy transition and infrastructure studies scholars will find a novel framework analyzing infrastructural incompletion as a constitutive condition.
🏛政策担当者:Policymakers can learn about the importance of community engagement and equitable benefit distribution in renewable energy projects to avoid legal and social conflicts.
📄 Abstract（原文）
This article examines the suspension of the Yucatán Solar PV park, a 70 MW utility-scale project halted through a grassroots legal injunction. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork in Yucatán, the study situates the project within Mexico's hydrocarbon legacies, uneven geographies of electricity provision, and histories of infrastructural neglect. Conceptually, the paper approaches infrastructure as a spatiotemporal and affective entanglement, emphasizing how promises, absences, and suspension reshape present and future geographies. The analysis unfolds across four dimensions: the embedding of solar infrastructure within existing hydrocarbon energy landscapes framed by promises of clean energy transition; the everyday labor of retrofitting neglect and infrastructural absence; the displacement of responsibility through solar siting and uneven benefit distribution; and the material and affective afterlives of suspension. The article argues that infrastructures exert political power beyond their operational life. The case demonstrates how suspended solar infrastructure reconfigures land, labor, socio-ecological relations, and future expectations even in the absence of energy production. In doing so, the paper contributes to critical scholarship on energy transitions and infrastructure studies by foregrounding infrastructural incompletion as a constitutive condition through which low-carbon infrastructures are experienced, governed, and contested.
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