The Struggle for Water - Politics, Rationality, and Identity in the American Southwest

Nearly 50 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 an arid plain, it would also destroy a wildlife habitat, flood archaeological sites, and force the Yavapai Indians from their ancestral home. This is the fascinating story of this controversial and ultimately thwarted project.

Summary

The story of the proposed - and ultimately thwarted - building of a dam, nearly 50 years ago in Arizona, which would have destroyed wildlife, flooded archaeological sites and forced the Havapai Indians off their ancestral home. It is also a study of rationality as a cultural, organisational and political construct.

Product details

• Authors: Wendy Nelson Espeland, Wendy Nelson Espesland, Wendy Nelson Espesland
• Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 15.09.1998
• EAN: 9780226217949
• ISBN: 978-0-226-21794-9
• No. of pages: 298
• Dimensions: 154 mm x 231 mm x 21 mm
• Weight: 482 g
• Series: Language & Legal Discourse S.; Chicago Series in Law and Society; Language & Legal Discourse S.
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Biology > Ecology; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Social structure research