{"product_id":"liquid-power-erik-swyngedouw-9780262548960","title":"Liquid Power: Contested Hydro-Modernities in Twentieth-Century Spain","description":"\u003cb\u003eAn examination of the central role of water politics and engineering in Spain's modernization, illustrating water's part in forging, maintaining, and transforming social power.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn this book, Erik Swyngedouw explores how water becomes part of the tumultuous processes of modernization and development. Using the experience of Spain as a lens to view the interplay of modernity and environmental transformation, Swyngedouw shows that every political project is also an environmental project. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn 1898, Spain lost its last overseas colony, triggering a period of post-imperialist turmoil still referred to as \u003ci\u003eEl Disastre\u003c\/i\u003e. Turning inward, the nation embarked on \"regeneration\" and modernization. Water played a central role in this; during a turbulent period from the twentieth century into the twenty-first--through the Franco years and into the new era of liberal democracy--Spain's waterscapes were completely transformed, with large-scale projects that ranged from dam construction to irrigation to desalinization. Swyngedouw describes the contested political-ecological process that marked this transformation, showing that the Spain's diverse and contested paths to modernization were predicated on particular trajectories of environmental transformation. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAfter laying out his theoretical perspectives, Swyngedouw analyzes three periods of Spain's political-ecological modernization: the aspirations and stalled modernization of the early twentieth century; the accelerated efforts under the authoritarian Franco regime--which included six hundred dams, expanded hydroelectricity, and massive irrigation; and the changing hydro-social landscape under social democracy. Offering an innovative perspective on the relationship of nature and society, \u003ci\u003eLiquid Power \u003c\/i\u003eilluminates the political nature of nature.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Erik Swyngedouw\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0262548968\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780262548960\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e MIT Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 08\/15\/2023\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 320\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.04lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.72d","brand":"Erik Swyngedouw","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":45476959355135,"sku":"9780262548960","price":40.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_25bc300a-da46-4c10-8784-f02d6d58a577.jpg?v=1715918656","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/liquid-power-erik-swyngedouw-9780262548960","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}