Maintaining power: Decarbonisation and recentralisation in Cuba's Energy Revolution
Maintaining power: Decarbonisation and recentralisation in Cuba's Energy Revolution
复制标题
维持电力：古巴能源革命中的脱碳和重新集中化
DOI：
10.1111/tran.12330
复制
发表时间：
2019
影响因子：
3.3
通讯作者：
Cederlöf G
中科院分区：
文献类型：
--
作者：
Cederlöf G
随着2005年的能源革命，古巴国有经济的能源和碳强度下降了三分之一以上。然而，这不仅仅是一个低碳转型的问题，这篇文章认为，能源革命是一种试图通过日常能源使用来维持社会权力关系的尝试。根据古巴的档案和民族志实地考察，本文将能源基础设施概念化为社会生活生态条件的共同构成。能源基础设施通过实施能源分配的政治经济制度来塑造人类的行动和互动。本文追溯了指导古巴长期电气化运动的国家社会主义逻辑，并展示了20世纪90年代“特殊时期”众多基于市场的能源系统如何破坏了这一逻辑。最后，通过考察能源革命期间的三个核心干预措施，它展示了能源革命如何通过能源使用重新集中权力关系，重新建立社会主义国家的霸权。如果能源使用被视为一个政治生态过程，那么能源基础设施的维护就是一种加强社会生态秩序的行为，因此也是一系列政治经济关系。
With the Energy Revolution of 2005, the energy and carbon intensity of the Cuban state‐economy decreased by over a third. More than an issue of low‐carbon transition, however, this article suggests that the Energy Revolution was an attempt to maintain social power relations through everyday energy use. Drawing on archival and ethnographic fieldwork in Cuba, the article conceptualises energy infrastructures as co‐constitutive of the ecological conditions for social life. Energy infrastructures shape human action and interaction by operationalising political‐economic regimes of energy distribution. The article traces the state‐socialist logic guiding Cuba's longstanding electrification campaign and shows how a multitude of market‐based energy systems during the 1990s “special period” undermined this logic. By examining three core interventions during the Energy Revolution, finally, it demonstrates how the Energy Revolution recentralised power relations through energy use, re‐establishing the hegemony of the socialist state. If energy use is seen as a political‐ecological process, the maintenance of energy infrastructure is an act that reinforces a socio‐ecological order and, hence, a set of political‐economic relations.