Transboundary water relations of the Itaipu Dam: Unveiling Brazilian consensual hydro-hegemony
The article identifies an empirical blind spot in the literature on hydro-hegemony, with a scant analysis of power relations and resource control between states in transboundary water relations in a Latin American context. This article aims to fill this gap by examining Brazilian hydro-hegemony in the case of the Brazilian-Paraguayan Itaipu hydroelectric dam, the second-largest hydroelectric dam in the world by production. Based on a literature review and analysis of interviews with regional experts, it is argued that Brazilian hydro-hegemony can be best understood as consensual hegemony, resulting in consensual hydro-hegemony as a distinct and understudied form. In the Itaipu case, Brazil established such a hydro-hegemony through the dam’s binational administrative company, containing Paraguay within a structure that leads to Brazil-skewed resource control.
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| Format: | Article/Letter to editor biblioteca |
| Language: | English |
| Subjects: | Brasil, Brazil, Brésil, Cuenca del Plata, Paraguay, River Plate (La Plata) Basin, bassin de La Plata, control de recursos, contrôle des ressources, energías re-novables, hegemony, hegemonía, hidroelectricidad, hidropolítica, hydroelectricity, hydropolitics, hydropolitique, hydroé-lectricité, hégémonie, renewable energy, resource control, énergie renouvelable, |
| Online Access: | https://research.wur.nl/en/publications/transboundary-water-relations-of-the-itaipu-dam-unveiling-brazili |
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