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Laura Inés Bottiglieri (Dir.) — Tue, 30 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Introduction. The Energy Transition from the Global South: Insights for Understanding and Shaping the Model. Part 2

Jorge Chemes, Facundo González — Tue, 30 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Energy Vulnerability Beyond the 10% Threshold:

Juan Pablo Soria, Facundo Picabea, Nilsa María Sarmiento Barbieri — Tue, 30 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0000

This article proposes the construction and application of an Energy Vulnerability (EV) Index for low-income urban neighbourhoods in the city of Salta, Argentina, based on primary data collected through the 2024 Energy Census (n = 345 households). Although the index is grounded in a situated empirical case study, its methodological design seeks to provide an analytical model transferable to low-income urban contexts across Latin America, characterized by shared structural conditions such as housing informality, precarious energy infrastructures, and persistent socioeconomic inequalities.

The EV Index emerged from intensive fieldwork and from the operationalization of empirically observable dimensions identified through the census instrument, with the aim of overcoming the limitations of the classical Energy Poverty indicator based on the 10% electricity expenditure rule. Rather than relying on a strictly monetary approach, the proposed index incorporates dimensions that reflect the effective socio-territorial conditions of households and the ways in which energy is articulated with everyday life. Methodologically, the index integrates three analyticaldimensions—Economic Accessibility, Risk and Infrastructure, and Service Quality and Stability—constructed from weighted and normalized variables on a scale ranging from 0 to 1.

When applied to the surveyed population, the index identifies 41.7% of households as energetically vulnerable, compared to 29.3% classified according to the traditional energy poverty criterion. The findings show that EV captures a broader range of situations of energy deprivation and reflects structural poverty more accurately in low-income urban contexts in Latin America

Inhabiting the Energy Frontier:

Genaro Juan Leonardo Vilte, Rubén Darío González, Viviana Tarifa Fernández — Tue, 30 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0000

This article presents a critical and situated analysis of the implications of access to electrical energy and digital connectivity at Rural School No. 4261 in Santa Bárbara, located in the Quebrada de las Conchas region (Salta, Argentina). Drawing on a longitudinal qualitative research design (2022–2025) that triangulates student surveys, participant observation, and in-depth interviews, the study examines the tensions between material infrastructure and processes of symbolic appropriation within a context of cultural diversity. The article incorporates categories from communication theory (mediations, digital divide), Latin American philosophy (geoculture), and critical pedagogy in order to interpret energy not merely as a technical input, but as a condition of possibility for citizenship. Preliminary findings reveal a fracture between the school’s energy precariousness—marked by intermittency and technological obsolescence—and the accelerated digitalization of households through satellite internet access. The study concludes that energy justice in rural territories requires moving beyond the logic of physical access in order to advance toward technological sovereignty that integrates local knowledge systems and guarantees the right to inhabit the territory with dignity.

Disability, Digital Technologies, and Energy Transition:

Mauro Alejandro Soto — Tue, 30 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0000

This article offers a theoretical contribution aimed at analyzing the intersection of disability, digital technologies, and energy transition within the frameworks of cognitive materialism and the socio-technical approach. It argues that the current digitalization of energy infrastructures, far from constituting a neutral process, establishes new material arrangements that may deepen the exclusion of persons with disabilities if the principles of universal design and accessibility are overlooked. Through a critical discussion that revisits the still underdeveloped dialogue between Disability Studies and the field of Science, Technology, and Society (STS), the article identifies key issues such as information gaps, the inaccessibility of digital service platforms, and the rigidity of smart meter interfaces. The study concludes that the energy transition must move beyond a paradigm of “passive protection” toward one of digital energy citizenship. Within this framework, accessibility becomes the condition of possibility for the exercise of rights, requiring the active participation of persons with disabilities in the co- construction of technologies for social inclusion.

Being Legible to the Machine:

Tue, 30 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0000

This article examines the transition toward algorithmic monitoring of energy consumption in contexts of poverty, focusing on the situated case study of Olacapato, in the Puna region of Salta, during 2024. Methodologically, the study adopts a qualitative-critical approach that uses the 2024 Energy Census as both an empirical source and an analytical proxy. The survey was based on a sample of 30 households—covering approximately 75% of the estimated total of 40 dwellings—and involved structured face-to-face interviews conducted during December. The findings reveal that standardized metering systems render invisible survival practices such as voluntary disconnection, the combined use of diesel, gas cylinders, and firewood, as well as community-based energy networks. Algorithms operate as social agents that classify these strategies as anomalies or fraud,
thereby enabling punitive interventions. Drawing on authors such as Tarleton Gillespie (2016), Cathy O’Neil (2016), and Safiya Umoja Noble (2018), the article argues that algorithms function as infrastructures of power. Finally, it proposes a community-based energy audit grounded in situated metrics as a means of contesting energy governance and advancing toward sociotechnical justice

Scientific Knowledge Production on Green Hydrogen in Argentina:

Romina Daniela Salvador — Tue, 30 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0000

This paper presents a bibliometric study of the scientific knowledge production on green hydrogen in Argentina, based on scientific articles systematized through the bibliographic reference platform OpenAlex during the 2000–2025 period. First, the article introduces and justifies the broader problem framework within which this study is situated. It then outlines the
conceptual and methodological framework, grounded in a content analysis approach through which a structured review of the scientific literature was conducted following the Scientometric and Systematic Yielding Mapping Process (SYSMAP) model. Third, the results are analyzed both quantitatively and qualitatively, considering categories such as authorship, publication source, year of publication, institutional affiliations of authors, and the main research lines developed in the field. Finally, the paper concludes with an evaluation of the findings, highlighting the growing relevance that the topic has acquired within scientific agendas—particularly from 2015 to the present—as well as the principal research trends and the areas that remain underexplored.

Just Energy Transition and the Construction of Techno-Productive Capacities in Argentina

Santiago Manuel Garrido — Tue, 30 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0000

The energy transition in peripheral countries such as Argentina represents a major challenge in terms of generating local technological capacities. Incorporating this dimension may transform the challenges posed by the climate crisis for countries of the Global South into opportunities for development. A transition toward a new socio-technical regime grounded in sustainability may foster the emergence of local innovation dynamics, the opening of new product lines, the creation of new productive enterprises, and new forms of production organization. In other words, it may encourage the development of new economic sectors, supplier networks, and export opportunities.

In recent years, different policies promoting the adoption of renewable energy sources have incorporated certain elements related to the development of local suppliers, either through quotas or through specific incentives within public bidding processes. However, only in a limited number of cases have concrete policies aimed at local technoproductive development been implemented. This paper seeks to reconstruct and analyze the trajectory of two key industrial sectors for the energy transition process in Argentina: the solar thermal industry and the wind energy industry. In particular, it focuses on the process of coconstruction between public policies and techno-productive development dynamics. Based on this analytical reconstruction, the article aims to contribute new reflections on the processes of just energy transition in peripheral countries.

“It Is Like a Small-Scale Model of What Happens in Reality”:

Mercedes Saccone — Tue, 30 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Among the diverse practices that students develop throughout their schooling experiences, the formation of Student Councils (SCs) has gained particular relevance in a context marked by the rise of right-wing movements and a “disenchantment with actually existing democracy”(Grimson, 2024, p. 16), not only in Argentina but also in other countries across the region and the world. More than a decade after the enactment of National Law No. 26,877 (2013), which regulates the creation and functioning of Student Councils, Provincial Law No. 6,419 on the creation and organization of Student Councils in the province of Jujuy was passed in late 2024. Within this framework, we seek to present advances concerning two analytical dimensions: (A) the processes of implementation/adaptation of educational policies aimed at formally recognizing and therefore regulating the existence and functioning of Student Councils, particularly in the province of Jujuy; and (B) the meanings attributed to Student Councils and participation within these spaces by different actors, especially the students attending the secondary school where the first Student Council election under the new provincial law was held. This study is part of a broader line of research on the experiences and schooling processes of young people in contexts of poverty and social inequality, which we have been developing through both individual and collective research projects. The study adopts a relational socio-anthropological approach, drawing on contributions from the Latin American tradition of ethnographic research on educational issues.

A Planetary Dream:

Agustina Catalano — Tue, 30 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0000

During the 1960s and 1970s in Argentina, the poet, editor, and sailor Ariel Canzani (1928– 1983) developed several editorial projects aimed at creating alternative spaces for the circulation of poetry and art, most notably the magazines Cormorán y Delfín and Ediciones Dead Weight. This article reconstructs Canzani’s largely forgotten trajectory, analyzes the distinctive features of his editorial poetics, and relates this praxis to the notion of independent publishing in order to examine its disruptive dimension and its capacity for political and social intervention.

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Laura Inés Bottiglieri (Dir.) — Tue, 30 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0000