Dear Reed and all, Thank you!
As a Brazilian and GEP scholar, I second your view and do hope the project is open to this possibility. Things don't look good in Brazil/Amazon (and other biomes). Violence and other kinds of Human Rights abuses are increasing. "Ruralistas" in the Congress are trying to roll back legislation for socio-environmental impact assessment, Indigenous Land and Protected Area demarcation and so on, that would have huge socio-environmental impacts not only for Brazil, but for the planet, considering the dimensions of the Amazon forest/basin, as well as, the high socio-biodiversity in the Amazon, Cerrado/savannah and Atlantic forest. Cristina On Fri, May 12, 2017 at 1:15 PM, Reed M. Kurtz <[email protected]> wrote: > Certainly does at the least look like an interesting project. I would in > particular be interested to know what kinds of relationships the > researchers intend to develop or have developed with activists, > organizations, and communities in Amazonia who are critical of or otherwise > resist these hydropower projects? "developing new ways to reduce the > social, economic and environmental costs of hydropower development." - Does > that potentially include the possibility of abandoning (or resisting) > existing or future developments for hydropower projects in Brazil? > > Let's be clear here - there are active and ongoing struggles over land use > and property rights between the Brazilian state, capitalist > agro-industrialists and developers, and indigenous communities and workers > movements (such as the MST/Via Campesina) with frequently violent > repercussions for movement workers and activists. And activists and > observers have acknowledged that human rights violations have increased > since the "legal coup" of current Brazilian government Michel Temer. (See > http://globaljusticeecology.org/watch-aggression-against- > social-movement-leaders-rampant-in-brazil/ for starters) > > Seems crucial for me that global environmental politics scholars would be > wise to be critically aware and publicly self-reflexive about our relations > to these sorts of things, much as our colleagues in cultural and political > ecology and anthropology/geography have done (or at least tried to do). > > -Reed > > On Thu, May 11, 2017 at 11:35 PM, Forrest Fleischman < > [email protected]> wrote: > >> Looks like a neat opportunity (see attachment) >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "gep-ed" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to [email protected]. >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >> > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "gep-ed" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- Cristina Y. A. Inoue Visiting Fellow - School of Global Environmental Sustainability Colorado State University Professora-Associada Instituto de Relações Internacionais Universidade de Brasília CV Lattes http://lattes.cnpq.br/5557106844328206 http://buscatextual.cnpq.br/buscatextual/visualizacv.do?id=K4791276Z4 --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ Faça consciente, faça diferente! Substitua o copo descartável por uma caneca durável :) Apague as luzes ao sair Feche as torneiras Use os dois lados do papel Dê carona...PEDALE! http://tomeconsciencia-unb.blogspot.com/ -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~--- IREL-UNB Campus Universitário Darcy Ribeiro - Universidade de Brasilia - Asa Norte, Caixa Postal 04306 - CEP 70919-970 - Brasilia, DF Telefones 55 61 3107 3644 55 61 3107 3637 -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "gep-ed" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
