GWF's water chat features interviews with leading researchers on water governance, policy, science and more! Head over to GWF's website for open-access water articles and our water learning hub.
Global Water Forum
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GWF's water chat features interviews with leading researchers on water governance, policy, science and more! Head over to GWF's website for open-access water articles and our water learning hub.
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May 30, 2020
Emilie Dupuits: Transnational movements and grassroots struggles around water in Latin America
In this episode, Dr. Emilie Dupuits joins GWF’s Jesper Svensson to share her insights about how local communities engage in transnational mobilisations to defend their rights and what impact it has on local commons in Latin America. Latin America has a number of distinct features. It is home to more than 800 indigenous groups with a combined population of approximately 42 million. Latin America is also a region with significant inequality where eight countries are among the 20 countries with the highest income inequality worldwide. At the same time, the region exhibits one of the highest rates of biodiversity and ecosystem services (ES) loss worldwide with high asymmetry in access to ecosystem services benefits. Over the last two decades, environmental protests have been on the rise ranging from Bolivia and Peru to Ecuador and Chile around water and infrastructure projects. However, significant variation exists in the region in terms of what drives grassroots struggles and how they are scaled up to the transnational level. Dr. Dupuits says that in the context of globalizing transboundary environmental challenges, strategies to protect and secure the local commons such as water resources have been increasingly scaled up. Consequently, local communities have started to engage in transnational mobilisations to defend their rights and express their concerns. This often implies the adoption and institutionalisation of emerging global norms, principles and modes of framing and claiming – such as the Human Right to Water or the Rights of Nature – which will interfere with and may even go against local understandings, meaning, and rooted struggles or initial claims made by grassroots movements. The appropriation of expert knowledge and technical idiom may improve their recognition and access to political and financial support. However, transnational involvement may also (re)produce misrecognition or exclusion on the ground for community-based organisations. Interview Q&A 1. What is the relationship between neoliberalism and social resistance movements in Latin America over the last two decades? (2:08) 2. How have governments, market-led institutions and local communities interacted in global environmental arenas over the last two decades? (8:25) 3. When, where and how have grassroots movements developed strategies to scale up their activities in order to improve their access and representation in global arenas and transnational processes? (14:55) 4. Are there examples and patterns in Latin America where governments, markets and local communities can co-exist in desirable outcomes? (23:48) 5. What about the role of women? (30:57) 5. When a mobilization occurs and is scaled up to the international level, what is the effect back on the local ground? (32:47) 6. Which institutional and actor configurations contribute to protect and secure local commons such as water resources? (40:52) 7. What can states outside of Latin-America do to address Bolsonaro’s violations of indigenous people’s lives and livelihoods? (43:40)
April 16, 2020
Dr. Sam Geall: how the one-party state, China, shapes the development of the Mekong River Basin
In this episode, Dr. Sam Geall joins GWF:s Jesper Svensson to discuss how the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) shapes the development of the Mekong River. Dr. Geall says that China’s Lancang-Mekong Cooperation Initiative is primarily driven by money and security but he hopes that inter-governmental organizations like the Mekong River Commission (RMC) and the Chinese LMC will not lead to a zero-sum game in the basin and region. www.globalwaterforum.org
March 31, 2020
Brian Eyler: Dams, Justice and the future of the Mekong Basin
How is hydropower dam construction and other development practices converging and forming a death of a thousands cuts of the longest river in Southeast Asia shared between China, Myanmar, Laos, Thailand, Cambodia and Vietnam? How long can the system hold on? Brian Eyler, author of the book ”The Last Days of the Mighty Mekong” shares his perspectives and insights with GWF:s Jesper Svensson in this episode.
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