{"product_id":"the-struggle-for-water-wendy-nelson-espeland-9780226217949","title":"The Struggle for Water: Politics, Rationality, and Identity in the American Southwest","description":"Nearly fifty years ago, the Bureau of Reclamation proposed building a dam at the confluence of two rivers in Central Arizona. While the dam would bring valuable water to this arid plain, it would also destroy a wildlife habitat, flood archaeological sites, and force the Yavapai Indians off their ancestral home. \u003ci\u003eThe Struggle for Water\u003c\/i\u003e is not only the fascinating story of this controversial and ultimately thwarted public works project but also a study of rationality as a cultural, organizational, and political construct. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e In the 1970s, the three groups most intimately involved in the Orme Dam-younger Bureau of Reclamation employees committed to \"rational choice\" decision making, older Bureau engineers committed to the dam, and the Yavapai community-all found themselves and their values transformed by their struggles. Wendy Nelson Espeland lays bare the relations between interests and identities that emerged during the conflict, creating a contemporary tale of power and colonization, bureaucracies and democratic practice, that asks the crucial question of what it means to be \"rational.\" \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Wendy Nelson Espeland\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0226217949\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780226217949\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Chicago Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 09\/15\/1998\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 298\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.91lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.01h x 6.05w x 0.65d","brand":"Wendy Nelson Espeland","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":46795324031231,"sku":"9780226217949","price":37.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_8626245c-00fb-431e-b84a-92d08841a52f.jpg?v=1744947252","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-struggle-for-water-wendy-nelson-espeland-9780226217949","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}