Anthropological quarterly, 2010-10, Vol.83 (4), p.783-804
2010
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- Autor(en) / Beteiligte
- Titel
- Shifting Perspectives on Development: An Actor-Network Study of a Dam in Costa Rica
- Ist Teil von
- Anthropological quarterly, 2010-10, Vol.83 (4), p.783-804
- Ort / Verlag
- Washington, DC: George Washington University Institute for Ethnographic Research
- Erscheinungsjahr
- 2010
- Quelle
- Project MUSE
- Beschreibungen/Notizen
- The article concerns the political negotiations during the planning process of a hydroelectric dam whose construction affects an indigenous community in Costa Rica. In order to allow the thick description of this developmentnetwork, the study traces how three actors in the field—development workers, indigenous activists, and an independent researcher—produce cultural representations and concepts with apparently clear boundaries. This multivocal account shows how development projects constitute themselves by associating heterogeneous actors. Simultaneously, it highlights the production of cultural representations and knowledge of development.
- Sprache
- Englisch
- Identifikatoren
- ISSN: 0003-5491, 1534-1518eISSN: 1534-1518DOI: 10.1353/anq.2010.0019Titel-ID: cdi_proquest_miscellaneous_852900114
- Format
- –
- Schlagworte
- Activism, Actors, America, Anthropology, Case studies, Communities, Costa Rica, Cultural anthropology, Cultural factors, Dams, Design and construction, Development programmes, Development Programs, Economic changes and development, Economic Development, Economics, Ethnography, Ethnology, Geertz, Clifford (1926-2006), Hydroelectric power, Ice, Indigenous peoples, Indigenous Populations, Knowledge, Migrant workers, Morphological source materials, Negotiation, Nongovernmental organizations, Political activism, Political anthropology, Political aspects, Political representation, Politics, R&D, Research & development, Social aspects, Social representations, Social reproduction, Society, Symmetry, Technological change, Treaties