Contested Knowledges: Water Conflicts on Large Dams and Mega-Hydraulic Development

• Main Author: Shah, Esha (auth)
• Other Authors: Boelens, Rutgerd (auth), Bruins, Bert (auth)
• Format: Electronic Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: MDPI - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute 2019
• Subjects: Environmental economics; n/a; politicized collective identity; first nations; socio-technical imaginaries; dam; political ecology; STS; irrigation; contested knowledge; negotiation; Guatemala; social construction of technology; indigenous peoples; multi-actor multi-scalar alliances; vernacular statecraft; compensation measures; modernist traditions; hydropower development; agonistic unity; Ecuador; anti-dam resistance movements; fantasy; environmental governance; collective action; modernity; depoliticization; British Columbia; hydraulic utopia; A.O. Hirschman; megadams; India; Canada; hiding hand; large dams; Jacques Lacan; commensuration; DR Congo; Málaga; technological design; Peru; knowledge systems; manufactured ignorance; knowledge politics; Himalayas; San Lorenzo irrigation project; politics of the governed; North Sikkim; uncertainty; Bolivia; hydrosocial territory; psychoanalysis; marginalization; territorial control; mega-dam; hazard risk; UnGovernance; hydropolitics; expectations; power; socioenvironmental impacts; socio-economic impacts; public knowledge controversies; mega-hydraulic projects; hydropower; environmental impacts; Site C; knowledge encounters; dam safety; Dzumsa; energy policy; anti-dam movement; hydroelectric megaprojects; Spain; hydraulic projects; Chixoy irrigation project; co-creation; Mekong River Basin; dehumanizing rationality; hydroelectric development; Inga; territory; knowledge arenas
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Water acquisition, storage, allocation and distribution are intensely contested in our society, whether, for instance, such issues pertain to a conflict between upstream and downstream farmers located on a small stream or to a large dam located on the border of two nations. Water conflicts are mostl...