Stephanie Kane

Where Rivers Meet the Sea: The Political Ecology of Water

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Produktbeschreibung

A creative, narrative approach to environmental destruction in urban waterscapes, focusing on neighborhood activists who pressure their governments to follow existing law

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Univ of Chicago Behalf of Temple Univ Press
• New
• Seitenzahl: 246
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. August 2012
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 239mm x 152mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 499g
• ISBN-13: 9781439909300
• ISBN-10: 143990930X
• Artikelnr.: 34983276

Autorenporträt

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.

Inhaltsangabe

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