Usos, resistencias y aceptación de tecnologías energéticas emergentes en el hogar: El caso de la política de recambio de estufas en Temuco (En Prensa)
Revista Internacional de Sociologia, 2017
En el marco de un creciente interés de la sociología del medioambiente y la energía por estudiar ... more En el marco de un creciente interés de la sociología del medioambiente y la energía por estudiar los procesos de transición hacia sistemas energéticos pro ambientales, este artículo presenta los principales hallazgos empíricos de un estudio de caso que aborda cualitativamente una política de recambio de estufas en la ciudad de Temuco, Chile. El articulo utiliza dos enfoques teóricos complementarios, la Multilevel perspective (MLP) y la Teoría de las Prácticas Sociales (TPS) para describir la existencia de mecanismos de bloqueo a los procesos de transición sostenible, tanto a nivel institucional como a nivel de las practicas asociadas al uso de las estufas. El artículo se basa en 23 entrevistas semiestructuradas a actores claves del proceso de recambio y 23 ejercicios de observación participante orientadas a describir las prácticas de calefacción de los hogares de Temuco. Las lecciones aprendidas en este artículo, refuerzan la tesis promovida por otros autores quienes sugieren que los conceptos abordados desde una sola perspectiva teórica raramente nos proveen del conocimiento profundo acerca de las interacciones humano-energía necesario para desarrollar una transición hacia sistemas energéticos pro ambientales.
ABSTRACT.
By using two sociological theoretical approaches, the Multilevel Perspective (MLP) and the Social Practices Theory (TPS), this paper examines a concrete a wood-burning stoves replacement policy in the city of Temuco. This is done by relying on 23 interviews with key actors and 23 participant observation exercise aimed at describing the heating practices of Temuco households. The article describes four lock-in mechanisms that might posit difficulties in terms of fostering a transition into more environmentally friendly heating practices and technologies. In line with previous scholar work by suggesting that in order to facilitate a transition towards pro-environmental energy systems, more interaction and dialogue between different sociological approaches to human-energy interaction is needed.
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Palabras claves.
FUTUROS, SOCIOLOGÍA DE LAS ALTERNATIVAS, TEORÍA SOCIAL, CRISIS SOCIAL Y AMBIENTAL.
Abstract.
This article offers a theoretical reflection on how sociology and other related social sciences can contribute to imagine and mobilize desirable alternative futures. The argument is organized as follows. Firstly, I explore the relationship between social sciences and the tasks of imagining and designing alternatives futures. We highlight the actual predominance of economics and the invisibility of other forms of social as critical tools for thinking desirable futures. After highlighting of economic thinking for proposing alternatives futures, we argue that a more active involvement of social sciences, particularly sociology, is needed. By engaging in this task, sociology is also connecting to a long tradition of sociological thought about alternatives. In the second part of the paper, we identify two modalities from which sociology has approached the problem of alternative futures. We do so by examining their possibilities and limits. A first modality focus on the production of epochal discourses of social change and often combines a sociological diagnosis with a set of normative frameworks that define a desirable future. We call this first version declarative modalities of the future. A second modality has focus mainly on studying empirical forms of collective experimentation that embody alternatives for the future and/or on developing methodologies for fostering concrete alternatives. We label this second version pre-figurative modalities of the future. In the last part of the paper, and based on the previous analysis, we proposes three critical paths to further encourage a sociology of alternatives, namely: addressing the problem of scale, in particular the tension between the universal and the multiple as constitute elements of any proposed alternative; second, considering the world of institutions, the state in particular, as critical spaces trough which alternatives can be materialized, and third, the central role of infrastructures as a tools to embody and mobilize alternatives for a desirable futures.
Keywords.
FUTURES, SOCIOLOGY OF ALTERNATIVES, SOCIAL THEORY, ENVIRONMENTAL AND SOCIAL CRISIS.
ABSTRACT.
By using two sociological theoretical approaches, the Multilevel Perspective (MLP) and the Social Practices Theory (TPS), this paper examines a concrete a wood-burning stoves replacement policy in the city of Temuco. This is done by relying on 23 interviews with key actors and 23 participant observation exercise aimed at describing the heating practices of Temuco households. The article describes four lock-in mechanisms that might posit difficulties in terms of fostering a transition into more environmentally friendly heating practices and technologies. In line with previous scholar work by suggesting that in order to facilitate a transition towards pro-environmental energy systems, more interaction and dialogue between different sociological approaches to human-energy interaction is needed.
domestic finances at the intersection where both kinds of calculation – the big data of market devices and the small data of ordinary financial practices- can be simultaneously observed. More specifically, this article discusses some of the methodological challenges faced from this new position, particularly, how we used some of the traces left by big data and how we dealt with an surprising “commercial circuit” founded in our material.