This article examines the circulation of gifts that binds dozens of indigenous Wayúu communities and Jemeiwaa Kai, a wind energy corporation that intends to build five wind farms in Colombia's coastal region of La Guajira. Drawing on long‐term fieldwork, I analyze how the intimate, reciprocal, and meaningful social exchanges that take place as part of the gift‐giving practices between Jemeiwaa Kai and Wayúu residents are critical for the renewability of wind energy itself, as they create and maintain the conditions for harnessing this resource without interruption. Since these exchanges acknowledge the power of Wayúu communities hosting future wind farms to disrupt their operations and infrastructures, they enable recipients to carve out a space of accountability by entangling the corporation in long‐term relationships of obligation and negotiating the ethical ways of harnessing wind in Wayúu land. The centrality of gift giving highlights that extraction, as a concept for theorizing wind energy in La Guajira, falls short of fully making sense of the variegated interactions, ethical predicaments, and forms of value production that take place on the ground, between those who have lived alongside the wind for centuries and the outsiders who now aspire to harness its force.

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抽风？哥伦比亚能源前沿的礼物，互惠和可再生性

本文研究了绑定数十个土著Wayúu社区和风能公司Jemeiwaa Kai的礼物的流通情况，该公司打算在哥伦比亚拉瓜吉拉沿海地区建立五个风电场。利用长期的现场工作，我分析了Jemeiwaa Kai和Wayúu居民之间作为送礼实践的一部分进行的亲密，对等和有意义的社会交流对于风能本身的可再生性至关重要，因为他们创造并实现了保持不间断地利用该资源的条件。由于这些交流活动认识了托管未来风电场的Wayúu社区的力量，破坏了他们的运营和基础架构，通过使公司陷入长期的义务关系中，并通过谈判在瓦尤土地上利用风能的道德方式，它们使受助者开辟了责任空间。赠与的中心性凸显出，作为拉瓜吉拉省风能理论的一个概念，提取并没有充分理解那些有钱人之间的各种互动，道德困境和价值生产形式。沿着风一直生活了几个世纪，如今，外界渴望利用它的力量。