@conference {2217,
	title = {Contours of Environmental and Water Justice; anti dams movements and resistance challenging politics and imaginaries},
	booktitle = {Fourth International Conference on Degrowth for Ecological Sustainability and Social Equity},
	year = {2014},
	address = {Leipzig},
	abstract = {Session Title: Challenges to growth from the South: commodity frontiers, conflicts and alternatives Organizers: Marta Conde, Mariana Walter and Gustavo Garc{\'\i}a L{\'o}pez - Institut de Ci{\`e}nce i Tecnologia Ambientals, Universitat Aut{\'o}noma de Barcelona (UAB) Contours of Environmental and Water Justice; anti dams movements and resistance challenging politics and imaginaries Keywords: dams, environmental justice, political ecology, social movements, energy SHORT ABSTRACT Socio-environmental conflicts around dams are mounting around the world, as dam construction has been fuelled by green energy investments and is still promoted as technically efficient solution to tackle energy demand and climate change. Groups opposing such projects have been fighting for several decades now and are building networks with other movements and scholars. They first focused on fair rehabilitation of affected people, but are now incorporating more comprehensive analysis and reflections. This article explores the current politics of major anti-dam groups and networks with a special focus on critics towards the energy production model and the interconnections with other relating issues (water management, farming, etc). We aim at presenting major anti-dam movements as political movements, quite different from NIMBY movements or localist groups. We draw on the Atlas of Environmental Justice of the EJOLT project and apply a post-structural political ecology approach, relying on activist-led research and activist knowledge.},
	author = {Daniela Del Bene}
}
