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Power in the Southern Cone borderlands : an anthropology of development practice / Carmen A. Ferradás.
Lippincott Library HD9685.A74 E584 1998
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Ferradás, Carmen A.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Entidad Binacional Yacyretá.
- Hydroelectric power plants--Social aspects--Argentina.
- Hydroelectric power plants.
- Hydroelectric power plants--Social aspects--Brazil.
- Hydroelectric power plants--Social aspects--Paraguay.
- Hydroelectric power plants--Social aspects.
- Paraguay.
- Brazil.
- Argentina.
- Physical Description:
- xiii, 226 pages : maps ; 25 cm
- Other Title:
- Anthropology of development practice
- Place of Publication:
- Westport, Conn. : Bergin & Garvey, 1998.
- Summary:
- Seeks to broaden debates on development by exploring how different local, regional, and national actors respond to the changing discourses and practices of development through examining the case of the Yacyreta hydroelectric project built jointly by Argentina and Paraguay.
- Contents:
- Chapter 2 Practicing Development 17
- Chapter 3 Regional Struggles for Hegemony 35
- Chapter 4 Damming the Region, Empowering the Nation: The Yacyreta Hydroelectric Project 59
- Chapter 5 The Encounter of the Relocated Population and the Relocation Agency 81
- Chapter 6 Constructing the Power of a Dam 101
- Chapter 7 Knowledge and Power Struggles in the Relocation Agency 123
- Chapter 8 Processes of Communication and Miscommunication 145
- Chapter 9 Mediating on the People's Behalf? 159
- Chapter 10 People Resist at Last 175
- Chapter 11 Power: The Dam and the People 195.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [203]-218) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0897895606
- OCLC:
- 37761904
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