Abstract

FONSECA-REYES, Ángela-Jasmín. Outside of conflict? Notes on the implementation of Hidroituango in Antioquia Northwestern (Colombia). URVIO [online]. 2024, n.38, pp.100-113. ISSN 1390-4299.  https://doi.org/10.17141/urvio.38.2024.6140.

This work discusses around the process of territorializing of Hidroituango, the largest hydroelectric project that is being built in Colombia. It considers some of the socio-environmental effects produced by it, as well as the dynamics and the interactions it has had with the internal armed conflict in the Northwest of Antioquia, the place where this megaproject has been localized. For this, it analyzes, from an ethnographical approach, some discourses and practices mobilized by the Company promoting this megaproject and by some State institutions to justify the implementation of this, despite the failures, risks and conflicts that are configured in the context of planning and execution of the works. More than energy and progress, Hidroituango has produced some “collateral” effects that have contributed, on the one hand, to expanding and strengthening the institutional power of the State in that territory and, on the other hand, to strengthening the socioeconomic structures that dominate the territory, the armed conflict and the extractivist model.

Keywords : armed conflicts; development projects; environmental effects; hydroelectric power stations; State.

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