es una de las figuras más destacadas en el campo de la sociología económica. Como lo muestra en e... more es una de las figuras más destacadas en el campo de la sociología económica. Como lo muestra en esta entrevista, su motivación más penetrante ha sido la investigación de la disonancia entre los múltiples mundos sociales que se pueden encontrar en la sociedad moderna, tanto en la gran escala de la tensión entre socialismo
The ‘Techno-Climate Glossary’ is a collaborative work that compiles en- tries addressing key conc... more The ‘Techno-Climate Glossary’ is a collaborative work that compiles en- tries addressing key concepts for exploring the intersection between tech- nology and the climate crisis. Each entry is presented concisely, making key points about the following terms: ‘Digital Activism’, ‘Climate Disruption’, ‘Anthropocene’, ‘Atmosphere’, ‘Social Tipping Dynamics’, ‘Gaia’, ‘Geosym- biosis’, ‘Progress’, ‘Sustainability’, ‘Local Technologies’, ‘Risk Transfer’ and ‘Socio-ecological Just Transition’. This glossary not only clarifies concepts, but also challenges conventional meanings, proposing new interpretations. It is framed as an effort to understand how technology shapes and is shaped by the climate crisis, and is an essential tool for engaging with contempo- rary debates on this intersection.
Tapuya: Latin American Science, Technology and Society., 2022
This article presents some key aspects related to the development the "local technologies catalog... more This article presents some key aspects related to the development the "local technologies catalog for climate action," a platform aimed at making visible different artifacts, strategies, and practices developed and/or adapted to mitigate a specific socio-environmental problem by communities in different territories of Chile. Relying on a long scholarly tradition on the emancipatory and transformative role of grassroot technologies, we reflect on the process of creating a catalogue of local technologies and the nature and role of these technologies as tools for climate action. Together with discussing the main methodological challenges involved in the process of cataloguing, we develop three theorical aspects that emerge from the technologies that were mapped: how local technologies involve communities taking a central in defining what is problematic in specific environmental problems; the different forms in which these technologies are valued; and the logics of combination, adaptation, and variation that underlie these technologies. Based on this, we propose approaching local technologies, as a form of baroque tools that results from the situated assemblage and mixture of different logics, values, knowledge, and materialities. We finish discussing whether local technologies and the catalogue constitute a productive space to deploy more radical forms of climate action.
El presente artículo presenta una visión panorámica de los estudios sociales de la energía a la v... more El presente artículo presenta una visión panorámica de los estudios sociales de la energía a la vez que introduce los artículos del monográfico. Se comienza presentando las razones que explican la progresiva visibilidad de las temáticas energéticas en la sociología, aludiendo al desafío que impone el cambio climático y la creciente atención de las ciencias sociales hacia la dimensión material de la vida social. Se propone entender la energía como un objeto de estudio de carácter esencialmente socio técnico, esto es, como un fenómeno que exige una aproximación que dé cuenta de los aspectos materiales, técnicos, sociales y culturales que lo constituyen. El artículo presenta luego diferentes áreas de investigación relevantes para el debate sociológico sobre la intersección entre energía y sociedad y su relación con las contribuciones al monográfico. Los estudios que se presentan no sólo tienen interés para la comunidad académica del área de la sociología, sino que pueden ser de utilida...
This article presents a critical review of Social Practices Theory, a label that group works that... more This article presents a critical review of Social Practices Theory, a label that group works that consider the practice as the fundamental component of the social world. The article discusses and presents in a synthetic way a set of recent theoretical works associated to this theory. Social Practices Theory is described as an attempt to avoid the traditional dualism of social theory based on the concept of practice which, following the work of Elizabeth Shove, is defined as the intersection of materialities, meaning and practical knowledge. The article discusses how Social Practices Theory accounts for the dynamics of social change by focusing on examining the trajectories of practices and their components. It illustrates the possibilities and limitations of this theory by describing how Social Practices Theory has been used in environmental sociology and sustainable consumption.
This article describes how value is defined, mobilized, and assessed in green circular economy st... more This article describes how value is defined, mobilized, and assessed in green circular economy startups. Drawing on recent debates about value and valuation in economic life and the empirical evidence collected from 30 interviews with green entrepreneurs, we focus on unpacking the value narratives developed in circular economy business settings. More specifically, we show how value is organized around the “win-win formula” a narrative plot in which economic and environmental gains reinforce each other. We highlight several key elements that organize this win-win plot: First, business opportunity and business models work as critical discursive elements. Second, we describe how clients and investors are the main conferrers of value. Third, we show how economic survival works as the ultimate evaluative framework of a company's worth. We conclude by asserting that circular economy narratives of value are underpinned by a mostly economic mode of valuing that prevail over environmental considerations.
Este artículo ofrece una reflexión sobre el rol de la sociología y otras disciplinas afines en la... more Este artículo ofrece una reflexión sobre el rol de la sociología y otras disciplinas afines en la imaginación y diseño de futuros alternativos deseables. En primer lugar, se analiza la relación entre las ciencias sociales y la actividad de pensar futuros deseables, constatando el predominio de la economía y la relativa invisibilidad de formas de pensamiento sociológico en esta tarea. Luego de examinar las limitaciones de la economía como marco principal para pensar alternativas deseables, se propone la necesidad de desarrollar una implicación más activa de las ciencias sociales, en particular de la sociología, en la tarea de pensar alternativas de futuro, esfuerzo conectado con una larga tradición de pensamiento sociológico. En segundo lugar, se identifican y describen dos modalidades principales a partir de las cuales la sociología ha abordado alternativas de futuro deseables, examinando sus posibilidades y límites. Una primera modalidad, de carácter principalmente discursivo, se ha centrado en la creación de discursos epocales de transformación social anclados en diagnósticos y propuestas normativas de futuro. Denominamos a esta primera versión modalidades declarativas de futuro. Una segunda modalidad, de carácter empírico y situado, se ha concentrado en estudiar formas de experimentación colectiva que encarnan empíricamente alternativas de futuro y/o en desarrollar metodologías para este fin. Denominamos a esta segunda versión, modalidades prefigurativas de futuro. En tercer lugar, y en base al análisis previo el articulo propone tres caminos como ejes para potenciar una sociología de las alternativas: abordar el problema de la escala, en particular la tensión entre lo universal y lo múltiple en las propuestas de futuro; la relación entre estas propuestas y el mundo de las instituciones, en particular su relación con el estado; y, el rol central de las infraestructuras como medios para encarnar y movilizar alternativas de futuro deseable. Palabras claves. FUTUROS, SOCIOLOGÍA DE LAS ALTERNATIVAS, TEORÍA SOCIAL, CRISIS SOCIAL Y AMBIENTAL.
Abstract. This article offers a theoretical reflection on how sociology and other related social sciences can contribute to imagine and mobilize desirable alternative futures. The argument is organized as follows. Firstly, I explore the relationship between social sciences and the tasks of imagining and designing alternatives futures. We highlight the actual predominance of economics and the invisibility of other forms of social as critical tools for thinking desirable futures. After highlighting of economic thinking for proposing alternatives futures, we argue that a more active involvement of social sciences, particularly sociology, is needed. By engaging in this task, sociology is also connecting to a long tradition of sociological thought about alternatives. In the second part of the paper, we identify two modalities from which sociology has approached the problem of alternative futures. We do so by examining their possibilities and limits. A first modality focus on the production of epochal discourses of social change and often combines a sociological diagnosis with a set of normative frameworks that define a desirable future. We call this first version declarative modalities of the future. A second modality has focus mainly on studying empirical forms of collective experimentation that embody alternatives for the future and/or on developing methodologies for fostering concrete alternatives. We label this second version pre-figurative modalities of the future. In the last part of the paper, and based on the previous analysis, we proposes three critical paths to further encourage a sociology of alternatives, namely: addressing the problem of scale, in particular the tension between the universal and the multiple as constitute elements of any proposed alternative; second, considering the world of institutions, the state in particular, as critical spaces trough which alternatives can be materialized, and third, the central role of infrastructures as a tools to embody and mobilize alternatives for a desirable futures. Keywords. FUTURES, SOCIOLOGY OF ALTERNATIVES, SOCIAL THEORY, ENVIRONMENTAL AND SOCIAL CRISIS.
While there has been an increasing interest in exploring the features and possibilities of off-gr... more While there has been an increasing interest in exploring the features and possibilities of off-grid photovoltaic projects, less attention has been given to the infrastructural and sociomaterial arrangements through which these types of bottom-up energy projects are organized. Following a long-term scholarly interest in energy infrastructures and their role in enabling material forms of politics, this article analyses how different of the processes of designing, installing, and using photovoltaic energy infrastructures co-produces different forms of energy ecologies and specific forms of local energy publics. In doing so, we seek to advance an empirical and theoretical understanding of the links between off-grid energy infrastructures and the politics and governances of such type of low carbon transitions. The argument is empirically unfolded by unpacking the installation and early operation of two recent off-grid photovoltaic (PV) energy projects in rural areas in Chile. We focus on describing how the design, installation, and use of these infrastructures involves producing specific energy ecologies as well as the organization of local energy publics. In this sense, we suggest that by attending to these processes, we might help to unveil the different kinds of material politics taking place in off-grid PV projects. We focus on the potentially higher forms of plasticity ingrained in these types of off-grid energy infrastructures, which result in varied forms of materializing energy use and in distributing the agencies of the different actors involved.
This article focusses on describing the different domestic and non-domestic practices and infrast... more This article focusses on describing the different domestic and non-domestic practices and infrastructures through which heating is organized in domestic settings. Based on recent scholar work interested on researching the interlinks between domestic heating use and non-domestic energy practices and infrastructures, it proposes to understand domestic heating as the practical outcome of existing heating ecologies defined as the dynamic interrelations of in-home and out-home heating infrastructures and practices. The argument is empirically unfolded with material from a 6-month ethnographic fieldwork of a heater replacement policy program in central and southern Chile. Relying on participant observation and follow up interviews, we describe the installation phase and establishment of new less polluting heaters, as well as how the installation of those new heaters problematizes and redefine preexisting heating ecologies comprising domestic and non-domestic practices and infrastructures linked to firewood heating. We focused on two specific aspects of this change which proved to be particularly relevant in terms of the adoption of the new heaters. Firstly, the change in the infrastructures and practices of fuel provision and, second, the change in the infrastructures and practices of maintenance and repair. We finish suggesting that further understand heating ecologies —their dynamic and change— could be a critical element in explaining the success or failure of low carbon domestic technological transitions and policy intervention.
El presente artículo presenta una visión panorámica de los estudios sociales de la energía a la v... more El presente artículo presenta una visión panorámica de los estudios sociales de la energía a la vez que introduce los artículos del monográfico. Se comienzan presentando las razones que explican la progresiva visibilidad de las temáticas energéticas en la sociología, aludiendo al desafío que impone el cambio climático y la creciente atención de las ciencias sociales hacia la dimensión material de la vida social. Se propone entender la energía como un objeto de estudio de carácter esencialmente socio técnico, esto es, como un fenómeno que exige una aproximación que dé cuenta de los aspectos materiales, técnicos, sociales y culturales que lo constituyen. El artículo presenta luego diferentes áreas de investigación relevantes para el debate sociológico sobre la intersección entre energía y sociedad y su relación con las contribuciones al monográfico. Los estudios que se presentan no sólo tienen interés para la comunidad académica del área de la sociología, sino que pueden ser utilidad para profesionales de la energía e investigadores de otras disciplinas interesados en abordar los aspectos sociales de la energía.
This paper aims to reflect on some key issues linked to the production of digital objects in busi... more This paper aims to reflect on some key issues linked to the production of digital objects in business settings. In doing so, it problematizes current social science scholarship, which emphasizes the analysis of digital data and analytics, reinforces the magnitude of its consequences and “data power”. The paper proposes making three corrective “movements” that might enrich our approaches to how databases and analytics are assembled in business settings. The first movement involves the problem of ethnographic access to data-making practices. We propose taking seriously the issue of fabricating an ethnographic encounter where the process of making digital objects is exposed. The second movement concerns the visibility and the type of politics taking place in data practices. We argue for the need to displace attention from data impacts and results to the myriad of mundane practices and devices through which these objects are assembled. The third movement we suggest requires a focus on examining error and failure as key aspects of the manufacturing of consumer databases. Each of these movements is illustrated by ethnographic vignettes from a 9-month ethnographic experiment which involved participating in the first stages of the manufacturing of an online financial retail company's consumer database.
Este artículo presenta una visión crítica de la Teoría de las Prácticas Sociales (TPS), etiqueta ... more Este artículo presenta una visión crítica de la Teoría de las Prácticas Sociales (TPS), etiqueta con el cual se agrupan aquellas teorías que definen las prácticas como el componente fundamental del mundo social. El articulo discute y presenta de modo sintético un conjunto de trabajos teóricos recientes asociados a esta teoría. A su vez, evalúa críticamente algunas de las posibilidades y limitaciones de la TPS. El articulo está organizado de la siguiente forma. En primer lugar, se discute algunos de los antecedentes teóricos y filosóficos de la TPS. Seguidamente se discute el concepto de practica y sus componentes y la compresión de las dinámicas de cambio que presenta esta teoría. Finalmente se ilustra la discusión anterior presentando las aplicaciones de esta teoría en el ámbito de la sociología del medioambiente y el consumo sustentable. El articulo termina discutiendo críticamente algunas de las debilidades y limitaciones de esta aproximación teórica.
Mainstream conceptualizations of ‘ethical consumption’ equate the notion with conscious, individu... more Mainstream conceptualizations of ‘ethical consumption’ equate the notion with conscious, individual, market-mediated choices motivated by ethical or political aims that transcend ordinary concerns. Drawing on data from 32 focus groups conducted in Chile and Brazil on ethical consumption, this article discusses some of the limitations of this conceptualization. First, linking the findings to recent sociology and anthropology of consumption literature, we suggest that this conceptualization fails to capture how ethics and consumption are linked in everyday life. Second, we argue that a largest part of ‘ethical outcomes’ (as defined by ethical consumption movements) in these countries are in fact results of practices following ordinary ethical concerns, which are incompatible with the basic tenets of the standard definition of ethical consumption. Therefore the article proposes a conceptualization of ethical consumption that does not centre on individual, market-mediated choices but understands ethical consumption at the level of practical outcomes, which we will refer to different types of ‘ethical living’. We illustrate these points by describing one particular ordinary moral regime that seemed to be predominant in participants’ account of ethics and consumption in both countries: one that links consumption and ethics through care. We describe how, while leading to ‘ethical outcomes’, such as energy saving or limiting overconsumption, these consumption ethics seldom rely on the mainstream view of ethical consumption as related to a politicized choice expressed through markets. Instead, they produce ‘ethical outcomes’ through following ordinary ethics and combatting, rather than embracing individual, market-mediated choices. In this context, we argue, ‘ethical consumption’ as a discourse might be inadvertently contributing to the erosion of practices leading to ‘ethical outcomes’, through reinforcing the discourse of market-based, individual choice.
En el marco de un creciente interés de la sociología del medioambiente y la energía por estudiar ... more En el marco de un creciente interés de la sociología del medioambiente y la energía por estudiar los procesos de transición hacia sistemas energéticos pro ambientales, este artículo presenta los principales hallazgos empíricos de un estudio de caso que aborda cualitativamente una política de recambio de estufas en la ciudad de Temuco, Chile. El articulo utiliza dos enfoques teóricos complementarios, la Multilevel perspective (MLP) y la Teoría de las Prácticas Sociales (TPS) para describir la existencia de mecanismos de bloqueo a los procesos de transición sostenible, tanto a nivel institucional como a nivel de las practicas asociadas al uso de las estufas. El artículo se basa en 23 entrevistas semiestructuradas a actores claves del proceso de recambio y 23 ejercicios de observación participante orientadas a describir las prácticas de calefacción de los hogares de Temuco. Las lecciones aprendidas en este artículo, refuerzan la tesis promovida por otros autores quienes sugieren que los conceptos abordados desde una sola perspectiva teórica raramente nos proveen del conocimiento profundo acerca de las interacciones humano-energía necesario para desarrollar una transición hacia sistemas energéticos pro ambientales.
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By using two sociological theoretical approaches, the Multilevel Perspective (MLP) and the Social Practices Theory (TPS), this paper examines a concrete a wood-burning stoves replacement policy in the city of Temuco. This is done by relying on 23 interviews with key actors and 23 participant observation exercise aimed at describing the heating practices of Temuco households. The article describes four lock-in mechanisms that might posit difficulties in terms of fostering a transition into more environmentally friendly heating practices and technologies. In line with previous scholar work by suggesting that in order to facilitate a transition towards pro-environmental energy systems, more interaction and dialogue between different sociological approaches to human-energy interaction is needed.
Abstract: Social studies of finance can be split in two types: studies that have paid attention t... more Abstract: Social studies of finance can be split in two types: studies that have paid attention to “market devices” (such as scorings and credit cards) enacted by financial firms and studies that analyze new practices and modes of “ordinary calculation” developed by consumers of financial services around the world. This article is part of a broader project that aims at opening a different path that locates social studies of domestic finances at the intersection where both kinds of calculation – the big data of market devices and the small data of ordinary financial practices- can be simultaneously observed. More specifically, this article discusses some of the methodological challenges faced from this new position, particularly, how we used some of the traces left by big data and how we dealt with an surprising “commercial circuit” founded in our material.
This chapter focuses on exploring the different knowledge practices and devices mobilized during ... more This chapter focuses on exploring the different knowledge practices and devices mobilized during the production of creative concepts in advertising campaigns. More concretely, I examine a particular device of creative work, namely “references” -usually images, videos, advertisements, web pages or other entities used in creative processes. In doing so, I describe advertising references as a particular type of inscription device used to make visible, and mobilize, the qualities of creative ideas. Furthermore, I propose understanding references as a particular valuation device through which creative worth is assessed and mobilized in advertising processes.
es una de las figuras más destacadas en el campo de la sociología económica. Como lo muestra en e... more es una de las figuras más destacadas en el campo de la sociología económica. Como lo muestra en esta entrevista, su motivación más penetrante ha sido la investigación de la disonancia entre los múltiples mundos sociales que se pueden encontrar en la sociedad moderna, tanto en la gran escala de la tensión entre socialismo
The ‘Techno-Climate Glossary’ is a collaborative work that compiles en- tries addressing key conc... more The ‘Techno-Climate Glossary’ is a collaborative work that compiles en- tries addressing key concepts for exploring the intersection between tech- nology and the climate crisis. Each entry is presented concisely, making key points about the following terms: ‘Digital Activism’, ‘Climate Disruption’, ‘Anthropocene’, ‘Atmosphere’, ‘Social Tipping Dynamics’, ‘Gaia’, ‘Geosym- biosis’, ‘Progress’, ‘Sustainability’, ‘Local Technologies’, ‘Risk Transfer’ and ‘Socio-ecological Just Transition’. This glossary not only clarifies concepts, but also challenges conventional meanings, proposing new interpretations. It is framed as an effort to understand how technology shapes and is shaped by the climate crisis, and is an essential tool for engaging with contempo- rary debates on this intersection.
Tapuya: Latin American Science, Technology and Society., 2022
This article presents some key aspects related to the development the "local technologies catalog... more This article presents some key aspects related to the development the "local technologies catalog for climate action," a platform aimed at making visible different artifacts, strategies, and practices developed and/or adapted to mitigate a specific socio-environmental problem by communities in different territories of Chile. Relying on a long scholarly tradition on the emancipatory and transformative role of grassroot technologies, we reflect on the process of creating a catalogue of local technologies and the nature and role of these technologies as tools for climate action. Together with discussing the main methodological challenges involved in the process of cataloguing, we develop three theorical aspects that emerge from the technologies that were mapped: how local technologies involve communities taking a central in defining what is problematic in specific environmental problems; the different forms in which these technologies are valued; and the logics of combination, adaptation, and variation that underlie these technologies. Based on this, we propose approaching local technologies, as a form of baroque tools that results from the situated assemblage and mixture of different logics, values, knowledge, and materialities. We finish discussing whether local technologies and the catalogue constitute a productive space to deploy more radical forms of climate action.
El presente artículo presenta una visión panorámica de los estudios sociales de la energía a la v... more El presente artículo presenta una visión panorámica de los estudios sociales de la energía a la vez que introduce los artículos del monográfico. Se comienza presentando las razones que explican la progresiva visibilidad de las temáticas energéticas en la sociología, aludiendo al desafío que impone el cambio climático y la creciente atención de las ciencias sociales hacia la dimensión material de la vida social. Se propone entender la energía como un objeto de estudio de carácter esencialmente socio técnico, esto es, como un fenómeno que exige una aproximación que dé cuenta de los aspectos materiales, técnicos, sociales y culturales que lo constituyen. El artículo presenta luego diferentes áreas de investigación relevantes para el debate sociológico sobre la intersección entre energía y sociedad y su relación con las contribuciones al monográfico. Los estudios que se presentan no sólo tienen interés para la comunidad académica del área de la sociología, sino que pueden ser de utilida...
This article presents a critical review of Social Practices Theory, a label that group works that... more This article presents a critical review of Social Practices Theory, a label that group works that consider the practice as the fundamental component of the social world. The article discusses and presents in a synthetic way a set of recent theoretical works associated to this theory. Social Practices Theory is described as an attempt to avoid the traditional dualism of social theory based on the concept of practice which, following the work of Elizabeth Shove, is defined as the intersection of materialities, meaning and practical knowledge. The article discusses how Social Practices Theory accounts for the dynamics of social change by focusing on examining the trajectories of practices and their components. It illustrates the possibilities and limitations of this theory by describing how Social Practices Theory has been used in environmental sociology and sustainable consumption.
This article describes how value is defined, mobilized, and assessed in green circular economy st... more This article describes how value is defined, mobilized, and assessed in green circular economy startups. Drawing on recent debates about value and valuation in economic life and the empirical evidence collected from 30 interviews with green entrepreneurs, we focus on unpacking the value narratives developed in circular economy business settings. More specifically, we show how value is organized around the “win-win formula” a narrative plot in which economic and environmental gains reinforce each other. We highlight several key elements that organize this win-win plot: First, business opportunity and business models work as critical discursive elements. Second, we describe how clients and investors are the main conferrers of value. Third, we show how economic survival works as the ultimate evaluative framework of a company's worth. We conclude by asserting that circular economy narratives of value are underpinned by a mostly economic mode of valuing that prevail over environmental considerations.
Este artículo ofrece una reflexión sobre el rol de la sociología y otras disciplinas afines en la... more Este artículo ofrece una reflexión sobre el rol de la sociología y otras disciplinas afines en la imaginación y diseño de futuros alternativos deseables. En primer lugar, se analiza la relación entre las ciencias sociales y la actividad de pensar futuros deseables, constatando el predominio de la economía y la relativa invisibilidad de formas de pensamiento sociológico en esta tarea. Luego de examinar las limitaciones de la economía como marco principal para pensar alternativas deseables, se propone la necesidad de desarrollar una implicación más activa de las ciencias sociales, en particular de la sociología, en la tarea de pensar alternativas de futuro, esfuerzo conectado con una larga tradición de pensamiento sociológico. En segundo lugar, se identifican y describen dos modalidades principales a partir de las cuales la sociología ha abordado alternativas de futuro deseables, examinando sus posibilidades y límites. Una primera modalidad, de carácter principalmente discursivo, se ha centrado en la creación de discursos epocales de transformación social anclados en diagnósticos y propuestas normativas de futuro. Denominamos a esta primera versión modalidades declarativas de futuro. Una segunda modalidad, de carácter empírico y situado, se ha concentrado en estudiar formas de experimentación colectiva que encarnan empíricamente alternativas de futuro y/o en desarrollar metodologías para este fin. Denominamos a esta segunda versión, modalidades prefigurativas de futuro. En tercer lugar, y en base al análisis previo el articulo propone tres caminos como ejes para potenciar una sociología de las alternativas: abordar el problema de la escala, en particular la tensión entre lo universal y lo múltiple en las propuestas de futuro; la relación entre estas propuestas y el mundo de las instituciones, en particular su relación con el estado; y, el rol central de las infraestructuras como medios para encarnar y movilizar alternativas de futuro deseable. Palabras claves. FUTUROS, SOCIOLOGÍA DE LAS ALTERNATIVAS, TEORÍA SOCIAL, CRISIS SOCIAL Y AMBIENTAL.
Abstract. This article offers a theoretical reflection on how sociology and other related social sciences can contribute to imagine and mobilize desirable alternative futures. The argument is organized as follows. Firstly, I explore the relationship between social sciences and the tasks of imagining and designing alternatives futures. We highlight the actual predominance of economics and the invisibility of other forms of social as critical tools for thinking desirable futures. After highlighting of economic thinking for proposing alternatives futures, we argue that a more active involvement of social sciences, particularly sociology, is needed. By engaging in this task, sociology is also connecting to a long tradition of sociological thought about alternatives. In the second part of the paper, we identify two modalities from which sociology has approached the problem of alternative futures. We do so by examining their possibilities and limits. A first modality focus on the production of epochal discourses of social change and often combines a sociological diagnosis with a set of normative frameworks that define a desirable future. We call this first version declarative modalities of the future. A second modality has focus mainly on studying empirical forms of collective experimentation that embody alternatives for the future and/or on developing methodologies for fostering concrete alternatives. We label this second version pre-figurative modalities of the future. In the last part of the paper, and based on the previous analysis, we proposes three critical paths to further encourage a sociology of alternatives, namely: addressing the problem of scale, in particular the tension between the universal and the multiple as constitute elements of any proposed alternative; second, considering the world of institutions, the state in particular, as critical spaces trough which alternatives can be materialized, and third, the central role of infrastructures as a tools to embody and mobilize alternatives for a desirable futures. Keywords. FUTURES, SOCIOLOGY OF ALTERNATIVES, SOCIAL THEORY, ENVIRONMENTAL AND SOCIAL CRISIS.
While there has been an increasing interest in exploring the features and possibilities of off-gr... more While there has been an increasing interest in exploring the features and possibilities of off-grid photovoltaic projects, less attention has been given to the infrastructural and sociomaterial arrangements through which these types of bottom-up energy projects are organized. Following a long-term scholarly interest in energy infrastructures and their role in enabling material forms of politics, this article analyses how different of the processes of designing, installing, and using photovoltaic energy infrastructures co-produces different forms of energy ecologies and specific forms of local energy publics. In doing so, we seek to advance an empirical and theoretical understanding of the links between off-grid energy infrastructures and the politics and governances of such type of low carbon transitions. The argument is empirically unfolded by unpacking the installation and early operation of two recent off-grid photovoltaic (PV) energy projects in rural areas in Chile. We focus on describing how the design, installation, and use of these infrastructures involves producing specific energy ecologies as well as the organization of local energy publics. In this sense, we suggest that by attending to these processes, we might help to unveil the different kinds of material politics taking place in off-grid PV projects. We focus on the potentially higher forms of plasticity ingrained in these types of off-grid energy infrastructures, which result in varied forms of materializing energy use and in distributing the agencies of the different actors involved.
This article focusses on describing the different domestic and non-domestic practices and infrast... more This article focusses on describing the different domestic and non-domestic practices and infrastructures through which heating is organized in domestic settings. Based on recent scholar work interested on researching the interlinks between domestic heating use and non-domestic energy practices and infrastructures, it proposes to understand domestic heating as the practical outcome of existing heating ecologies defined as the dynamic interrelations of in-home and out-home heating infrastructures and practices. The argument is empirically unfolded with material from a 6-month ethnographic fieldwork of a heater replacement policy program in central and southern Chile. Relying on participant observation and follow up interviews, we describe the installation phase and establishment of new less polluting heaters, as well as how the installation of those new heaters problematizes and redefine preexisting heating ecologies comprising domestic and non-domestic practices and infrastructures linked to firewood heating. We focused on two specific aspects of this change which proved to be particularly relevant in terms of the adoption of the new heaters. Firstly, the change in the infrastructures and practices of fuel provision and, second, the change in the infrastructures and practices of maintenance and repair. We finish suggesting that further understand heating ecologies —their dynamic and change— could be a critical element in explaining the success or failure of low carbon domestic technological transitions and policy intervention.
El presente artículo presenta una visión panorámica de los estudios sociales de la energía a la v... more El presente artículo presenta una visión panorámica de los estudios sociales de la energía a la vez que introduce los artículos del monográfico. Se comienzan presentando las razones que explican la progresiva visibilidad de las temáticas energéticas en la sociología, aludiendo al desafío que impone el cambio climático y la creciente atención de las ciencias sociales hacia la dimensión material de la vida social. Se propone entender la energía como un objeto de estudio de carácter esencialmente socio técnico, esto es, como un fenómeno que exige una aproximación que dé cuenta de los aspectos materiales, técnicos, sociales y culturales que lo constituyen. El artículo presenta luego diferentes áreas de investigación relevantes para el debate sociológico sobre la intersección entre energía y sociedad y su relación con las contribuciones al monográfico. Los estudios que se presentan no sólo tienen interés para la comunidad académica del área de la sociología, sino que pueden ser utilidad para profesionales de la energía e investigadores de otras disciplinas interesados en abordar los aspectos sociales de la energía.
This paper aims to reflect on some key issues linked to the production of digital objects in busi... more This paper aims to reflect on some key issues linked to the production of digital objects in business settings. In doing so, it problematizes current social science scholarship, which emphasizes the analysis of digital data and analytics, reinforces the magnitude of its consequences and “data power”. The paper proposes making three corrective “movements” that might enrich our approaches to how databases and analytics are assembled in business settings. The first movement involves the problem of ethnographic access to data-making practices. We propose taking seriously the issue of fabricating an ethnographic encounter where the process of making digital objects is exposed. The second movement concerns the visibility and the type of politics taking place in data practices. We argue for the need to displace attention from data impacts and results to the myriad of mundane practices and devices through which these objects are assembled. The third movement we suggest requires a focus on examining error and failure as key aspects of the manufacturing of consumer databases. Each of these movements is illustrated by ethnographic vignettes from a 9-month ethnographic experiment which involved participating in the first stages of the manufacturing of an online financial retail company's consumer database.
Este artículo presenta una visión crítica de la Teoría de las Prácticas Sociales (TPS), etiqueta ... more Este artículo presenta una visión crítica de la Teoría de las Prácticas Sociales (TPS), etiqueta con el cual se agrupan aquellas teorías que definen las prácticas como el componente fundamental del mundo social. El articulo discute y presenta de modo sintético un conjunto de trabajos teóricos recientes asociados a esta teoría. A su vez, evalúa críticamente algunas de las posibilidades y limitaciones de la TPS. El articulo está organizado de la siguiente forma. En primer lugar, se discute algunos de los antecedentes teóricos y filosóficos de la TPS. Seguidamente se discute el concepto de practica y sus componentes y la compresión de las dinámicas de cambio que presenta esta teoría. Finalmente se ilustra la discusión anterior presentando las aplicaciones de esta teoría en el ámbito de la sociología del medioambiente y el consumo sustentable. El articulo termina discutiendo críticamente algunas de las debilidades y limitaciones de esta aproximación teórica.
Mainstream conceptualizations of ‘ethical consumption’ equate the notion with conscious, individu... more Mainstream conceptualizations of ‘ethical consumption’ equate the notion with conscious, individual, market-mediated choices motivated by ethical or political aims that transcend ordinary concerns. Drawing on data from 32 focus groups conducted in Chile and Brazil on ethical consumption, this article discusses some of the limitations of this conceptualization. First, linking the findings to recent sociology and anthropology of consumption literature, we suggest that this conceptualization fails to capture how ethics and consumption are linked in everyday life. Second, we argue that a largest part of ‘ethical outcomes’ (as defined by ethical consumption movements) in these countries are in fact results of practices following ordinary ethical concerns, which are incompatible with the basic tenets of the standard definition of ethical consumption. Therefore the article proposes a conceptualization of ethical consumption that does not centre on individual, market-mediated choices but understands ethical consumption at the level of practical outcomes, which we will refer to different types of ‘ethical living’. We illustrate these points by describing one particular ordinary moral regime that seemed to be predominant in participants’ account of ethics and consumption in both countries: one that links consumption and ethics through care. We describe how, while leading to ‘ethical outcomes’, such as energy saving or limiting overconsumption, these consumption ethics seldom rely on the mainstream view of ethical consumption as related to a politicized choice expressed through markets. Instead, they produce ‘ethical outcomes’ through following ordinary ethics and combatting, rather than embracing individual, market-mediated choices. In this context, we argue, ‘ethical consumption’ as a discourse might be inadvertently contributing to the erosion of practices leading to ‘ethical outcomes’, through reinforcing the discourse of market-based, individual choice.
En el marco de un creciente interés de la sociología del medioambiente y la energía por estudiar ... more En el marco de un creciente interés de la sociología del medioambiente y la energía por estudiar los procesos de transición hacia sistemas energéticos pro ambientales, este artículo presenta los principales hallazgos empíricos de un estudio de caso que aborda cualitativamente una política de recambio de estufas en la ciudad de Temuco, Chile. El articulo utiliza dos enfoques teóricos complementarios, la Multilevel perspective (MLP) y la Teoría de las Prácticas Sociales (TPS) para describir la existencia de mecanismos de bloqueo a los procesos de transición sostenible, tanto a nivel institucional como a nivel de las practicas asociadas al uso de las estufas. El artículo se basa en 23 entrevistas semiestructuradas a actores claves del proceso de recambio y 23 ejercicios de observación participante orientadas a describir las prácticas de calefacción de los hogares de Temuco. Las lecciones aprendidas en este artículo, refuerzan la tesis promovida por otros autores quienes sugieren que los conceptos abordados desde una sola perspectiva teórica raramente nos proveen del conocimiento profundo acerca de las interacciones humano-energía necesario para desarrollar una transición hacia sistemas energéticos pro ambientales.
ABSTRACT.
By using two sociological theoretical approaches, the Multilevel Perspective (MLP) and the Social Practices Theory (TPS), this paper examines a concrete a wood-burning stoves replacement policy in the city of Temuco. This is done by relying on 23 interviews with key actors and 23 participant observation exercise aimed at describing the heating practices of Temuco households. The article describes four lock-in mechanisms that might posit difficulties in terms of fostering a transition into more environmentally friendly heating practices and technologies. In line with previous scholar work by suggesting that in order to facilitate a transition towards pro-environmental energy systems, more interaction and dialogue between different sociological approaches to human-energy interaction is needed.
Abstract: Social studies of finance can be split in two types: studies that have paid attention t... more Abstract: Social studies of finance can be split in two types: studies that have paid attention to “market devices” (such as scorings and credit cards) enacted by financial firms and studies that analyze new practices and modes of “ordinary calculation” developed by consumers of financial services around the world. This article is part of a broader project that aims at opening a different path that locates social studies of domestic finances at the intersection where both kinds of calculation – the big data of market devices and the small data of ordinary financial practices- can be simultaneously observed. More specifically, this article discusses some of the methodological challenges faced from this new position, particularly, how we used some of the traces left by big data and how we dealt with an surprising “commercial circuit” founded in our material.
This chapter focuses on exploring the different knowledge practices and devices mobilized during ... more This chapter focuses on exploring the different knowledge practices and devices mobilized during the production of creative concepts in advertising campaigns. More concretely, I examine a particular device of creative work, namely “references” -usually images, videos, advertisements, web pages or other entities used in creative processes. In doing so, I describe advertising references as a particular type of inscription device used to make visible, and mobilize, the qualities of creative ideas. Furthermore, I propose understanding references as a particular valuation device through which creative worth is assessed and mobilized in advertising processes.
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Agradecimientos,............................................................................. more Índice Agradecimientos,..................................................................................................... 9 Introducción, Los estudios sociales de la energía, por Tomás Ariztía y Sebastián Ureta............................................................11 Sección i políticas 1. Desbordes en Río Puelo: problematizando el giro participativo de la política energética en Chile, por Sebastián Ureta............................................................................................45 2. Economizando la justicia: convirtiendo demandas por equidad en tarifas energéticas asequibles, por Carla Alvial y Sebastián Ureta..............................................................76 3. ¿Mirar atrás para avanzar?: la interacción entre los futuros a largo plazo y las expectativas políticas en las transiciones en sustentabilidad, por Carla Alvial-Palavicino y José Opazo-Bunster ...............................99 4. Ecologías del calor: una sociología del combustible y la mantención de las estufas domésticas, por Tomas Ariztía, Francisca Fonseca y Oriana Bernasconi............126 Sección ii infraestructuras 5. Cuando los dispositivos sociotécnicos de la hidroenergía colonizan el agua de las comunidades: ¿controversias comunidades energéticas?, por Francisca Fonseca, Carla Cepeda y Fernando Campos.............157 6. Territorio y energías renovables no convencionales: aprendizajes para la construcción de política pública a partir del caso de Rukatayo Alto, por Maite Hernando y Gustavo Blanco ...................................................183
7. La política material de la energía solar: usos y públicos de las infraestructuras eléctricas en Chile, por Tomas Ariztia y Felipe Raglianti .........................................................210 8. Los usuarios y las cosas: el papel de los objetos y sus usos en la -fallida- implementación de una ‘red inteligente’, por Mónica Humeres.......................................................................................237 Sección iii intervenciones 9. Comunidades energéticas en la Patagonia: tan lejos y tan cerca del extractivismo, por Gloria Baigorrotegui.................................................................................261 10. Hipo-intervenciones: activismo íntimo en medioambientes tóxicos, por Manuel Tironi.............................................................................................291 11. Sequías extractivistas: el resistir hidrosocial indígena en Quillagua, Chile, por Valentina Acuña y Manuel Tironi......................................................312 Sección iv repensando las transiciones 12. Tecnologías sustentables y género. Primera aproximación a casos de las comunas de Ancud, Quellón, Quemchi y Castro en la Provincia de Chiloé, por Jorgelina Sannazzaro y Paloma Gajardo Bustamante................351 13. La vida social de la energía: hacia el estudio territorializado de las transiciones energéticas, por Gustavo Blanco ..........................................................................................376 Reseñas biográficas............................................................................................401
En este dossier buscamos visibilizar algunos de los trabajos y reflexiones que resultaron del des... more En este dossier buscamos visibilizar algunos de los trabajos y reflexiones que resultaron del desarrollo de tesis de pregrado y posgrado al alero del Núcleo Milenio en Energía y Sociedad. Concretamente, presentamos resúmenes extendidos de 10 tesis adscritas al centro. Con esta publicación buscamos dar cuenta de la riqueza y diversidad del trabajo de investigación realizada en el centro, poniendo a disposición pública diversas reflexiones y hallazgos que profundizan la comprensión de los aspectos sociales y normativos de las transiciones en curso.
INDICE Y AUTORES DEL DOSSIER.
Presentación del Dossier. Aline Bravo y Tomas Ariztia.
1. Políticas de la energía.
- Usuario Modelo: un análisis sociotécnico del lugar de los usuarios en las políticas de la infraestructura eléctrica en Chile (1935-2019). Mónica Humeres
- Revisión del concepto de pobreza energética en Chile. Hacia la construcción de una definición culturalmente pertinente desde la democratización, gobernanza y soberanía energética. Paula Herrera
- Recuperación de narrativas de poder en torno a los cuidados para la mantención y reparación de Redes de Monitoreo Ambiental en la ciudad de Coyhaique, Chile. Gabriel Reyes.
- Análisis de experiencias de educación universitaria para una transición justa hacia la sustentabilidad. Pablo Aránguiz
2. Infraestructuras y valoraciones.
- Revenue Stacking para baterías detrás del medidor en el mercado eléctrico chileno: barreras y evaluación económica. Joaquín Fernández Haussmann.
- Prácticas sociomateriales de valorización y revalorización de desechos electrónicos: Un estudio comparado en la ciudad de Santiago de Chile. Maximiliano Sebastián Baron y Mauricio Fernando Fortín
- Modalidades de valorización económica en los vínculos entre comunidades mapuche y energías renovables no convencionales. - Comparando proyectos ERNC mercantiles y sus alternativas en el Biobío y La Araucanía. Yerko García
3. Extractivismo y territorios de la energía
- Reexistencias frente al Extractivismo y el Despojo en el Salar de Atacama. Ramón Balcázar
- Caracterización y conceptualización de la estabilidad e inestabilidad de los paisajes energéticos del carbón: El caso de Coronel. Claudia Fuentes.
- El litio como desafío geopolítico en la transición energética global. El caso del triángulo de litio. Catalina Solar
This thesis studies how middle-class cultures are assembled in contemporary Chile, by looking at ... more This thesis studies how middle-class cultures are assembled in contemporary Chile, by looking at a group of lower-middle-class families who move to new houses in the suburbs, focusing in particular on the role of home and home possessions, place of residence and housing markets in the production of people's social and spatial positions. Class is broadly understood here as a process that happens within people's experience. It is understood, thus, more as an outcome of actors' production than as a pre-existing category. By taking this standpoint, this thesis draws on a rather heterogeneous set of theoretical frameworks for exploring the different set of mediations -places, discourses and materialities-that assemble the ordinary experience of class.
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Palabras claves.
FUTUROS, SOCIOLOGÍA DE LAS ALTERNATIVAS, TEORÍA SOCIAL, CRISIS SOCIAL Y AMBIENTAL.
Abstract.
This article offers a theoretical reflection on how sociology and other related social sciences can contribute to imagine and mobilize desirable alternative futures. The argument is organized as follows. Firstly, I explore the relationship between social sciences and the tasks of imagining and designing alternatives futures. We highlight the actual predominance of economics and the invisibility of other forms of social as critical tools for thinking desirable futures. After highlighting of economic thinking for proposing alternatives futures, we argue that a more active involvement of social sciences, particularly sociology, is needed. By engaging in this task, sociology is also connecting to a long tradition of sociological thought about alternatives. In the second part of the paper, we identify two modalities from which sociology has approached the problem of alternative futures. We do so by examining their possibilities and limits. A first modality focus on the production of epochal discourses of social change and often combines a sociological diagnosis with a set of normative frameworks that define a desirable future. We call this first version declarative modalities of the future. A second modality has focus mainly on studying empirical forms of collective experimentation that embody alternatives for the future and/or on developing methodologies for fostering concrete alternatives. We label this second version pre-figurative modalities of the future. In the last part of the paper, and based on the previous analysis, we proposes three critical paths to further encourage a sociology of alternatives, namely: addressing the problem of scale, in particular the tension between the universal and the multiple as constitute elements of any proposed alternative; second, considering the world of institutions, the state in particular, as critical spaces trough which alternatives can be materialized, and third, the central role of infrastructures as a tools to embody and mobilize alternatives for a desirable futures.
Keywords.
FUTURES, SOCIOLOGY OF ALTERNATIVES, SOCIAL THEORY, ENVIRONMENTAL AND SOCIAL CRISIS.
ABSTRACT.
By using two sociological theoretical approaches, the Multilevel Perspective (MLP) and the Social Practices Theory (TPS), this paper examines a concrete a wood-burning stoves replacement policy in the city of Temuco. This is done by relying on 23 interviews with key actors and 23 participant observation exercise aimed at describing the heating practices of Temuco households. The article describes four lock-in mechanisms that might posit difficulties in terms of fostering a transition into more environmentally friendly heating practices and technologies. In line with previous scholar work by suggesting that in order to facilitate a transition towards pro-environmental energy systems, more interaction and dialogue between different sociological approaches to human-energy interaction is needed.
domestic finances at the intersection where both kinds of calculation – the big data of market devices and the small data of ordinary financial practices- can be simultaneously observed. More specifically, this article discusses some of the methodological challenges faced from this new position, particularly, how we used some of the traces left by big data and how we dealt with an surprising “commercial circuit” founded in our material.
Palabras claves.
FUTUROS, SOCIOLOGÍA DE LAS ALTERNATIVAS, TEORÍA SOCIAL, CRISIS SOCIAL Y AMBIENTAL.
Abstract.
This article offers a theoretical reflection on how sociology and other related social sciences can contribute to imagine and mobilize desirable alternative futures. The argument is organized as follows. Firstly, I explore the relationship between social sciences and the tasks of imagining and designing alternatives futures. We highlight the actual predominance of economics and the invisibility of other forms of social as critical tools for thinking desirable futures. After highlighting of economic thinking for proposing alternatives futures, we argue that a more active involvement of social sciences, particularly sociology, is needed. By engaging in this task, sociology is also connecting to a long tradition of sociological thought about alternatives. In the second part of the paper, we identify two modalities from which sociology has approached the problem of alternative futures. We do so by examining their possibilities and limits. A first modality focus on the production of epochal discourses of social change and often combines a sociological diagnosis with a set of normative frameworks that define a desirable future. We call this first version declarative modalities of the future. A second modality has focus mainly on studying empirical forms of collective experimentation that embody alternatives for the future and/or on developing methodologies for fostering concrete alternatives. We label this second version pre-figurative modalities of the future. In the last part of the paper, and based on the previous analysis, we proposes three critical paths to further encourage a sociology of alternatives, namely: addressing the problem of scale, in particular the tension between the universal and the multiple as constitute elements of any proposed alternative; second, considering the world of institutions, the state in particular, as critical spaces trough which alternatives can be materialized, and third, the central role of infrastructures as a tools to embody and mobilize alternatives for a desirable futures.
Keywords.
FUTURES, SOCIOLOGY OF ALTERNATIVES, SOCIAL THEORY, ENVIRONMENTAL AND SOCIAL CRISIS.
ABSTRACT.
By using two sociological theoretical approaches, the Multilevel Perspective (MLP) and the Social Practices Theory (TPS), this paper examines a concrete a wood-burning stoves replacement policy in the city of Temuco. This is done by relying on 23 interviews with key actors and 23 participant observation exercise aimed at describing the heating practices of Temuco households. The article describes four lock-in mechanisms that might posit difficulties in terms of fostering a transition into more environmentally friendly heating practices and technologies. In line with previous scholar work by suggesting that in order to facilitate a transition towards pro-environmental energy systems, more interaction and dialogue between different sociological approaches to human-energy interaction is needed.
domestic finances at the intersection where both kinds of calculation – the big data of market devices and the small data of ordinary financial practices- can be simultaneously observed. More specifically, this article discusses some of the methodological challenges faced from this new position, particularly, how we used some of the traces left by big data and how we dealt with an surprising “commercial circuit” founded in our material.
Agradecimientos,..................................................................................................... 9 Introducción,
Los estudios sociales de la energía,
por Tomás Ariztía y Sebastián Ureta............................................................11
Sección i políticas
1. Desbordes en Río Puelo: problematizando el giro
participativo de la política energética en Chile,
por Sebastián Ureta............................................................................................45
2. Economizando la justicia: convirtiendo demandas
por equidad en tarifas energéticas asequibles,
por Carla Alvial y Sebastián Ureta..............................................................76
3. ¿Mirar atrás para avanzar?: la interacción entre los futuros
a largo plazo y las expectativas políticas en las transiciones
en sustentabilidad,
por Carla Alvial-Palavicino y José Opazo-Bunster ...............................99
4. Ecologías del calor: una sociología del combustible
y la mantención de las estufas domésticas,
por Tomas Ariztía, Francisca Fonseca y Oriana Bernasconi............126
Sección ii infraestructuras
5. Cuando los dispositivos sociotécnicos de la hidroenergía
colonizan el agua de las comunidades: ¿controversias comunidades energéticas?,
por Francisca Fonseca, Carla Cepeda y Fernando Campos.............157
6. Territorio y energías renovables no convencionales:
aprendizajes para la construcción de política pública
a partir del caso de Rukatayo Alto,
por Maite Hernando y Gustavo Blanco ...................................................183
7. La política material de la energía solar: usos y públicos
de las infraestructuras eléctricas en Chile,
por Tomas Ariztia y Felipe Raglianti .........................................................210
8. Los usuarios y las cosas: el papel de los objetos y sus usos
en la -fallida- implementación de una ‘red inteligente’,
por Mónica Humeres.......................................................................................237
Sección iii intervenciones
9. Comunidades energéticas en la Patagonia: tan lejos
y tan cerca del extractivismo,
por Gloria Baigorrotegui.................................................................................261
10. Hipo-intervenciones: activismo íntimo en
medioambientes tóxicos,
por Manuel Tironi.............................................................................................291
11. Sequías extractivistas: el resistir hidrosocial indígena
en Quillagua, Chile,
por Valentina Acuña y Manuel Tironi......................................................312
Sección iv repensando las transiciones
12. Tecnologías sustentables y género. Primera aproximación
a casos de las comunas de Ancud, Quellón, Quemchi y
Castro en la Provincia de Chiloé,
por Jorgelina Sannazzaro y Paloma Gajardo Bustamante................351
13. La vida social de la energía: hacia el estudio
territorializado de las transiciones energéticas,
por Gustavo Blanco ..........................................................................................376
Reseñas biográficas............................................................................................401
INDICE Y AUTORES DEL DOSSIER.
Presentación del Dossier. Aline Bravo y Tomas Ariztia.
1. Políticas de la energía.
- Usuario Modelo: un análisis sociotécnico del lugar de los usuarios en las políticas de la infraestructura eléctrica en Chile (1935-2019). Mónica Humeres
- Revisión del concepto de pobreza energética en Chile. Hacia la construcción de una definición culturalmente pertinente desde la democratización, gobernanza y soberanía energética. Paula Herrera
- Recuperación de narrativas de poder en torno a los cuidados para la mantención y reparación de Redes de Monitoreo Ambiental en la ciudad de Coyhaique, Chile. Gabriel Reyes.
- Análisis de experiencias de educación universitaria para una transición justa hacia la sustentabilidad. Pablo Aránguiz
2. Infraestructuras y valoraciones.
- Revenue Stacking para baterías detrás del medidor en el mercado eléctrico chileno: barreras y evaluación económica. Joaquín Fernández Haussmann.
- Prácticas sociomateriales de valorización y revalorización de desechos electrónicos: Un estudio comparado en la ciudad de Santiago de Chile. Maximiliano Sebastián Baron y Mauricio Fernando Fortín
- Modalidades de valorización económica en los vínculos entre comunidades mapuche y energías renovables no convencionales. - Comparando proyectos ERNC mercantiles y sus alternativas en el Biobío y La Araucanía. Yerko García
3. Extractivismo y territorios de la energía
- Reexistencias frente al Extractivismo y el Despojo en el Salar de Atacama. Ramón Balcázar
- Caracterización y conceptualización de la estabilidad e inestabilidad de los paisajes energéticos del carbón: El caso de Coronel. Claudia Fuentes.
- El litio como desafío geopolítico en la transición energética global. El caso del triángulo de litio. Catalina Solar