Beyond state space: Competing spatializations and the violence of energy infrastructures
本文提出一个关系性视角分析能源空间及其尺度迭代，基于墨西哥电网的三个基础设施连接案例，论证主导空间生产建立在先前（国家与非国家）暴力之上，并需放在资本主义地理重组中理解。
Energy infrastructures are the talk of the hour. Enormous investments are mobilized globally to overhaul national energy systems, link different grids, and make electricity provision ‘future proof’. Analyses, however, have frequently limited themselves to binary perspectives between national energy spaces and private or foreign provision, energy independence and dependence. Contributing to literature on energy spatialities, infrastructure violence, and contestation, we propose a differentiated, relational perspective on energy spaces and their scalar iterations. Based on an analysis of three instances of infrastructural connections feeding into and out of the Mexican grid, we argue that the dominant production of spaces, rather than a rupture with previous forms of territorialization, builds on prior (state and non-state) violence, and must be understood within the reorganization of geographies of capitalism. These infrastructural projects constitute only one of several competing and contradicting forms of spatialization in efforts to transform energy systems. We suggest exploring the relation between energy infrastructure’s role in producing spaces of violence against people and nature, and alternative, contestatory politics.