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The Struggle for Water (Paperback, 2nd Ed.)
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The Struggle for Water (Paperback, 2nd Ed.)
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Nearly fifty years ago, the Bureau of Reclamation proposed building
a dam at the confluence of two rivers in Central Arizona. While the
dam would bring valuable water to this arid plain, it would also
destroy a wildlife habitat, flood archaeological sites, and force
the Yavapai Indians off their ancestral home. "The Struggle for
Water" is not only the fascinating story of this controversial and
ultimately thwarted public works project but also a study of
rationality as a cultural, organizational, and political construct.
In the 1970s, the three groups most intimately involved in the Orme
Dam--younger Bureau of Reclamation employees committed to "rational
choice" decision making, older Bureau engineers committed to the
dam, and the Yavapai community--all found themselves and their
values transformed by their struggles. Wendy Nelson Espeland lays
bare the relations between interests and identities that emerged
during the conflict, creating a contemporary tale of power and
colonization, bureaucracies and democratic practice, that asks the
crucial question of what it means to be "rational."
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