Bringing global production network (GPN) research into conversation with a relational concept of territory, the article analyzes how a wind-GPN touches ground in La Guajira, Colombia. It offers a novel contribution in two regards: First, it aims to contribute to bridging GPN and critical development studies, focusing on the ambivalent developmental implications caused by the coupling of La Guajira with global production. Second, it traces controversies and frictions that result from ontological differences. By bringing ontological dimensions into the analysis of strategic coupling, this approach contributes to GPN’s “dark side” by unpacking how resource-based GPNs interact with contested territorialities.
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