Gender Issues in the Madeira River Dam Project

I presented a paper on the issues of violence against women at the 9th Annual Women’s Studies Student Conference, “Cleaning Up the Down Economy: Women, Gender, and the Global Economy,” on Tuesday, March 23rd, 2010, held at Florida International University. I briefly outline various forms of violence against women in relation to the UN Millennium Development Goals and posit that the inability to meet the latter disqualifies the view that the Madeira river dam project is sustainable development that represents progress and generates social capital.

Publication forthcoming in the Making Waves journal.