Anthropogenic rivers : the production of uncertainty in Lao hydropower /

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"This ethnography of the forms of reason, power, and knowledge of Lao hydropower development investigates how industry actors formulate an ontology of nature primarily through recourse to American management philosophy"--

Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Whitington, Jerome, 1974- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Ithaca : Cornell University, 2018
Series:Expertise (Ithaca, N.Y.)
Subjects:
Ethnology > Laos.
Human ecology > Laos.
Sustainable development > Social aspects > Laos.
Hydroelectric power plants > Environmental aspects > Laos.
Hydroelectric power plants > Social aspects > Laos.
Dams > Environmental aspects > Laos.
Dams > Social aspects > Laos.
Ethnologie > Laos.
Écologie humaine > Laos.
Développement durable > Aspect social > Laos.
Centrales hydroélectriques > Aspect de l'environnement > Laos.
Centrales hydroélectriques > Aspect social > Laos.
Barrages > Aspect de l'environnement > Laos.
Barrages > Aspect social > Laos.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Public Policy > Cultural Policy.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Anthropology > Cultural.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Popular Culture.
HISTORY > Asia > Southeast Asia.
Dams > Environmental aspects
Dams > Social aspects
Ethnology
Human ecology
Hydroelectric power plants > Environmental aspects
Hydroelectric power plants > Social aspects
Sustainable development > Social aspects
Laos
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction : the production of uncertainty
  • Interlude : on the postcolony (engineering)
  • Hydropower's circle of influence
  • Interlude : what is a dam?
  • Vulnerable at every joint
  • Interlude : intimacy (vetting)
  • Performance-based management
  • Interlude : the method of uncertainty
  • The ethics of document engineering
  • Interlude : interview notes (lightly edited)
  • Anthropogenic rivers
  • Conclusion : figuring the anthropogenic

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