Amelie Huber is an ENTITLE fellow and PhD candidate at Boğazici University, Istanbul and at the Institute for Environmental Science and Technology (ICTA) of the Autonomous University of Barcelona (UAB). In her research she looks at new forms of hydropower development emerging in marginal mountain areas of Northeast India and Turkey under the banner of 'green economy'. Through a comparative analysis of case studies this research engages with new processes of neoliberal resource commodification through private and public-private ventures, associated ecological distribution and valuation conflicts, and the struggles between state actors, citizen groups and social movements over the de- and re-politicization of environmental governance.
This project also builds on previous research carried out for her MSc thesis, where she investigated state-society interactions (particularly technologies of power and modes of contestation), democratic transition processes and social movement formation in the context of hydropower development activities in Sikkim, Northeast India. Amelie holds an MSc in Land and Water Management from Wageningen University and a BA in Development Studies and South Asian Studies from the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), University of London.
Dams and development, water conflicts, resource grabbing, social movements, political ecology, critical development studies.