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Anthropogenic Rivers - The Production of Uncertainty in Lao Hydropower (Hardcover)
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Anthropogenic Rivers - The Production of Uncertainty in Lao Hydropower (Hardcover)
Series: Expertise: Cultures and Technologies of Knowledge
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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. Far from the authoritative expertise
that characterized classical modernist hydropower, sustainable
development in Laos has been characterized by a shift from the risk
politics of the 1990s to an ontological politics in which the
institutional conditions of infrastructure investment are
pervasively undermined by sophisticated 'hactivism.' Whitington
demonstrates how late industrial environments are infused with
uncertainty inherent in the anthropogenic ecologies themselves.
Whereas 'anthropogenic' usually describes human-induced
environmental change, it can also show how new capacities for being
human are generated when people live in ecologies shot through with
uncertainty. Implementing what Foucault called a "historical
ontology of ourselves," Anthropogenic Rivers formulates a new
materialist critique of the dirty ecologies of late industrialism
by pinpointing the opportunistic, ambitious and speculative
ontology of capitalist natures.
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