Where Rivers Meet the Sea - Stephanie Kane

Where Rivers Meet the Sea

The Political Ecology of Water

(Autor)

Buch | Hardcover
246 Seiten
2012
Temple University Press,U.S. (Verlag)
978-1-4399-0930-0 (ISBN)
83,55 inkl. MwSt
A creative, narrative approach to environmental destruction in urban waterscapes, focusing on neighborhood activists who pressure their governments to follow existing law

Stephanie C. Kane is Associate Professor of Criminal Justice at Indiana University with affiliations in anthropology, folklore, and gender studies. She is author of The Phantom Gringo Boat: Shamanic Discourse and Development in Panama and AIDS Alibis: Sex, Drugs, and Crime in the Americas (Temple). She is coeditor of Crime's Power: Anthropologists and the Ethnography of Crime.

List of Figures
Acknowledgments
List of Abbreviations

1 Introduction

PART I Salvador da Bahia, Brazil
2 Sense and Science at the Lake of Dark Waters
3 Dune Shenanigans and Rebellious Festival Memories
4 Of Sewage, Sacrifice, and Sacred Springs
Coda: The Assassination of Antonio Conceição Reis

PART II Buenos Aires, Argentina
5 Water History, Water Activism
6 Iconic Bridges of la Boca and Madero (Dereliction as Opportunity)
7 Neighbors Fight to Reverse Eco-Blind Engineering in Tigre Delta
8 Convergent Protest from the Provinces: Hydroelectricity + Gold Mining = Water Predation

9 Conclusion

Glossary
Notes
References
Index

Verlagsort Philadelphia PA
Sprache englisch
Maße 152 x 229 mm
Themenwelt Naturwissenschaften Biologie Ökologie / Naturschutz
Sozialwissenschaften Politik / Verwaltung Politische Theorie
Sozialwissenschaften Politik / Verwaltung Staat / Verwaltung
Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie
Wirtschaft Betriebswirtschaft / Management Rechnungswesen / Bilanzen
ISBN-10 1-4399-0930-X / 143990930X
ISBN-13 978-1-4399-0930-0 / 9781439909300
Zustand Neuware
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