Session at RGS 2018 // Amazon’s Hydropower-Navigation-Agribusiness Nexus

One of the main conclusions to be drawn is that the sensibility to culture, agency and social identity must be connected with the wider macro-economic policies and national politics. In other words, the focus on culture and local circumstances cannot be invoked at the expanse of the equally important social, economic and political phenomena at the regional and national scale. There have been three critical moments of regional development, evolving from a period of more direct state intervention to the more recent partnership with private construction companies, but several important features have remained always present, such as the disregard from the existing socio-ecological features of the river basins involved and the attempt to convert shared waters into private sources of economic gain.

Presenter

• Antonio A. R. Ioris (Cardiff University, UK)

Chair: Bernardo Fernandes (São Paulo State University, Brazil)

Where and when

Part of Session "Landscapes of Conflict in Latin American: Rural and Urban Territorial Disputes (2)"

31 Aug 2018
16.50-18:30

Main Building
Council Chamber

More information

Source: RGS AC2018 website