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Introduction
I am an applied social scientist who conducts community-based research on water and energy in Mapuche territory, southern Chile and in the northeast United States. I am interested in how ancestral and scientific knowledge can participate in collaborative research methodologies including intercultural water studies and cultural cartographies. I work at Dartmouth College and I research with the Epulafkenmapu Collective and Andes Lab Sur in Chile.
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January 2016 - July 2016
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Internationally, high head diversion small hydropower is being developed in mountainous regions. In contrast to the history of large reservoir hydropower’s well-documented social and environmental impacts, scholarship is only beginning to examine the impacts of small hydropower in river basins around the world. While a number of articles globally e...
En este artículo examinamos el reconocimiento de derechos indígenas en dos casos de estu- dio durante el desarrollo de proyectos de energía hidroeléctrica, los cuales ilustran distintos momentos en la implementación del Consentimiento Libre, Previo e Informado (CLPI) en Chile, en el marco de la ratificación del Convenio 169 de la Organización Inter...
In this article, I examine how hydropower projects in Mapuche territory both form part of internationally recognized approaches to develop renewable energy and also anchor colonial relations in rivers. In pursuit of energy development, water and ancestral cultural practices of the Mapuche Pueblo are being seized by a nexus of state laws and informa...
Addressing the climate crisis requires renewable energy, however, developing renewable energy should be equitable. In this article, we analyze a 15-year-old transnational hydroelectric power development conflict involving Indigenous rights in Mapuche-Williche territory, Chile and a Norwegian state-owned company, Statkraft. We seek to advance the fi...
In 1981, Chile created the legal figure of consumptive and non-consumptive Water-Use Rights (WURs), which gave way to the process of water commoditization and the consequent "water market". Since that date, multiple investigations have studied the evolution and characteristics of the consumptive WURs market but focused on consumptive WURs in northe...
Due to a rapid proliferation of small hydropower (SHP) in many parts of the world, a purported boom in SHP development globally has captured significant attention in recent research. While SHP is expanding rapidly in distinct places, the global landscape is more varied. Some regions are experiencing a plateau or even declines through decommissionin...
Purpose
The authors use media research and crowdsourced mapping to document how the first wave of the pandemic (April–August 2020) affected the Mapuche, focussing on seven categories of events: territorial control, spiritual defence, food sovereignty, traditional health practices, political violence, territorial needs and solidarity, and extractivi...
Purpose
Based on the research, the authors identify how four key concepts in disaster studies—agency, local scale, memory and vulnerability—are interrupted, and how these interruptions offer new perspectives for doing disaster research from and for the South.
Design/methodology/approach
Meta-analysis of case studies and revision of past and curren...
In this report we explain the methodology and initial findings of the project ‘Mapeando el Coronavirus en Wallmapu’, a crowdsourced mapping project that aims to monitor and analyze the impact of the pandemic in Wallmapu, recording community health and solidarities initiatives, and instances of political violence and extractivist activities.
In this paper, we examine small hydropower trends in Chile through institutional and ethnographic research and we reflect on what lessons this case provides for scholarship on the water–energy nexus. Contrary to the tendency in water–energy nexus scholarship to advocate for further integration of water and energy management, this paper explains an...
Manuel Tironi and Sarah Kelly draw attention to the ways in which Indigenous communities in Chile are leveraging Territorial Control to prevent the spread of Covid-19 for the “Covid-19 and the Social Sciences” series. Rather than relying on the logics of epidemiology to support these preventive actions, communities are appealing to the logics of so...
Th is article reviews how global hydropower assemblages catalyze socio-ecological change in the world's rivers. As a quintessential megaproject, massive dams and the hydropower they generate have long captivated the modernist development imaginary. Yet, despite growing recognition of the socio-ecological consequences of hydropower, it has recently...
In this report, we reflect on the 2-day thinkshop 'Figuring disasters: methodological speculations in exorbitant worlds' held in Valparaíso, Chile. The thinkshop aimed at discussing the possibility of inventing new genres for the figuration, representation and visualisation of distributed and processual geoclimatic disruptions. For this report, we...
El presente informe se realiza en el marco de la reclamación Rol R-78-2018, presentado por las Comunidades Mapuche Saturnino Leal Neimán, Ramón Raillanca Pampillo y Aurelia Maqui de Quimán, ante el Tercer Tribunal Ambiental con asiento en Valdivia, con motivo del rechazo de la solicitud de invalidación de la RCA N60/2017, por medio de la cual se ca...
This dissertation examines the recognition of Indigenous territorial rights amidst the development of small hydropower in the Puelwillimapu Territory, which traditionally spans the Ríos and Lagos regions of southern Chile. Around the world, small hydropower (internationally defined as generating between 1-10 megawatts, in Chile defined as generatin...
The transition to renewable energy technologies raises new and important governance questions. With small hydropower (SHP) expanding as part of renewable energy and climate mitigation strategies, this review assesses its impacts and identifies escalating policy issues. To provide a comprehensive literature review of small hydropower, we evaluated o...
The urban water–energy nexus is defined as the interlinkages among water, energy, and attendant infrastructure, coupled with the populations that rely on them and the institutions for their governance. Because these interlinkages shape the future trajectory of cities – their form, function, and footprint – the nexus can be harnessed as a holistic p...
This article contributes to the urban political ecology of water through applied anthropological research methods and praxis. Drawing on two case studies in urban Sonora, Mexico, we contribute to critical studies of infrastructure by focusing on large infrastructural systems and decentralized alternatives to water and sanitation provisioning. We re...
In this article we approach school gardens as sites of socioecological change where experiential politics work through the establishment of sustainable and socially just practices. We argue that for some children in “struggling schools,” school gardens become spaces where the alienating aspects of neoliberal school reform in the United States can b...
In late spring 2013, we – five graduate students from the School of Geography and Development and the School of Anthropology at the University of Arizona – set out to design an experiential-learning based political ecology course for undergraduate students. Informed by a critical pedagogical orientation, drawing inspiration from scholar-activists P...