Lugares amados, lugares sombra: éticas y estéticas en tiempos de transición
Cañaverales, a community in southern La Guajira (Colombia), is at risk of becoming a shadow place, much like other villages that have vanished due to open-pit coal mining. These towns, disconnected from the national energy grid, have maintained close relationships with natural energy sources—such as...
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| author | María Cecilia Roa García Alejandro Quecedo del Val Nils Lagrève Ana Manuela Amaya Morales |
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| description | Cañaverales, a community in southern La Guajira (Colombia), is at risk of becoming a shadow place, much like other villages that have vanished due to open-pit coal mining. These towns, disconnected from the national energy grid, have maintained close relationships with natural energy sources—such as the sun, wind, water, and food—despite the lifestyle changes brought by the use of fossil fuels. These connections, however, are steadily eroded by the encroachment of modernity. The disappearance of these traditional energy practices is a profound paradox: at a moment when the urgency to cease burning fossil fuels is clearer than ever, coal mining erases age-old energy practices that have thrived in simplicity, small scale, and ethical harmony with the land. This article explores this paradox through the lens of beloved places and shadow places. Cañaverales represents thousands of communities across the Global South that have sustained relationships of care, awe, reciprocity, and attunement with their territories—what we call beloved places. These communities resist being reduced to mere suppliers of renewable or fossil energy for distant regions, becoming instead shadow places. The extraction of coal from Cañaverales symbolizes the erasure and forced disappearance of these deep-rooted relationships with energy, transforming their ethics and aesthetics into memory and haunting specters of what once was. |
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| spelling | doaj-art-4b0a01659d76400b9e1991628d961d862025-01-29T15:07:43ZengUniversidad de los AndesRevista de Estudios Sociales0123-885X1900-51802025-01-0191819810.7440/res91.2025.05Lugares amados, lugares sombra: éticas y estéticas en tiempos de transiciónMaría Cecilia Roa García 0https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4229-6079Alejandro Quecedo del Val1https://orcid.org/0009-0000-0541-2766Nils Lagrève2https://orcid.org/0009-0002-4459-1204Ana Manuela Amaya Morales3https://orcid.org/0009-0007-3961-4439Universidad de los Andes, ColombiaSciences Po Paris, FranciaSciences Po Paris, FranciaUniversidad de los Andes, ColombiaCañaverales, a community in southern La Guajira (Colombia), is at risk of becoming a shadow place, much like other villages that have vanished due to open-pit coal mining. These towns, disconnected from the national energy grid, have maintained close relationships with natural energy sources—such as the sun, wind, water, and food—despite the lifestyle changes brought by the use of fossil fuels. These connections, however, are steadily eroded by the encroachment of modernity. The disappearance of these traditional energy practices is a profound paradox: at a moment when the urgency to cease burning fossil fuels is clearer than ever, coal mining erases age-old energy practices that have thrived in simplicity, small scale, and ethical harmony with the land. This article explores this paradox through the lens of beloved places and shadow places. Cañaverales represents thousands of communities across the Global South that have sustained relationships of care, awe, reciprocity, and attunement with their territories—what we call beloved places. These communities resist being reduced to mere suppliers of renewable or fossil energy for distant regions, becoming instead shadow places. The extraction of coal from Cañaverales symbolizes the erasure and forced disappearance of these deep-rooted relationships with energy, transforming their ethics and aesthetics into memory and haunting specters of what once was.https://revistas.uniandes.edu.co/index.php/res/article/view/9489/10488beloved placecañaveralesdistribution of the sensibleenergy transitionextractivismshadow place |
| spellingShingle | María Cecilia Roa García Alejandro Quecedo del Val Nils Lagrève Ana Manuela Amaya Morales Lugares amados, lugares sombra: éticas y estéticas en tiempos de transición Revista de Estudios Sociales beloved place cañaverales distribution of the sensible energy transition extractivism shadow place |
| title | Lugares amados, lugares sombra: éticas y estéticas en tiempos de transición |
| title_full | Lugares amados, lugares sombra: éticas y estéticas en tiempos de transición |
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| url | https://revistas.uniandes.edu.co/index.php/res/article/view/9489/10488 |
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