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Auteur(s) : Bsumek, Erika Marie
Titre(s) : The foundations of Glen Canyon Dam [Texte imprimé] : infrastructures of dispossession on the Colorado Plateau / Erika Marie Bsumek
Édition : 1st ed.
Publication : Austin : University of Texas Press, copyright 2023
Description matérielle : 1 vol. (xiii, 277 pages) : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm
Note(s) : Includes bibliographical references p. 240-258 and index
"The second highest concrete-arch dam in the United States, Glen Canyon Dam was built
to control the flow of the Colorado River throughout the Western United States. Completed
in 1966, the dam continues to serve as a water storage facility for residents, industries,
and agricultural use across the American West and to generate hydroelectric power
for residents in Colorado, Wyoming, New Mexico, Utah, Nevada, Arizona, and Nebraska.
More than a massive piece of physical infrastructure and an engineering feat, the
dam also exposes the cultural structures and complex regional power relations that
both relied on Indigenous knowledge and labor while simultaneously dispossessing the
Indigenous communities of their land and resources across the Colorado Plateau. Erika
Marie Bsumek reorients the story of the dam to reveal a pattern of Indigenous erasure
by weaving together the stories of religious settlers and Indigenous peoples, engineers
and biologists, and politicians and spiritual leaders. Delving into the role that
each of these groups played in the establishment of the Glen Canyon Dam exposes the
dynamics of settler colonialism in the building of the dam as well as the layers of
the ongoing, systematic dispossession of Indigenous people. Infrastructures of dispossession
teach us that we cannot tell the stories of religious colonization, scientific exploration,
regional engineering, environmental transformation, or political deal-making as disconnected
from Indigenous history. The Foundations of Glen Canyon Dam is a provocative and essential
piece of modern history, particularly as water in the West becomes increasingly scarce
and fights over access to it unfold"
Sujet(s) : Indiens d'Amérique -- Terres -- Colorado, Plateau du (États-Unis) -- 1945-....
Gestion des ressources en eau -- Colorado, Plateau du (États-Unis) -- 1945-....
Colonisation intérieure -- Colorado, Plateau du (États-Unis) -- 1945-....
Glen Canyon Dam (Ariz., États-Unis)
Identifiants, prix et caractéristiques : ISBN 9781477303818. - ISBN 1477303812. - ISBN 9781477326589 (erroné). - ISBN 9781477326596
(erroné)
Identifiant de la notice : ark:/12148/cb47238888s
Notice n° :
FRBNF47238888
(notice reprise d'un réservoir extérieur)
