Liquid Power : Contested Hydro-Modernities in 20th Century Spain
- Submitting institution
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The University of Manchester
- Unit of assessment
- 14 - Geography and Environmental Studies
- Output identifier
- 41154151
- Type
- A - Authored book
- DOI
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10.7551/mitpress/9780262029032.001.0001
- Publisher
- MIT Press
- ISBN
- 9780262326957
- Open access status
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- Month of publication
- June
- Year of publication
- 2015
- URL
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- Supplementary information
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
- No
- COVID-19 affected output statement
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- Forensic science
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- Criminology
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- Interdisciplinary
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- Number of additional authors
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0
- Research group(s)
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A - SEED
- Proposed double-weighted
- Yes
- Double-weighted statement
- Swyngedouw’s keystone monograph 'Liquid Power: Contested Hydro-Modernities in Twentieth-Century Spain' represents the culmination of 15 years of research. It provides an empirically rich and historically deep analysis of 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. There are numerous accolades, e.g. Richard A. Walker (Professor Emeritus, University of California, Berkeley) considers the book as “remarkable” and “a tour de force”, and Matthew Gandy (UCL) praises its analytical thoroughness.
- Reserve for an output with double weighting
- No
- Additional information
- ‘Liquid Power’ contributes a major new demonstration of how political transformations and socio-ecological change are intimately interlinked. Swyngedouw re-writes the historical-geography of modernization in Spain (1898-2010) from the vantage point of the enrolment of nature (water) into the transforming circuits of economic and political power, thereby highlighting both the continuities and the ruptures. While the book draws on earlier work (especially chapters 3, 5, and 8), this has been thoroughly re-written and combined with six newly-written chapters containing substantial additional material and analyses. The result is a sustained and empirically-grounded argument which re-thinks and re-conceptualizes long-term socio-ecological and political-ecological transformations.
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- Non-English
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- English abstract
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