Patagonia, without Dams! Lessons of a David vs. Goliath campaign

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• 作者：Eduardo Silva ^{gesilva@tulane.edu}
• 关键词：Extractive imperative ; Social movements ; Political ecology ; Hydroelectric power ; Politics
• 刊名：The Extractive Industries and Society
• 出版年：2016
• 出版时间：November 2016
• 年：2016
• 卷：3
• 期：4
• 页码：947-957
• 全文大小：474 K
• 卷排序：3

文摘

In an age of democratization and heightened awareness of citizen rights in Latin America, the expansion of extractive industries frequently involves conflict. In those conflicts marginalized, rural, poor, ethnic and racial subaltern social groups, and their allies often stand in the front lines of resistance. This paper asks: Under what conditions might challenges from below induce Latin American governments to adopt policies, programs, and processes conducive to broader based inclusiveness in the struggle over environment and development? It uses a successful campaign against a mega-hydroelectric power project in remote Chilean Patagonia to shed light on this question. The case underscores the utility of combining political ecology with social movement theory to disentangle factors conducive to positive outcomes from protest to aggressive extractive projects. It stresses the necessity of building the associational and collective power of resistance movements. It reveals the importance of forming rural-urban coalitions to overcome government divide and rule tactics. It finds that major policy impacts of resistance movements, including advancements of alternative policy agendas, are of necessity politically mediated.