Introduction: Mega-Transformations of Hydropower Few would question that early hydropower development represents a quintessential type of megaproject. Traditionally, a megaproject signified a massive, singular unit requiring extensive material
What Makes a Megaproject?
A Review of Global Hydropower Assemblages
Grant M. Gutierrez, Sarah Kelly, Joshua J. Cousins, and Christopher Sneddon
Standardizing responsibility through the stakeholder figure
Norwegian hydropower in Turkey
Ståle Knudsen, Ingrid Birce Müftüoğlu, and Isabelle Hugøy
2006 ( Nilsen and Thue 2006: 397 ). Building on a strong tradition in hydropower in Norway, Statkraft is now considered Europe's largest renewable energy corporation and has operations in Asia and South America as well. The international expansion of
Central American integration through infrastructure development
A case study of Costa Rican hydropower
Denielle M. Perry and Kate A. Berry
and the regional leader in energy production. Costa Rica’s economic and social development success stands out as an anomaly in the Central American equation. Much of the country’s success is attributable to its “hydropower capital.” Water in rivers
Meshworks and the Making of Climate Places in the European Alps
A Framework for Ethnographic Research on the Perceptions of Climate Change
Sophie Elixhauser, Stefan Böschen, and Katrin Vogel
villages and hamlets with a total sum of a little over two thousand inhabitants. People earn their livings from tourism, the crafts industry, and agriculture, as well as energy production through hydropower. A few years ago, as a result of increasing media
Contemporary Megaprojects
An Introduction
Seth Schindler, Simin Fadaee, and Dan Brockington
attention to processes of becoming in these projects and the ways people experience them on the ground. Grant Gutierrez and colleagues argue hydropower projects should be understood not as singular infrastructure projects but instead as global assemblages
Bringing the state back in
Corporate social responsibility and the paradoxes of Norwegian state capitalism in the international energy sector
Ståle Knudsen, Dinah Rajak, Siri Lange, and Isabelle Hugøy
the development of the Norwegian oil and gas corporation Equinor and the hydropower corporation Statkraft and their respective relations with the state. It is conventional wisdom and theoretical assumption that the Nordic model informs a better kind
Carceral Repair
Methane Extraction in Lake Kivu, Rwanda
Kristin Doughty
had grown to 208 megawatts, with 60 per cent from hydropower, the rest from methane, diesel engines and, to a much smaller extent, peat and solar (interview, Director of Generation at National Electricity Control Centre, October 2017). The government
In The Cambridge Journal of Anthropology
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- 01 Sep 2020
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- Research Article
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Egor Antonov and Venera Antonova
Translator : Tatiana Argounova-Low
(Viliuiskaia hydropower station); scholars Nikolai Cherskii and Yuri Shafer; the writers Semen and Sofron Danilov’s, Ivan Gogolev, and Semen Kurilov; the artists Afanasii Munkhalov and Afanasii Osipov; the singers Anegina Il’ina, Matvei Lobanov, Ivan Stepanov
Unbuilt and Unfinished
The Temporalities of Infrastructure
Ashley Carse and David Kneas
generate hydropower for all of Europe and to dry up the sea, creating new land for settlement. Greeted with enthusiasm, it failed to materialize ( Lehmann 2016 ). This drawing, from around 1930, depicts a proposed sea embankment between Gibraltar and
Where to Now?
Germany Rethinks its Energy Transition
Josephine Moore and Thane Gustafson
and larger (5–20 mw ) hydropower plants. In addition, the eeg gave “dispatch priority” to electricity from renewables, mandating its delivery into power systems ahead of power from conventional sources. Since then, Germany’s renewables policy has
