Taylor Klein's Flooded: Development, Democracy, and Brazil's Belo Monte Dam. The book
combines the results of ethnographic work drawn from interactions with various participants …

Flooded: Development, Democracy, and Brazil's Belo Monte Dam rebuts skeptics. Through
the prism of one hydroelectric dam in the Amazon, Klein refracts humanity's most pressing …

In the middle of the twentieth century, governments ignored the negative effects of large-
scale infrastructure projects. In recent decades, many democratic countries have continued …

The Belo Monte hydropower scheme on the River Xingu in Brazilian Amazonia symbolizes
the persistent contradictions between industrial modernization and resource conservation in …

The reservoir of Brazil's Belo Monte Dam was filled in December 2015. The dam's planning,
licensing and construction had rolled inexorably forward despite opposition from local …

Belo Monte is one of the most divisive dams in Brazilian history, becoming entangled in a
thirty‐year struggle between pro‐and anti‐dam interests over the role of the facility within a …

Before the Flood examines the social and political impact of the Itaipu hydroelectric dam's
construction near the point where the borders of Brazil, Paraguay, and Argentina meet. It …

The construction of a hydroelectric project transforms the watershed in which it is located,
leading to a moment of contestation in which the scheme is challenged by opposition actors …

During their military dictatorship (1964–85), the Brazilian government constructed the
world's largest hydroelectric dam on the Paraná River between Brazil and Paraguay. In the …

Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2019. xviii+ 296 pp. Table, notes, references, and
index. $27.95 paper (ISBN 978-1-4780-0489-9); $104.95 cloth (ISBN 978-1-4780-0429-5); …