Paper result of Moore grant and collaborative learning process of the GIA project

The paper Gobernanza de proyectos de infraestructura: pueblos tradicionales y estrategias de conservación y sostenibilidad en la Amazonía recently published on the Canadia Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Studies is a product of the Moore grant and highlights the collaborative learning process of the GIA project.

Several UF TCD students and faculty were authors in this paper, such as Dr. Stephen Perz (Sociology) and Bob Buschbacher (TCD) and Marliz Arteaga (SNRE); Sinomar da Fonseca Junior (SNRE), Andrea Chavez (TCD), Martha Rosero-Pena (TCD) among others.

Abstract in English: Social inequalities in Latin America remain abundantly evident with regard to land rights and resource tenure. Infrastructure projects constitute a key hallmark of development policies that often serve to maintain such inequalities, in large part because infrastructure.
planning is dominated by powerful development interests and excludes subaltern stakeholders. This has motivated a focus on issues of governance of infrastructure, and the strategies of subaltern groups to influence infrastructure planning. We focus on the Amazon basin, the target of many infrastructure projects as well as home to many Indigenous groups and other local peoples who have mobilized to resist infrastructure and improve governance using diverse strategies. We report three case studies where subaltern stakeholders pursued strategies to intervene in infrastructure planning. Two cases focus on “instrumental” strategies that seek a direct impact on the planning process, namely legal and communication approaches. The third case highlights collaboration as an indirect strategy to support instrumental strategies, featuring the factors that affect intercultural collaboration. The cases offer concrete experiences of different strategies by subaltern peoples to intervene in infrastructure planning to improve governance.