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..., in order to enact a concrete imperial priority: growing cotton. One way the occupiers implemented this policy objective was through the design and construction of the Aswan Dam (1898 – 1902) by British engineers and British engineering firms. The engineers followed nineteenth-century hydraulic engineering...

...Sarah E. Vaughn This article charts the role damming practices play in rescaling the geopolitical interests of engineers in Guyana. It focuses on engineers’ responses to a disastrous flood in 1934, the first flood in their recorded history to compromise the East Demerara Water Conservancy. I argue...

... and Murderers among Us: History of Repression and Rebellion in Haiti under Dr. François Duvalier, 1962 – 1971 (2011); Peter Hallward's Damming the Flood: Haiti and the Politics of Containment (2010); Philippe Zacaïr's Haiti and the Haitian Diaspora in the Wider Caribbean (2011); and Haïti-Haitii? Philosophical...

... on the Conchos River in Chihuahua, La Boquilla hydroelectric dam came into service in the middle of a battlefield in 1915. Through the 1920s, in which there was virtually no Mexican state, La Boquilla primarily powered US-owned mining interests in the region. By the end of the decade, however, authorities had...

... problem-solving ideas from the dam builders across the construction site, all of which were conceptually embellished as “technological revolution” ( jishu geming ) in the official discourse when the dam was completed on July 1, 1958. 19 In a different fashion engendered by the same policy, Red Flag...

... perspective, providing a reading of the past that may help reframe how we think about one of the most significant natural resources in our world. We have included essays on waste management in India, dam building in nineteenth-­century Egypt, municipal water policy in Paris, and the contested water...

...: Four Monumental Projects That Changed the World . New York : Vintage . Hughes Thomas P. Mayntz Renate , eds. 1988 . The Development of Large Technical Systems . Frankfurt am Main : Campus Verlag . Isaacman Allen F. Isaacman Barbara S. . 2013 . Dams, Displacement...

... peoples against the building of the Ralco Dam. These films render the primary industries that have been at the center of extractive economies during the period of neoliberal violence since 1973. Fur- ther, these films are representative of a larger genre of global indigenous representa- tions...

... comfort in the idealization of a preindustrial era. Irrigation, however, offered a means to overcome these anxieties: it was “both about modern technology (‘drains, pumps, pipes and dams’) and about the dream of re-­creating an old-­world paradise.”87 Lands that are too wet have also been...

... funded dam in Koto Panjang, Riau, Sumatra, Indonesia. The dam will flood 10 villages, 300 hectares of protection forests and displace 4000 families and at least 30 elephants. The Overseas Economic Cooperation Fund of Japan is financing the project with US $290 million.” ...

..., did not necessarily imply defer- ence to mill owners. Direct conflict between artisans and mill owners occurred remarkably early. When the Slater Mill was built in 1793 it was necessary to build a second dam on the Blackstone a short distance upstream...

... Colombian artist, Carolina Caycedo, focuses her work on ecological matters, the impact of extractivism and large-scale dams, and the direct connection between human bodies and ecosystems. In her performance Geocoreografías Oritoguaz—descolonizando la Jagua ( fig. 7 ), 250 Colombian defenders against dams...

... OPPOSITION IN THE 1980s: ENVIRONMENTALISM AND DISSIDENCE IN HUNGARY The Hungarian environmental movement took off during the mid-1980s and comprised a significant part of the opposition to the state socialist government. Many Hungarians describe the mass demonstrations of 1988 against the damming...

... to believe, but Dutch queen Beatrix lives next door to Madame Tussaud. The newly designed exhibition moved in 1991 to a site that is virtually sacred in Amsterdam history: on the Dam Square, adjacent to the Royal Palace, residence of the queen, and originally constructed as the city hall beginning...

... in the Institute for Southern Studies at the Univer- sity of South Carolina. He specializes in the environmental and American Indian history of the American South and has a forthcoming book titled “In the Shadow of Removal: Histori- cal Memory, Indianness, and the Tellico Dam Project.” Kathryn Hicks...

... discipline has many scales: the individual organism, empire, in this case, over the desert. The imperial mind thought in terms a population, an ecosystem, the biosphere. Ecologists of conquest, dam building, irrigation see themselves working on any one of these levels, but development, and so...

... justice shut out those women who had been a crucial part of the movement. In the early 1980s Barbara Taylor, in Eve and the New Jerusalem, described the dam- age done to Chartism by men’s inability to take women’s concerns into account. Kesselman’s essay...

... dams and irrigation facilities, expanded markets, developed mines and timber concessions, built roads, railways and ports" (197). This litany should raise several ques- tions. Even if the architects of colonial policy sincerely believed these projects were for the good of the Filipinos...

... Dam” (1969). “SNCC Position Paper: Women in the Movement” (1965). Pat Mainardi, “The Politics of Housework” (1970). Berkeley Sister, ”To a White Male Radical” (1970). April 8 Video Screening: “Berkeley in the 60s” 421 PAC. 7:00pm. April 9 Identity and Difference: Radical Feminism...