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    • TA1 – X-disciplinarity in Research and Action
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    • TA2 – Water and Megaprojects
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    • TA3 – Urban Water Cycle and Essential Public Services
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    • TA4 – Transboundary Waters
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    • TA5 – Water and Health
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    • TA6 – Hydrosocial Basins, Territories, and Spaces
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    • TA7 – Art, Communication, Culture, and Education
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    • TA8 – Water-related Disasters
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    • TA9 – Water and Production
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    • TA10 – Water and Violence
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    • Regular International Meetings
      • WATERLAT-GOBACIT XI, Leon, Guanajuato, 2022 Virtual Activities
        • Co-ordination and Programme Organization 2021
      • WATERLAT-GOBACIT X, Concepcion, 2019
        • Co-ordination and Programme Organization 2019
      • WATERLAT-GOBACIT IX, João Pessoa, 2018
        • Co-ordination and Programme Organization 2018
        • WATERLAT-GOBACIT IX, Preparatory Events
          • Democratization of Water Politics and Management: a Transdisciplinary Challenge
      • WATERLAT-GOBACIT VIII, San Jose, 2017
        • Declaration of the VIII International Meeting
        • Co-ordination and Programme Organization
        • Logo VIII Meeting
      • WATERLAT-GOBACIT VII, Guadalajara, 2015
      • WATERLAT-GOBACIT VI, Manizales, 2014
      • WATERLAT V, Quito, 2013
      • WATERLAT IV, Buenos Aires, 2012
      • WATERLAT III, Mexico City, 2011
      • WATERLAT II, Sao Paulo, 2010
      • WATERLAT I – Barcelona, 2009
    • Special Public Meetings
      • 2011 International Workshop on Water Futures
        • WATERLAT-GOBACIT 2011 International Workshop Programme
      • FLACSO’s Latin American and Caribbean Congress 2010
  • Projects
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  • Publications
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    • Books
      • Democracy and Global Water Politics in Historical Perspective. Against Water Privatization
      • Social Organization, Management, and Defense of Water in Mexico (in Spanish)
      • Small Hydroelectric Plants in Brazil. Legislation, conflicts, and impacts (in Portuguese)
      • The Right to Water as Public Policy in Latin America: a Theoretical and Empirical Exploration (in Spanish)
      • The river recovering its riverbed. Spoils, and resistances in conflicts over water-land-territory under neoliberalism in Chile (in Spanish.
      • The Mathematics of Management and the Muddy Soul: a critique of mediation in mining licensing, and related disasters (in Portuguese)
      • Community Water Management. A study looking at memories, social organization, and values (in Spanish)
      • Water Territorialities. Knowledge and Action to Build the Future that we Want (in Spanish and Portuguese)
      • Sewer of Progress. Corporations, institutionalized corruption, and the struggle over the Santiago river
      • The Disaster and the Veiled Chaos. The individual, inter-personal and collective coping of the elderly and their families (in Portuguese)
      • Water, Power and Rationalization in the Province of Mendoza, Argentina (in Spanish)
      • Water and Mining Mega-projects in Latin America (in Spanish)
      • Power Relations in Community Water Management. The Territory and the Social as Forces (in Spanish)
      • Defending Territory and Dignity. Emotions and Cultural Change in the Struggles against Dams in Spain and Mexico [in Spanish]
      • The Tension between Environmental and Social Justice in Latin America: the Case of Water Management [in Portuguese and Spanish]
      • Water and Democracy in Latin America (in Portuguese and Spanish)
      • The Right to Water as Public Policy in Latin America: a Theoretical and Empirical Exploration (in Portuguese)
        • Presentation of the book The Right to Water, Brasilia, 10 September 2015
      • Public Policy and Management of Water and Sanitation Services (Portuguese version)
      • Water and Sanitation Services: Public Policy and Management
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  • Student Prize
    • 2020 WATERLAT-GOBACIT Student Prize
    • 2019 WATERLAT-GOBACIT Student Prize
    • 2018 WATERLAT-GOBACIT Student Prize
    • 2017 WATERLAT-GOBACIT Student Prize
    • 2016 WATERLAT-GOBACIT Student Prize
    • 2015 WATERLAT-GOBACIT Student Prize
    • 2014 WATERLAT-GOBACIT Student Prize
  • Teaching
    • 2025 International-inter-institutional Postgraduate Seminar: Political Ecology of Water in inter-and transdisciplinary perspective
      • 2025 Seminar Opening Session
    • WATERLAT-GOBACIT-PSI Specialization Course
  • Short-video Competition
    • 2025 Short-video Competition
      • 2019 Short-video Competition – Evaluation and Competition Rules
        • 2020 Short-video Competition
          • 2019 Short-video Competition
          • 2020 Short-video Competition – Evaluation and Competition Rules
            • 2017-18 Short-video Competition
              • 2017-18 Short-video Competition – Evaluation Commission and Competition Rules
    • 2016-17 Short-video Competition
      • 2016-17 Short-video Competition – Evaluation Commission and competition rules
    • 2015 Short Video Competition
      • 2015 Short-video Competition – Evaluation Commission and competition rules
  • WATERLAT-GOBACIT NETWORK WORKING PAPERS
    • Volume 9 – 2022
    • Vol9, No 3
    • Vol9, No 2
    • Vol9, No1
    • Volume 8 – 2021
    • Vol8, No4
    • Vol.8, No3
    • Vol.8, No2
    • Vol. 8, No 1
    • Volume 7 – 2020
      • Vol. 7, No 4
      • Vol. 7, No 3
      • Vol. 7, No 2
      • Vol. 7, No 1
    • Volume 6 – 2019
      • Vol. 6 No 5
      • Vol. 6 No 4
      • Vol. 6 No 3
      • Vol. 6 No 2
      • Vol. 6 No 1
    • Volume 5 – 2018
      • Vol. 5, No. 4
      • Vol. 5, No. 3
      • Vol. 5, No. 2
      • Vol. 5, No. 1
    • Volume 4 – 2017
      • Vol. 4 No. 5
      • Vol. 4 No. 4
      • Vol. 4 No. 3
      • Vol. 4 No. 2
      • Vol. 4, No. 1
    • WATERLAT-GOBACIT WORKING PAPERS – ISSUES PUBLISHED
    • WATERLAT-GOBACIT NETWORK WORKING PAPERS – ARTICLES PUBLISHED TO BE INCLUDED IN FORTHCOMING ISSUES
Barra, Barbara Furtado

Barra, Barbara Furtado

PhD in Collective Health, Postgraduate Programme in Collective Health(PPGSCO) Rene Rachou Institute, Oswaldo Cruz Foundation(FIocruz Minas), Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais. Thesis title: "Privatisation of Water and Sanitation Services in Brazil. A critical analysis from a political ecological perspective". Supervisor: Leo Heller.

WATERLAT-GOBACIT is a self-funded Network.