FROM WATERSHED MOMENT TO HYDROSOCIAL MOVEMENT: PATAGONIA WITHOUT DAMS AND THE FREE-FLOWING RIVERS NETWORK IN CHILE

James J. A. Blair is Associate Professor in Geography and Anthropology at California State Polytechnic University, Pomona. Blair holds a Ph.D. in Anthropology from The Graduate Center, City University of New York. He is the author of Salvaging Empire: Sovereignty, Natural Resources, and Environmental Science in the South Atlantic (Cornell University Press, 2023). In addition to his research on energy, water, and environmental justice in the Americas, Blair has professional experience in environmental policy as an International Advocate for the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC). Grant M. Gutierrez currently serves as the Duwamish Valley Program Coordinator at the City of Seattle, focused on equitable development and environmental justice for communities living along the banks of the Duwamish River. Gutierrez received a Ph.D. in Ecology, Evolution, Environment & Society (EEES) from Dartmouth College, where he was trained as a political ecologist. His research draws on participatory ethnographic methods, watershed restoration, floodplain management, and environmental justice. Ramón Balcázar M. is a Ph.D. student in Rural Development at the Autonomous Metropolitan University of Mexico—UAM and Coordinator at OPSAL (Plurinational Observatory of Andean Salt Flats). Taking a participatory approach, his militant research is situated at the intersection between multilateral climate policies and the subsequent expansion of green extractivism throughout Indigenous/rural territories in the Andean Puna. Areas of expertise are rural development, agroecology, neoextractivism, climate justice, socioenviron-mental movements, just transition, and post-development.

James J. A. Blair is Associate Professor in Geography and Anthropology at California State Polytechnic University, Pomona. Blair holds a Ph.D. in Anthropology from The Graduate Center, City University of New York. He is the author of Salvaging Empire: Sovereignty, Natural Resources, and Environmental Science in the South Atlantic (Cornell University Press, 2023). In addition to his research on energy, water, and environmental justice in the Americas, Blair has professional experience in environmental policy as an International Advocate for the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC). Grant M. Gutierrez currently serves as the Duwamish Valley Program Coordinator at the City of Seattle, focused on equitable development and environmental justice for communities living along the banks of the Duwamish River. Gutierrez received a Ph.D. in Ecology, Evolution, Environment & Society (EEES) from Dartmouth College, where he was trained as a political ecologist. His research draws on participatory ethnographic methods, watershed restoration, floodplain management, and environmental justice. Ramón Balcázar M. is a Ph.D. student in Rural Development at the Autonomous Metropolitan University of Mexico—UAM and Coordinator at OPSAL (Plurinational Observatory of Andean Salt Flats). Taking a participatory approach, his militant research is situated at the intersection between multilateral climate policies and the subsequent expansion of green extractivism throughout Indigenous/rural territories in the Andean Puna. Areas of expertise are rural development, agroecology, neoextractivism, climate justice, socioenviron-mental movements, just transition, and post-development.

James J. A. Blair is Associate Professor in Geography and Anthropology at California State Polytechnic University, Pomona. Blair holds a Ph.D. in Anthropology from The Graduate Center, City University of New York. He is the author of Salvaging Empire: Sovereignty, Natural Resources, and Environmental Science in the South Atlantic (Cornell University Press, 2023). In addition to his research on energy, water, and environmental justice in the Americas, Blair has professional experience in environmental policy as an International Advocate for the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC). Grant M. Gutierrez currently serves as the Duwamish Valley Program Coordinator at the City of Seattle, focused on equitable development and environmental justice for communities living along the banks of the Duwamish River. Gutierrez received a Ph.D. in Ecology, Evolution, Environment & Society (EEES) from Dartmouth College, where he was trained as a political ecologist. His research draws on participatory ethnographic methods, watershed restoration, floodplain management, and environmental justice. Ramón Balcázar M. is a Ph.D. student in Rural Development at the Autonomous Metropolitan University of Mexico—UAM and Coordinator at OPSAL (Plurinational Observatory of Andean Salt Flats). Taking a participatory approach, his militant research is situated at the intersection between multilateral climate policies and the subsequent expansion of green extractivism throughout Indigenous/rural territories in the Andean Puna. Areas of expertise are rural development, agroecology, neoextractivism, climate justice, socioenviron-mental movements, just transition, and post-development.