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Anthropogenic Rivers
ISBN-13:
9781501730931
Veröffentl:
2019
Seiten:
288
Autor:
Jerome Whitington
Serie:
Expertise: Cultures and Technologies of Knowledge
eBook Typ:
EPUB
eBook Format:
EPUB
Kopierschutz:
2 - DRM Adobe
Sprache:
Englisch
Beschreibung:
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 the hydropower company, as well as with Laotians affected by the dam, he investigates how managers, technicians and consultants grapple with unfamiliar environmental obligations through new infrastructural configurations, locally-inscribed ethical practices, and forms of flexible experimentation informed by American management theory.
PrefaceAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: The Production of UncertaintyInterlude. On the Postcolony (Engineering)Hydropower's Circle of InfluenceInterlude. What Is a Dam?Vulnerable at Every JointInterlude. Intimacy (Vetting)3. Performance-Based ManagementInterlude. The Method of Uncertainty4. The Ethics of Document EngineeringInterlude. Interview Notes (Lightly Edited)5. Anthropogenic RiversConclusion: Figuring the AnthropogenicNotesBibliographyIndex
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