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During the 20th century dam-building became a truly global endeavour. Built around the world, they generated networks of actors, institutions and companies embedded in globally circulating technological knowledge and discourses of modernization and development. This volume takes a global approach to the history of dams, exploring the complex power relations and internationalist entanglements that shaped them.
Shedding new light on the globalization of technology and international power struggles that defined the 20th century, Dam Internationalism shows that dams are artefacts in their own right and have created new and revisionist histories that urge us to rethink classic narratives. From international cooperation, to the importance of the Cold War and the capitalist/socialist divide, the success of western technology, the prominence of the United States, the alleged impotence of people affected by dams, and the uniformity of infrastructure. Each chapter showcases a different case study from Europe, Asia, Africa, North and South America to show that dams enabled marginalized countries and actors to articulate themselves and pursue their own political and socio-economic goals in a century dominated by the Global North.
Contents
Dam Internationalism: Introduction to a Global Phenomenon, Vincent Lagendijk and Frederik Schulze (Maastricht University, The Netherlands, and University of Bielefeld, Germany)
1. A Cohort of Their Own: Indian Hydraulic Engineers as Interlocuters of Dams and Development, Ramya Swayamprakash (Grand Valley State University, USA)
2. The Internationalization of Dam-Building in Twentieth-Century China, Xiangli Ding (Rhode Island School of Design, USA)
3. Hydro Expertise, U.S. Settler Colonialism, U.S. Imperialism: Professionally Communicating the Cold War, 1946-1975, Jane Griffith (X University Toronto, Canada)
4. Linking the Global to the Nation: Dams and Political Legitimacy in Spain from the 1930s to the 1960s, Benjamin Brendel (Philipps Universität Marburg, Germany)
5. New Centres of Knowledge: Latin American Dam-Building in the Twentieth Century, Frederik Schulze (University of Bielefeld, Germany)
6. Internationalism Coerced and Willing: Choreographing the Global Entanglements of an Uzbek Dam in World War II, Flora Roberts (Cardiff University, UK)
7. Hydro Money Machine: The Global History of Czechoslovak Dam-Building Expertise in the Cold War (1930s-1990s), Jirí Janác and Jakub Mazanec (Univerzita Karlova Prague, Czech Republic)
8. Internationalism-Fueled Development Agendas and Dam Construction in Imperial Ethiopia, Sara de Simone (University of Trento, Italy)
9. The Global Entanglements of Ghana's Volta River Project, Stephan Miescher (University of California, Santa Barbara, USA)
10. Dam Anthropology in Mexico and Beyond, Diana Schwartz Francisco (The University of Chicago, USA)
11. From Dam Age to Damage: The International Organization of Dam-Building in the Twentieth Century, Vincent Lagendijk (Maastricht University, The Netherlands)
Epilogue, Corinna Unger (European University Institute, Italy)
Selected Bibliography
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