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Batel, S. (2023). Políticas e imaginarios del agua - Nun queremos la corta! Nun queremos acá la barraige!: Politicizing hydropower plants in Portugal through a (renewable) energy colonialism lens. Modernidad, energía y poder. Una historia cultural ecoenergética del sur de Europa.
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S. A. Batel,  "Políticas e imaginarios del agua - Nun queremos la corta! Nun queremos acá la barraige!: Politicizing hydropower plants in Portugal through a (renewable) energy colonialism lens", in Modernidad, energía y poder. Una historia cultural ecoenergética del sur de Europa, Madrid, 2023
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@misc{batel2023_1716206560928,
	author = "Batel, S.",
	title = "Políticas e imaginarios del agua - Nun queremos la corta! Nun queremos acá la barraige!: Politicizing hydropower plants in Portugal through a (renewable) energy colonialism lens",
	year = "2023",
	howpublished = "Both (printed and digital)",
	url = "https://www.museoreinasofia.es/actividades/modernidad-energia-poder"
}
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TY  - CPAPER
TI  - Políticas e imaginarios del agua - Nun queremos la corta! Nun queremos acá la barraige!: Politicizing hydropower plants in Portugal through a (renewable) energy colonialism lens
T2  - Modernidad, energía y poder. Una historia cultural ecoenergética del sur de Europa
AU  - Batel, S.
PY  - 2023
CY  - Madrid
UR  - https://www.museoreinasofia.es/actividades/modernidad-energia-poder
AB  - The recent sale of three large-scale hydroelectric power dams in Terra de Miranda (Northeast of Portugal) to an international consortium, gave rise to local protests reopening old wounds of communities affected by these ‘cuts’ (la corta in mirandês, the regional language) in the rivers, due to related injustices in the deployment of the dams and throughout time. This controversy prompted us to inquire into the imaginaries of water and energy that emerged in these and other dams-affected communities from the impositions and promises made about these infrastructures by the State (from the dictatorship to democracy), and that often implied the dispossession and controlling from afar of rural territories and of their socio-ecological systems.  As such, this paper will, based on the framework of renewable energy colonialism, investigate and discuss the spatio-temporalities of hydrocolonialism in Portugal throughout time, from the 1950’s (under the dictatorship) to the present,  and examples of resistance.  We undertake  a  psychosocial  historiography  of  selected  large-scale  hydroelectric  power plants in Portugal, performed  via  archival  data, namely public TV news segments and newspapers’ articles,  and  interviews  with  participants  of the  Terra  de  Miranda movement.   Our   analysis   illustrates   the particular ways through which hydrocolonialism   has   been   enacted –discursively,  infrastructurally,  and  psychosocially –in  rural  areas  in  Portugal,  across different socio-political regimes, and also how it can be contested.
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