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Transboundary water relations of the Itaipu Dam: Unveiling Brazilian consensual hydro-hegemony

Authors :
Berkhout, Pelle
Warner, Jeroen
Berkhout, Pelle
Warner, Jeroen
Source :
ISSN: 2152-906X
Publication Year :
2023

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