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Transboundary water relations of the Itaipu Dam: Unveiling Brazilian consensual hydro-hegemony
- Source :
- ISSN: 2152-906X
- Publication Year :
- 2023
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Abstract
- 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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- Database :
- OAIster
- Journal :
- ISSN: 2152-906X
- Notes :
- application/pdf, Regions and Cohesion 13 (2023) 3, ISSN: 2152-906X, ISSN: 2152-906X, English
- Publication Type :
- Electronic Resource
- Accession number :
- edsoai.on1452796693
- Document Type :
- Electronic Resource