{"product_id":"liquid-power-isbn-9780262548960","title":"Liquid Power","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\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\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.Preface ix\u003cbr\u003eList of Acronyms xiii\u003cbr\u003e1 \"Not a Drop of Water...\": Spain's Cyborg Water World 1\u003cbr\u003e2 The Hydro-Social Cycle and the Making of Cyborg Worlds 19\u003cbr\u003e3 \"\u003ci\u003eRegeneracionismo\u003c\/i\u003e\" and the Emergence of Hydraulic Modernization, 1898-1930 39\u003cbr\u003e4 Chronicle of a Death Foretold: The Failure of Early Twentieth-Century Hydraulic Modernization 67\u003cbr\u003e5 Paco El Rana's Wet Dream for Spain 99\u003cbr\u003e6 Welcome Mr. Marshall! 129\u003cbr\u003e7 Marching Foreword to the Past: From Hydro-Deadlock to Water and Modernity Reimagined 163\u003cbr\u003e8 Mobilizing the Seas: Reassembling Hydro-Modernities 191\u003cbr\u003e9 Politicizing Water, Politicizing Natures, Or...\"Water Does Not Exist!\" 223\u003cbr\u003eNotes 231\u003cbr\u003eReferences 249\u003cbr\u003eIndex 285Erik Swyngedouw is Professor of Geography at Manchester University and the author of \u003ci\u003eLiquid Power: Contested Hydro-Modernities in Twentieth-Century Spain\u003c\/i\u003e (MIT Press).","brand":"The MIT Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46303310545125,"sku":"NP9780262548960","price":40.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780262548960.jpg?v=1767731503","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/es\/products\/liquid-power-isbn-9780262548960","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}