Certainly does at the least look like an interesting project. I would in particular be interested to know what kinds of relationships the researchers intend to develop or have developed with activists, organizations, and communities in Amazonia who are critical of or otherwise resist these hydropower projects? "developing new ways to reduce the social, economic and environmental costs of hydropower development." - Does that potentially include the possibility of abandoning (or resisting) existing or future developments for hydropower projects in Brazil?
Let's be clear here - there are active and ongoing struggles over land use and property rights between the Brazilian state, capitalist agro-industrialists and developers, and indigenous communities and workers movements (such as the MST/Via Campesina) with frequently violent repercussions for movement workers and activists. And activists and observers have acknowledged that human rights violations have increased since the "legal coup" of current Brazilian government Michel Temer. (See http://globaljusticeecology.org/watch-aggression-against-social-movement-leaders-rampant-in-brazil/ for starters) Seems crucial for me that global environmental politics scholars would be wise to be critically aware and publicly self-reflexive about our relations to these sorts of things, much as our colleagues in cultural and political ecology and anthropology/geography have done (or at least tried to do). -Reed On Thu, May 11, 2017 at 11:35 PM, Forrest Fleischman <[email protected]> wrote: > Looks like a neat opportunity (see attachment) > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "gep-ed" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "gep-ed" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
