The Struggle for Water – Politics, Rationality, and Identity in the American Southwest : Politics, Rationality, and Identity in the American Southwest
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Hardback or Cased Book
Book Series
Chicago Series in Law and Society
ISBN-10
0226217930
ISBN-13
9780226217932
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press
Imprint
University of Chicago Press
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Sep 1st, 1998
Print length
298 Pages
Weight
534 grams
Dimensions
16.20 x 24.00 x 2.20 cms
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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.
Nearly 50 years ago the Bureau of Reclamation proposed building a dam in Central Arizona, the dam would bring valuable water to the arid plain but it would also destroy a wildlife habitat, flood archaeological sites and force the Yavapai Indians off their ancestral home. The three groups most involved with the Orme Dam found themselves and their values transformed by their struggles and the text examines the relations between interests and identities that emerged during the conflict, creating a contemporary tale of power and colonization, bureaucracies and democratic practice and asks the question of what it means to be "rational".
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