Anthropogenic Rivers: The Production of Uncertainty in Lao Hydropower
(Part of the Expertise: Cultures and Technologies of Knowledge Series)
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In the 2000s, Laos was treated as a model country for the efficacy of privatized, "sustainable" hydropower projects as viable options for World Bank-led development. By viewing hydropower as a process that creates ecologically uncertain environments, Jerome Whitington reveals how new forms of managerial care have emerged in the context of a privatized dam project successfully targeted by transnational activists. Based on ethnographic work inside...
Format:Hardcover
Language:English
ISBN:1501730908
ISBN13:9781501730900
Release Date:January 2019
Publisher:Cornell University Press
Length:288 Pages
Weight:1.31 lbs.
Dimensions:0.8" x 6.0" x 9.0"
Age Range:18 years and up
Grade Range:Postsecondary and higher
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