Hydropolitics (eBook)

The Itaipu Dam, Sovereignty, and the Engineering of Modern South America

Christine Folch (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2019
272 Seiten
Princeton University Press (Verlag)
978-0-691-19752-4 (ISBN)

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An in-depth look at the people and institutions connected with the Itaipu Dam, the world's biggest producer of renewable energyHydropolitics is a groundbreaking investigation of the world's largest power plant and the ways the energy we use shapes politics and economics. Itaipu Binational Hydroelectric Dam straddles the Parana River border that divides the two countries that equally co-own the dam, Brazil and Paraguay. It generates the carbon-free electricity that powers industry in both the giant of South America and one of the smallest economies of the region. Based on unprecedented access to energy decision makers, Christine Folch reveals how Paraguayans harness the dam to engineer wealth, power, and sovereignty, demonstrating how energy capture influences social structures.During the dam's construction under the right-wing military government of Alfredo Stroessner and later during the leftist presidency of liberation theologian Fernando Lugo, the dam became central to debates about development, governance, and prosperity. Dams not only change landscapes; Folch asserts that the properties of water, transmuted by dams, change states. She argues that the dam converts water into electricity and money to produce hydropolitics through its physical infrastructure, the financial liquidity of energy monies, and the international legal agreements managing transboundary water resources between Brazil and Paraguay, and their neighbors Argentina, Bolivia, and Uruguay.Looking at the fraught political discussions about the future of the world's single largest producer of renewable energy, Hydropolitics explores how this massive public works project touches the lives of all who are linked to it.

Autor

Christine Folch is assistant professor of cultural anthropology and environmental science and policy at Duke University. Twitter @christinefolch

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 3.9.2019
• Reihe/Serie: Princeton Studies in Culture and Technology
• Reihe/Serie: Princeton Studies in Culture and Technology
• Zusatzinfo: 12 b/w illus. 5 tables. 3 maps
• Verlagsort: Princeton
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Ökologie / Naturschutz
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften ► Geowissenschaften ► Hydrologie / Ozeanografie
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
• Themenwelt: Wirtschaft ► Volkswirtschaftslehre
• Schlagworte: activism • Adobe • Adviser • Agribusiness • Agriculture • Alfredo Stroessner • Aquifer • Bolivia • border • Calculation • Capitalism • climate change • compound interest • Currency • debt • downriver • Dutch Disease • Economic Development • Economic Growth • Economic Integration • economist • economy • Ecuador • electricity • electrification • Eletrobras • Elite • Employment • energy crisis • Energy development • Energy industry • Energy Market • Energy Policy • Engineering • Evo Morales • executive director • Expense • Federico Franco • Fernando Henrique Cardoso • Fernando Lugo • Fossil fuel • Funding • Globalization • global warming • Governance • hegemony • Hydroelectricity • hydropower • income • industrialisation • Infrastructure • Inter-American Development Bank • Interest Rate • International Law • International Relations • Jeffrey Sachs • Latin America • Liberation Theology • Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva • Market Price • MERCOSUR • middle class • Ministry of Foreign Relations (Peru) • national security • nation state • Natural gas • natural resource • Neoliberalism • newspaper • obstacle • Paraguay • Participatory Democracy • Payment • Peak oil • Political Ecology • Political Economy • Politician • Politics • Precedent • Privatization • public utility • Regional Integration • renewable energy • Requirement • salary • Scarcity • South America • Sovereignty • state actor • Supply (economics) • tariff • Tax • Tom Boellstorff • Treaty • Unemployment • United States Dollar • Wealth • welfare • World Bank • year
• ISBN-10: 0-691-19752-0 / 0691197520
• ISBN-13: 978-0-691-19752-4 / 9780691197524