Large river systems throughout the planet have been dramatically
transformed due to river control projects such as large dams and
embankments. Unlike other major human impacts like anthropogenic
climate change, the alteration of river systems has been deliberate
and planned by a small, powerful set of experts. Taking India as a
case study, this book examines the way experts transform the planet
through their discourse by their advocacy of river projects. This
book identifies the spatial aspects of the norms through which the
ideal river and the deficient river in need of control are
produced. The role of governmental rationality in explaining the
seemingly irrational and counter-productive effects of large
projects like Kosi river embankments is considered. Finally using
autobiographical material, the subjectivity of expert advice is
examined, questioning its presumed objectivity. By examining the
different subjective stances arising from the same body of
expertise, this book discusses the consequences this has for river
control specifically and for the relation between expertise and
environmental change in general.
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