Narrativas de transición energética. Un análisis desde la epistemología del Sur

Abstract

This research to looks into the current literature on Energy Transition (ET) to explore the connection between its narratives and the epistemology of the Global South. In recent decades, different actors have promoted the need for an ET with diverse objectives, beneficiaries, and affected parties. These narratives have become local, regional and global policy agendas. Those with the highest capacity to articulate power networks generate an epistemological framework in order to justify new mechanisms of neocolonization in the Global South, which in turn enable the expansion of extractive frontiers and new sacrifice territories, such as Ecuador, with the exploitation of balsa wood; Bolivia, Chile and Argentina, with lithium; and others, with green hydrogen and unconventional gas. Thus, this article describes the relationship between corporate ET and its underpinning assumption that there are no alternatives to the market; and between popular ET and the ecology of knowledge, which promotes the existence of other alternatives to capitalist development.