From <i>Cucubano</i> to <i>Cucubano</i> : Facilitating decolonial energy justice through the praxis of <i>autogestión</i>
Bibliographic record
Abstract
Concerns about the climate crisis have become widespread globally, raising the need to transition away from fossil fuels to other forms of energy production. In pursuing this path, energy transitions are often framed as practical solutions designed to modernize and maximize energy production and promote development and progress. Such framings justify top-down technological projects that frequently reinforce energy colonialism, perpetuating dynamics of dependency and slow violence. Thinking from one of the most climate-vulnerable regions in the world, the Caribbean, this piece reflects on the “ Cucubanos ,” a solar energy model from the community autogestión organization Casa Pueblo in Adjuntas, Puerto Rico. It argues that even while using similar technologies (e.g. solar panels), bottom-up initiatives differ fundamentally from top-down projects by prioritizing communal efforts rooted in a decolonial form of energy justice. These initiatives not only contribute to the decarbonization and decentralization of the energy system, they also play a pivotal role in democratizing and decolonizing Puerto Rico's future. Drawing on one year of participant observation, ethnographic field notes and semi-structured interviews, this article showcases the practical dimension of autogestión -driven transformations, illustrating how it serves both as an immediate option for frontline communities trapped in colonial dynamics and as a proof of concept for an alternative future. This reflection contributes to the understanding of the pluriverse of transitions by offering insights into a bottom-up practice that exists in the Caribbean amidst the climate crisis.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.002 | 0.004 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.009 | 0.008 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.004 | 0.003 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.007 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.004 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".