Intervention, management, technological error

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Volumn 14, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 48-61

  Whitington, Jerome ^a  

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EID: 61249101356     PISSN: 13534645     EISSN: 1460700X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13534640802159138     Document Type: Review

References (32)

1. See Jerome Whitington, The Simulation of Politics: Developmental natures in Lao hydropower (Berkeley: University of California, 2008 [forthcoming]), PhD Dissertation.
2. The term viability has been influenced by Georges Canguilhem, The Normal and the Pathological, trans. Carolyn R. Fawcett (New York: Zone Books, 1989).
3. On the contemporary, see Paul Rabinow, Marking Time: On The Anthropology Of The Contemporary (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2007).
4. On Latour's concept of durability see Bruno Latour, Science and Action: How to follow scientists and engineers through society (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1987).
5. For example, Marilyn Strathern, Partial Connections (Savage, MD: Rowman and Littlefield, 1991).
6. Ulrich Beck, World Risk Society (Cambridge: Polity, 1999), p.31.
7. Recently re-named as simply 'International Rivers'. The hydropower firm is the Theun Hinboun Power Company, which is currently in the feasibility stage of designing an additional dam. 'Richard' is a pseudonym. Reported speech is paraphrased from written notes. Fieldwork was conducted during 2003-5.
8. Fernando Coronil, 'Towards a Critique of Globalcentrism: Speculations on Capitalism's Nature', Public Culture, 12 (2000), pp.351-74.
9. Sheila Jasanoff, 'NGOs and the Environment: Knowledge to action', Third World Quarterly, 18 (1997), pp.579-94.
10. W.M. Adams, Green Development: Environment and Sustainability in the Third World (London: Routledge, 2001);
11. Timothy O'Riordan, Environmentalism (London: Pion, 1976).
12. Andrew Barry, Political Machines: Governing a Technological Society (New York: Athlone, 2001), p.207;
13. James Ferguson, The Anti-Politics Machine: 'Development', Depoliticization, and Bureaucratic Power in Lesotho (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1994).
14. See Marilyn Strathern, 'Introduction: new accountabilities', in Audit Cultures: Anthropological Studies in Accountability, Ethics and the Academy (New York: Routledge, 2000), pp. 1-18;
15. and Elizabeth Dunn, Privatizing Poland: Baby Food, Big Business, and the Remaking of Labor (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2004).
16. For a related concept of biological citizenship, see Adriana Petryna, Life Exposed: Biological Citizenship After Chernobyl (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2002).
17. For a more general concept of citizenship that moves far beyond the basic legal category, see Aihwa Ong, Flexible Citizenship: The Cultural Logics of Transnationality (Durham: Duke University Press, 1999).
18. Donna Haraway, 'Situated Knowledges: The Science Question in Feminism and the Privilege of Partial Perspective', Feminist Studies, 14 (1988), pp.575-99 (p.581).
19. Michel Foucault, 'The Concern for Truth', in Politics, Philosophy, Culture: Interviews and other writings, 1977-1984 (New York: Routledge, 1988), p. 257;
20. and Paul Rabinow, Anthropos Today: Reflections on Modern Equipment (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2003), pp.255-70.
21. Frederic Jameson, Archaeologies of the Future: The Desire Called Utopia and Other Science Fictions (New York: Verso, 2005).
22. Georges Canguilhem, The Normal and the Pathological, p.247.
23. Thayer Scudder, personal interview. See also Thayer Scudder, The Future of Large Dams: Dealing with the Social, Environmental, Institutional and Political Costs (Sterling, VA: Earthscan, 2005).
24. Michel Foucault, 'Society must be Defended': Lectures at the College de France, 1975-1976, trans. David Macey (New York: Picador, 2003), p.7.
25. See Mary Douglas, Risk and Culture: An Essay on the Selection of Technical and Environmental Dangers (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1982).
26. Arthur Kleinman, 'The Moral and the Medical: The Stakes of Social Experience', in Society and Medicine: Essays in Honor of Renée C. Fox, eds. Carla M. Messikomer, Judith P. Swazey and Allen Glicksman (New Brunswick: Transaction, 2003), pp.243-56.
27. Kim Fortun, Advocacy after Bhopal: Environmentalism, Disaster, New Global Orders (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2001), p.105.
28. Paul Rabinow, Marking Time: On The Anthropology Of The Contemporary, pp.35-53.
29. Hirokazu Miyazaki and Annelise Riles, 'Failure as an Endpoint', in Global Assemblages: Technology, Politics and Ethics as Anthropological Problems, ed. Aihwa Ong and Stephen J Collier (Walden, MA: Basil Blackwell, 2005), pp.320-32.
30. Luc Boltanski and Eve Chiapello, The New Spirit of Capitalism (London: Verso, 2005).
31. Alberto Corsin Jimenez, 'Introduction', in Anthropology of Organizations, ed. Alberto Corsin Jimenez (Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2007), pp.35-40.
32. Kim Fortun, Advocacy after Bhopal: Environmentalism, Disaster, New Global Orders, p.332.