Mehr als nur (heiße) Luft Windparks im mexikanischen Bundesstaat Oaxaca verfestigen Ungleichheiten.

Conflicts about natural resources in countries of the global South have consistently gained more political and scholarly attention. In the context of climate protection and the 'green economy discourse', contentious renewable energy projects are becoming an important area of research. In the Mexican state of Oaxaca in the region of Istmo de Tehuantepec, local asambleas (assemblies) criticize the implementation of wind parks by transnational corporations, arguing that the latter as well as the Mexican state are ignoring and violating agrarian and indigenous rights guaranteed in the International Labour Organization (ILO) convention 169. This article gives a brief overview of the conflict in Istmo and argues that the implementation of wind parks is reproducing and intensifying existing structural conflicts surrounding land rights and competing processes of participation. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]