The Struggle for Water
Politics, Rationality, and Identity in the American Southwest
Espeland, Wendy Nelson
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BOOK SUMMARY
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
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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."
BOOK EXCERPTS
1 map, 2 line drawings
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Preface and Acknowledgments1. Contested Rationalities2. Nature by Design: The Bureau of Reclamation's Western Conquest3. The Old Guard: Stand by Your Dam4. The New Guard: Agents of Rationality, Arbiters of Democracy5. Views from the Reservation: The Politics and Perspective of Yavapai People6. Rationality, Form, and PowerReferencesAbbreviationsPrimary Documents and Printed SourcesSecondary SourcesIndex
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MORE BOOK INFO
ISBN: 0226217949
ISBN(13-digit): 9780226217949
Dewey Decimal: 333.91/15/0979
Library of Congress: 98004863
Book Publisher: Univ of Chicago Pr
Language: ENG
Binding: Sewn
No. of Pages: 256
Paper Weight (lb): 0.95
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