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Gendered Space and Labour Control in a Chinese State-Sponsored Hydroelectric Project in Ecuador

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Critical geographers have been exploring how social actors organise space to sustain unequal social relations and how, in turn, these relations shape the space and politics around them. In examining how ‘place becomes race’, Razack (2018: 114) elaborates on how settler-colonial projects remake the conquered land into white settler society by producing segregated spaces and racial hierarchies. Based on Henri Lefebvre’s theorisation of spatial politics, this approach shows that racial hierarchies operate with gender and class domination while simultaneously constituting and reinforcing each other. In analysing spatial politics, Lefebvre identifies three elements in the production of social space—that is, conceived, perceived, and experienced (or lived) space. First, conceived space, or representations of space, refers to how planners and corporate entities conceive of and plan spatial organisation. Second, perceived space emerges from the everyday routines and spatial practices that orga

Gendered Space and Labour Control in a Chinese State-Sponsored Hydroelectric Project in Ecuador Skip to main content The layout of the San Luis Camp, shown under its pseudonym, ‘San Jorge Village’. Source: Author. Gendered Space and Labour Control in a Chinese State-Sponsored Hydroelectric Project in Ecuador Gendered Space and Labour Control in a Chinese State-Sponsored Hydroelectric Project in Ecuador January 25, 2023 | Essays Rui Jie Peng Lafayette College, Pennsylvania Share Critical geographers have been exploring how social actors organise space to sustain unequal social relations and how

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