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- Title
Transboundary water relations of the Itaipu Dam: Unveiling Brazilian consensual hydro-hegemony.
- Authors
Berkhout, Pelle; Warner, Jeroen
- 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.
- Subjects
BRAZIL; RIO de la Plata (Argentina &; Uruguay); TRANSBOUNDARY waters; DAMS; LITERATURE reviews; POWER resources; HYDROELECTRIC power plants; POWER plants; HEGEMONY
- Publication
Regions & Cohesion, 2023, Vol 13, Issue 3, p1
- ISSN
2152-906X
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.3167/reco.2023.130302