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Auteur(s) : Folch, Christine
Titre(s) : Hydropolitics [Texte imprimé] : the Itaipu dam, sovereignty, and the engineering of modern South America / Christine Folch
Publication : Princeton, New Jersey : Princeton University press, copyright 2019
Description matérielle : 1 vol. (xv, 250 pages) : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
Collection : Princeton studies in culture and technology
Lien à la collection : Princeton studies in culture and technology
Note(s) : Includes bibliographical references and index
"Hydropolitics is a groundbreaking investigation of the world's largest power plant
and the ways the energy we use shapes politics and economics. Itaipu Binational Hydroelectric
Dam straddles the Paraná River border that divides the two countries that equally
co-own the dam, Brazil and Paraguay. It generates the carbon-free electricity that
powers industry in both the giant of South America and one of the smallest economies
of the region. Based on unprecedented access to energy decision makers, Christine
Folch reveals how Paraguayans harness the dam to engineer wealth, power, and sovereignty,
demonstrating how energy capture influences social structures. During the dam's construction
under the right-wing military government of Alfredo Stroessner and later during the
leftist presidency of liberation theologian Fernando Lugo, the dam became central
to debates about development, governance, and prosperity. Dams not only change landscapes;
Folch asserts that the properties of water, transmuted by dams, change states. She
argues that the dam converts water into electricity and money to produce hydropolitics
through its physical infrastructure, the financial liquidity of energy monies, and
the international legal agreements managing transboundary water resources between
Brazil and Paraguay, and their neighbors Argentina, Bolivia, and Uruguay. Looking
at the fraught political discussions about the future of the world's single largest
producer of renewable energy, Hydropolitics explores how this massive public works
project touches the lives of all who are linked to it."
Sujet(s) : Plantes -- Applications industrielles -- Paraguay
Itaipu, Barrage d' -- Aspect politique -- Paraguay
Itaipu, Barrage d' -- Aspect politique -- Brésil
Identifiants, prix et caractéristiques : ISBN 069118660X. - ISBN 9780691186603. - ISBN 9780691186597. - ISBN 0691186596 (rel.)
Identifiant de la notice : ark:/12148/cb45861840g
Notice n° :
FRBNF45861840
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