Anthropogenic Rivers: The Production of Uncertainty in Lao Hydropower

by Jerome Whitington

Book Overview

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: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1501730916
• ISBN13: 9781501730917
• Release Date: January 2019
• Publisher: Cornell University Press
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 0.94 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher