Building Hydrosocialism in Czechoslovakia
The result's identifiers
Result code in IS VaVaI
<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F68378114%3A_____%2F20%3A00535475" target="_blank" >RIV/68378114:_____/20:00535475 - isvavai.cz</a>
Result on the web
<a href="https://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/whp/ge/2020/00000013/00000003/art00005" target="_blank" >https://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/whp/ge/2020/00000013/00000003/art00005</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.3197/ge.2020.130305" target="_blank" >10.3197/ge.2020.130305</a>
Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Building Hydrosocialism in Czechoslovakia
Original language description
Throughout the period of state socialism, water was viewed as an instrument of immense transformative power and water experts were seen as guardians of such transformation, a transformation for which we coin the term 'hydrosocialism'. A reconfiguration of water, a scarce and vital natural resource, was to a great extent identified with social change and envisioned transition to socialist and eventually communist society. While in the West, hydraulic experts (hydrocrats) and the vision of a 'civilising mission' of water management (hydraulic mission) gradually faded away with the arrival of reflexive modernity from the 1960s, in socialist Czechoslovakia the situation was different. Despite the fact they faced analogous challenges (environmental issues, economisation), the technocratic character of state socialism enabled socialist hydraulic engineers to secure their position and belief in transformative powers of water.
Czech name
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Czech description
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Classification
Type
J<sub>imp</sub> - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
60101 - History (history of science and technology to be 6.3, history of specific sciences to be under the respective headings)
Result continuities
Project
<a href="/en/project/GJ18-05095Y" target="_blank" >GJ18-05095Y: Hydrosocialism: Water, environment and the socialist rule in Czechoslovakia</a><br>
Continuities
I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace
Others
Publication year
2020
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Name of the periodical
Global environment
ISSN
1973-3739
e-ISSN
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Volume of the periodical
13
Issue of the periodical within the volume
3
Country of publishing house
GB - UNITED KINGDOM
Number of pages
24
Pages from-to
610-633
UT code for WoS article
000575173100005
EID of the result in the Scopus database
2-s2.0-85091387870