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E-book Energopolitics
hen Cymene and I wrote the proposal to the National Science Founda-tion for the grant that would eventually fund the main period of our field research, we more or less took for granted the significance of human politi-cal power in addressing climate change. We said we wished to investigate the “political culture” of wind power development in southern Mexico in order to understand how a “vulnerable state” like Mexico was going to be able to orchestrate a diverse and potentially contentious field of stakeholders and follow through on the federal government’s ambitious clean electricity production targets. We questioned whether “states, especially those already struggling to meet their current governmental obligations, possess the po-litical authority to implement important programs of national development such as renewable energy.” But we did not question whether “political culture” itself—a term we used in a deliberately expansive way to signal not only the interactions between states and citizens but also the political negoti-ations and exchanges among stakeholders including local landowners, activ-ists, political parties, ngos, journalists, and representatives of transnational corporations—was an assemblage from which one might reasonably expect efficacious responses to climate change and strategies for energy transition to emerge.
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