Event Title
Mobilization and Resignation: Argentine Community Responses to the Proposed Garabí and Panambí Hydroelectric Dams
Location
Diamond 343
Start Date
30-4-2015 2:30 PM
End Date
30-4-2015 3:55 PM
Project Type
Presentation- Restricted to Campus Access
Description
The Garab and Panamb dams represent the most current proposal for expansion of hydro-power along the segment of the Uruguay River between Argentina and Brazil. My research investigates how communities along the river in Misiones, Argentina are responding to this plan for hydroelectric development, exploring common concerns about the project as well as manners in which citizen involvement in the issue varies between localities. The study discusses potential factors limiting citizen participation in the anti-dam movement, in spite of widespread preoccupation about the social and environmental impacts caused the dams. Specifically, this thesis analyzes how widespread lack of engagement among the river populations and the structure and the strategies of the prominent provincial civil society organization, La Mesa Provincial No a las Represas, present barriers to greater community mobilization.
Faculty Sponsor
Patrice Franko
Sponsoring Department
Colby College. Global Studies Program
CLAS Field of Study
Interdisciplinary Studies
Event Website
http://www.colby.edu/clas
ID
1240
Mobilization and Resignation: Argentine Community Responses to the Proposed Garabí and Panambí Hydroelectric Dams
Diamond 343
The Garab and Panamb dams represent the most current proposal for expansion of hydro-power along the segment of the Uruguay River between Argentina and Brazil. My research investigates how communities along the river in Misiones, Argentina are responding to this plan for hydroelectric development, exploring common concerns about the project as well as manners in which citizen involvement in the issue varies between localities. The study discusses potential factors limiting citizen participation in the anti-dam movement, in spite of widespread preoccupation about the social and environmental impacts caused the dams. Specifically, this thesis analyzes how widespread lack of engagement among the river populations and the structure and the strategies of the prominent provincial civil society organization, La Mesa Provincial No a las Represas, present barriers to greater community mobilization.
https://digitalcommons.colby.edu/clas/2015/program/433