期刊
SUSTAINABILITY SCIENCE
卷 13, 期 3, 页码 617-633出版社
SPRINGER JAPAN KK
DOI: 10.1007/s11625-018-0558-1
关键词
Hydroelectric dams; Violence; Extractivism; Ecological distribution conflicts; Renewable energies; Co-production of knowledge
资金
- ENVJUSTICE project - European Research Council (ERC) [695446]
- ACKnowl-EJ project
- Transformations to Sustainability Programme, by the International Social Science Council-ISSC [ISSC2015-TKN150317115354]
The present article analyses a unique database of 220 dam-related environmental conflicts, retrieved from the Global Atlas on Environmental Justice (EJAtlas), and based on knowledge co-production between academics and activists. Despite well-known controversial, social, and environmental impacts of dams, efforts to increase renewable energy generation have reinstated the interest into hydropower development globally. People affected by dams have largely denounced such 'unsustainabilities' through collective non-violent actions. Nevertheless, we found that repression, criminalization, violent targeting of activists and assassinations are recurrent features of conflictive dams. Violent repression is particularly high when indigenous people are involved. Indirect forms of violence are also analysed through socio-economic, environmental, and health impacts. We argue that increasing repression of the opposition against unwanted energy infrastructures does not only serve to curb specific protest actions, but also aims to delegitimize and undermine differing understanding of sustainability, epistemologies, and world views. This analysis cautions that allegedly sustainable renewables such as hydropower often replicates patterns of violence within a frame of an 'extractivism of renewables'. We finally suggest that co-production of knowledge between scientists, activists, and communities should be largely encouraged to investigate sensitive and contentious topics in sustainability studies.
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