Abstract

MUNOZ-GAVIRIA, Gustavo. “Social management” techniques of populations impacted by hydropower station projects as a government tool. Ágora U.S.B. [online]. 2017, vol.17, n.2, pp.387-412. ISSN 1657-8031.  https://doi.org/10.21500/16578031.3280.

This article analyzes the techniques and practices of “social management” in the construction of hydroelectric projects, which is a governmental mechanism to set the favorable conditions concerning the expansion of the sector. This is a type of mechanism made up visibility, declaration, power, and subjectivity. The empirical data was collected in 2014, through ethnographic work with the populations impacted by the Porce III Hydroelectric Power Station Project, which was built in Antioquia, Colombia, in the decade of the 2000s. This approach let the denaturalization of those techniques and practices, in order for them to be located in a wider logic of capital growth, where self- management of those affected plays a key role.

Keywords : Hydroelectric Power Stations; Social Management; Resettlement; Governmentality..

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