Name: In Praise of Floods: The Untamed River and the Life it Brings (Yale Agrarian Studies Series) (en Inglés)
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In Praise of Floods: The Untamed River and the Life it Brings (Yale Agrarian Studies Series) (en Inglés)

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James C. Scott

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Yale University Press

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248

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9780300278491

In Praise of Floods: The Untamed River and the Life it Brings (Yale Agrarian Studies Series) (en Inglés)

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Reseña del libro "In Praise of Floods: The Untamed River and the Life it Brings (Yale Agrarian Studies Series) (en Inglés)"

James C. Scott reframes rivers as alive and dynamic, revealing the consequences of treating them as resources for our profit Rivers, on a long view, are alive. They are born; they change; they shift their channels; they forge new routes to the sea; they move both gradually and violently; they can teem (usually) with life; they may die a quasi-natural death; they are frequently maimed and even murdered. It is the annual flood pulse--the brief time when the river occupies the floodplain--that gives a river its vitality, but it is human engineering that kills it, suppressing the flood pulse with dams, irrigation, siltation, dikes, and levees. In demonstrating these threats to the riverine world, award-winning author James C. Scott examines the life history of a particular river, the Ayeyarwady (Irrawaddy) of Burma, the heartland and superhighway of Burman culture. Scott opens our understanding of rivers to encompass their entirety--tributaries, wetlands, floodplains, backwaters, eddies, periodic marshlands, and the assemblage of life forms dependent on rivers for their existence and well-being. For anyone interested in the Anthropocene and the Great Acceleration, rivers offer a striking example of the consequences of human intervention in trying to control and domesticate a natural process, the complexity and variability of which we barely understand.

James C. Scott

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James C. Scott es Sterling Professor de Ciencias Políticas, catedrático de antropología y codirector del Programa de Estudios agrarios en la Universidad de Yale. En tre sus libros figuran Seeing Like a State: How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed; Domination and the Arts of Resistance: Hidden Transcripts; and most recently, The Art of Not Being Governed: An Anarchist History of Upland Southeast Asia. Es miembro de la Academia Americana de Artes y Ciencias y un mediocre granjero y apicultor.

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