| 书目名称 | River Control in India |
| 副标题 | Spatial, Governmenta |
| 编辑 | Ravi Baghel |
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| 概述 | Demonstrates the spatial and material effects of expert discourse, thereby extending more conventional Foucauldian methods in the Social Sciences.Subjectivity of expertise is an overlooked and fruitfu |
| 丛书名称 | Advances in Asian Human-Environmental Research |
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| 描述 | 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 discussesthe consequences this has for river control specifically and for the relation between expertise and environmental change in general. |
| 出版日期 | Book 2014 |
| 关键词 | Governmentality; Large Dams; Political Ecology; South Asia; water policy |
| 版次 | 1 |
| doi | https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-04432-3 |
| isbn_softcover | 978-3-319-38169-5 |
| isbn_ebook | 978-3-319-04432-3Series ISSN 1879-7180 Series E-ISSN 1879-7199 |
| issn_series | 1879-7180 |
| copyright | Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2014 |
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