scholarly journals Sacrifice zones and the construction of urban energy landscapes in Concepción, Chile

2020 ◽  
Vol 27 (1) ◽  
pp. 279-299
Author(s):  
Vanesa Castán Broto ◽  
Martín Sanzana Calvet
Keyword(s):  
Energy Production ◽  
Qualitative Interviews ◽  
Metropolitan Region ◽  
Economic Power ◽  
Energy Landscapes ◽  
Energy Infrastructure ◽  
Spatial Inequalities ◽  
Energy Governance ◽  
Urban Energy ◽  
Industrial Landscapes

This article examines how national energy policies in Chile constitute urban energy landscapes characterized by environmental and spatial inequalities. The concept of urban energy landscapes is deployed to explain the spatial patterns resulting from energy governance and energy conflicts in the metropolitan area of Concepción, a metropolitan region of strategic importance in the configuration of national energy policy. These urban energy landscapes result from the constitution of 'sacrifice zones' that reflect an extractivist model of energy production. The combination of qualitative interviews and transect walks reveals different aspects of a dual arrangement of energy infrastructure and urbanization. The city's fragmented landscapes emerge from the coexistence of energy infrastructure and associated industries, with daily activities of communities that have little to do with these industries but live in their shadow. Conflicts in these urban energy landscapes are intense, with every inch of space contested by competing modes of 'being urban.' The urban energy landscape in Concepción is an expression of a clash of social and economic power with local priorities.Keywords: urban energy landscapes, industrial landscapes, sacrifice zones, energy conflicts, coal energy, Chile

Data Echoes: Sound, Evidence, and Acoustic Methods in Energy Landscapes

2021 ◽  
pp. 016224392110345
Author(s):  
James Maguire
Keyword(s):  
Geothermal Energy ◽  
Energy Production ◽  
Model Building ◽  
Acoustic Method ◽  
Time Frame ◽  
Energy Landscapes ◽  
Geological Evidence ◽  
Temporal Form ◽  
Acoustic Methods ◽  
Intractable Problem

This paper explores an informal acoustic method developed by a group of industrial geologists working in geothermal energy landscapes in the southwest of Iceland. Through a series of ethnographic descriptions, this paper renders the work these geologists carry out in sonic terms, emphasizing how they use their bodies as sonic detectors in the production of geological evidence. Sound, the paper argues, is what allows geologists to make the intractable problem of volcanic cooling doable. It does this by differentiating two forms of evidence. Primary evidence, which ends up as data in geological reports, and secondary sonic evidence, which is what establishes that this primary evidence is, in fact, evidence. The paper introduces the concept data echoes as a way to think about how sound articulates between these evidential protocols. As echo, sound works as an outside, which, while remaining external to official protocols of knowledge production, nevertheless helps to constitute distinctions that are meaningful to the production of those categories. As data echoes through the various moments of data capture, analysis, and model building, sound’s temporal form helps to predict the time frame of volcanic cooling, as it affects both the immediate energy production scenarios and the long durée of volcanic time.

Book review: Urban Energy Landscapes

Urban Studies ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 57 (12) ◽  
pp. 2585-2588
Author(s):  
Madlen Kobi
Keyword(s):  
Energy Landscapes ◽  
Urban Energy

Mobile but Stuck: Multigenerational Neighborhood Decline and Housing Search Strategies for African Americans

2018 ◽  
Vol 17 (3) ◽  
pp. 835-857 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nora E. Taplin–Kaguru
Keyword(s):  
African American ◽  
African Americans ◽  
Racial Inequality ◽  
Qualitative Interviews ◽  
Search Strategies ◽  
Metropolitan Region ◽  
Middle Income ◽  
Racial Residential Segregation ◽  
Housing Search ◽  
Racial Demographics

While many scholars have demonstrated that entrenched racial residential segregation perpetuates racial inequality, the causes of persistent racial segregation continue to be debated. This paper investigates how geographically and socioeconomically mobile African Americans approach the home–buying process in the context of a segregated metropolitan region, by using qualitative interviews with working–class to middle–income African American aspiring homebuyers. Homebuyers use three principal search strategies to determine suitable neighborhoods: avoiding decline, searching for improvement, and searching for stability. The findings suggest that despite these strategies African American homebuyers end up in areas that may not retain characteristics they desire in terms of racial demographics and amenities, in large part because such neighborhoods remain rare.

scholarly journals OpenStreetMap data in modelling the urban energy infrastructure: a first assessment and analysis

2017 ◽  
Vol 142 ◽  
pp. 1968-1976 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alaa Alhamwi ◽  
Wided Medjroubi ◽  
Thomas Vogt ◽  
Carsten Agert
Keyword(s):  
Energy Infrastructure ◽  
Urban Energy
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