Description
South-Eastern Europe (SEE) has been presented as the new frontier for renewable energy production – especially from hydro and solar – creating new water-energy-nature nexuses and contestations. As an energy systems transition, hydropower is becoming a salient example of the uneven impacts of new 'green' infrastructures. Meanwhile, ecofeminist literature is increasingly attending to the way in which the domestic can be a site, not only of vulnerability, but also of agency. Social reproduction practices both for survival and (by the same token) for revolutionary world-building can envision radically different solutions to our collective ecological peril. The presentation focuses on how recent hydropolitics in SEE has created new landscapes of resistance. The presentation aims to generate a conversation among work on gendered vulnerability, precarious movements and domestic activism, to propose further research on ecofeminist agencies.
