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Analyserahmen Windenergie: Konflikte um gesellschaftliche Naturverhältnisse, Partizipation und Diskurse -- Konfliktlinien und Machtverhältnisse in der Region Tehuantepec -- Die Entwicklung der Windkraftanlagen in Südmexiko -- Akteure und Konfliktpunkte und die sprachliche Rahmung rund um den Konflikt -- Schlussfolgerungen für eine nachhaltige Ausgestaltung der Energiewende

the ambivalent attitude of Poland's communist leadership towards Poland's minorities - on the one hand violent and severely repressive, while on the other hand allowing for controlled liverties and offering protection - is the main focus of this article. In the mid-1940s, Poland's new communist leadership proceeded to expel and deport millions of Germans, Lithuanians, Belarusians and Ukrainians from their native territories. A decade later, the communist government adopted a policy that aimed at the reduction of discrimination and the creation of equal social and economic opportunities for the country's residual minority populations. This article explores the background of the wavering communist nationalities policies by focusing on Poland's Ukrainians. It demonstrates how the seemingly contradictory policies of ethnic cleansing and affirmative action were prompted by the same underlying political motivations. (Nations and Nationalism)

This article explores the background of social engineering in the Bieszczady in the 1950s and 1960s, when a revolutionary political leadership ventured to impose a new socialist order in an area ravaged by war and ethnic cleansing. The article addresses two questions: first, what were the conditions that resulted in the failure of socialist engineering in the Bieszczady, and second, what were the consequences of this failure for relationships at the local level? One thesis put forward is that the relative weakness of the Polish state vis-à-vis the local setting left plenty of room for local residents to develop a dynamic social order of their own.

This article addresses the problem of ethnic conflict and coexistence by examining the Polish-Ukrainian relationship from an anthropological perspective. It explores why today Poles and Ukrainians coexist peacefully in southeast Poland, despite a bloody civil war in the 1940s. The case study suggests that a dynamic system of alliance, guided by cross-cutting cleavages and cross-cutting social networks, provides for negative feedback mechanisms that contribute to resilience to violent ethnic conflict at the community level. Although the ethnic cleft has increasingly been bridged, the ethnic cleavage remains a source of structural vulnerability.

So-called development projects in rural Mexico are heavily contested. Changes in institutional design have had little effect in mediating the exclusivity of the political decision-making processes defining such projects. Why, and how, has the Mexican state been able to maintain a developmentalist agenda, despite growing pressures to incorporate participatory development institutions and consult Indigenous peoples about development projects? This article introduces the geographic concept of scale and the concept of the state's heterogeneous selectivities into debates on participation to study the politics of development projects. It analyzes the potential and existing obstacles to political participation for Indigenous networks and activists in the corresponding planning processes across institutional scales, examining protest against wind energy development in the state of Oaxaca and the project of "rural cities" in the state of Chiapas. Rather than two separate cases for comparison, both examples represent different planning processes involving the same heterogeneous state and the same promise of progress., ResumenLos llamados proyectos de desarrollo en el México rural son muy cuestionados. Los cambios en el diseño institucional han tenido poco efecto en la mediación de la exclusividad de los procesos de decisión política que definen dichos proyectos. ¿Por qué y cómo ha podido el Estado mexicano mantener una agenda desarrollista, a pesar de las crecientes presiones para incorporar instituciones de desarrollo participativo y consultar a los pueblos indígenas sobre los proyectos de desarrollo? Introducimos el concepto geográfico de escala y el concepto de selectividad heterogénea del Estado en los debates sobre participación política, para estudiar los procesos políticos alrededor de esos proyectos. Analizamos los obstáculos potenciales y existentes para la participación política de redes y activistas indígenas en los procesos de planificación correspondientes a través de diferentes escalas institucionales, basándonos en la protesta contra el desarrollo de la energía eólica en el estado de Oaxaca, y el proyecto de "ciudades rurales" en Chiapas. Más que dos casos distintos en comparación, ambos ejemplos representan diferentes procesos de planificación que involucran al mismo estado heterogéneo, y la misma promesa de progreso.