The Struggle for Water

Released on by Wendy Nelson Espeland
preview-18

  • The Struggle for Water Book Detail

  • Author : Wendy Nelson Espeland
  • Release Date : 1998-09
  • Publisher : University of Chicago Press
  • Genre : Business & Economics
  • Pages : 312
  • ISBN 13 : 9780226217932
  • File Size : 75,75 MB
DOWNLOAD BOOK

The Struggle for Water by Wendy Nelson Espeland PDF Summary

Book Description: 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."

Disclaimer: www.yourbookbest.com does not own The Struggle for Water books pdf, neither created or scanned. We just provide the link that is already available on the internet, public domain and in Google Drive. If any way it violates the law or has any issues, then kindly mail us via contact us page to request the removal of the link.