Proyectos territoriales antagónicos y anticooperación simbólica en las megainfraestructuras sudamericanas

The research "Antagonistic Territorial Projects and Symbolic Anticooperation in South American mega-infrastructures" aims to understand the confrontation of the various existing territorial projects in South America, as well as to demonstrate interferences in the welfare of potentially affected communities caused by integration megaprojects of economic infrastructures. From a multidisciplinary theoretical and methodological framework, the study proposes an evaluation of the progress of initiatives such as IIRSA and COSIPLAN, considering the various actors involved and their contradictions, as well as the languages of evaluation used to legitimize capitalist territoriality. The role of European capital in South American mega-infrastructures, as well as its financialization, is also examined. The case study chosen is the Madeira River Hydroelectric Complex, located in the Bolivian-Brazilian Amazon. Starting from the tension caused by the different territorialities involved, at local and regional levels; the research aims to offer an overall assessment of the antagonism, assessing its technical and symbolic force, determining the presence of symbolic forms of anticooperation and forms of dissent. It is made obvious how the latter forms go beyond resistance and articulate to confront broader processes of accumulation by dispossession, carried out by transnational corporations.