Flooded : : Development, Democracy, and Brazil’s Belo Monte Dam /

Flooded : : Development, Democracy, and Brazil’s Belo Monte Dam / / Peter Taylor Klein.

In the middle of the twentieth century, governments ignored the negative effects of large-scale infrastructure projects. In recent decades, many democratic countries have continued to use dams to promote growth, but have also introduced accompanying programs to alleviate these harmful consequences o...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE COMPLETE 2022 English
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Klein, Peter Taylor,
Place / Publishing House:New Brunswick, NJ : : Rutgers University Press, , [2022]
©2022
Year of Publication:2022
Language:English
Series:Nature, Society, and Culture
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Physical Description:1 online resource (232 p.) :; 11 b&w images, 1 table
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • CONTENTS
  • PROLOGUE
  • INTRODUCTION
  • Part I HYDROPOWER, RESISTANCE, AND THE STATE
  • 1 • DAMS AND DEVELOPMENT
  • 2 • BOOMS, BUSTS, AND COLLECTIVE MOBILIZATION ALONG THE TRANSAMAZON
  • 3 • DEMOCRATIC DEVELOPMENTALISM
  • Part II AN ETHNOGRAPHY OF DAM BUILDING
  • 4 • THE LIVING PROCESS
  • 5 • THE FIGHT FOR RECOGNITION
  • 6 • THE LAW, ACTIVISM, AND LEGITIMACY
  • CONCLUSION
  • ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
  • LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS
  • NOTES
  • INDEX
  • ABOUT THE AUTHOR

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