ABSTRACT

This article examines the struggle against the new Électricité de France (EDF) wind park, Gunaa Sicarú, in Unión Hidalgo (UH), Mexico. Foregrounding Indigenous land defense, the article refers to wind energy as ‘wind factories’ to discuss agrarian change in the region. Revealing the counterinsurgency colonial model as a foundational approach to extractive development, the article argues that the distribution of money, Sicarios (hitmen) and non-governmental organizations (NGOs) are instrumental to engineering ‘social acceptance’. Moreover, the liberalism underlining NGOs, if not careful, advances processes of infrastructural colonization and, consequently, wider trajectories of (neo)colonialism.

摘要

本文探讨了与位于墨西哥 Unión Hidalgo (UH) 的新法国电力公司 (EDF) 风电场 Gunaa Sicarú 的斗争。文章以土著土地防御为前景，将风能称为“风力工厂”，以讨论该地区的农业变化。该文章揭示了平叛殖民模式作为采掘发展的基本方法，并认为金钱、Sicarios（杀手）和非政府组织（NGO）的分配有助于设计“社会接受度”。此外，强调非政府组织的自由主义，如果不小心的话，会推进基础设施殖民化进程，从而推动（新）殖民主义的更广泛轨迹。