From Nature to National Networks. Hydraulic Bureaucracy and the Modernization of Waters in Czechia, 1890s-1960s
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Result language
angličtina
Original language name
From Nature to National Networks. Hydraulic Bureaucracy and the Modernization of Waters in Czechia, 1890s-1960s
Original language description
The chapter looks at the transformation of environment in Czechoslovakia in the 20th century from the perspective of a specific group of national technocratic elite – the so called hydraulic bureaucracy, or hydrocracy. Since late 19th century, in the context of European modernity (Wagner 1991), science and technocracy started to be recognized by political authorities as a crucial instrument of building of the state and legitimization of its existence (Kohlrausch and Trischler 2014). In this context, hydraulic expertise became a strategic resource for serving national interests, as water started to be regarded primarily as a national natural resource. In this sense, it seems appropriate speak of co-construction of the state and its wet infrastructures, a process epitomized in the construction of large symbolic water structures – most famously gigantic multipurpose dams in the post-war period (Hecht 1999. Pritchard 2011).
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Czech description
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Classification
Type
C - Chapter in a specialist book
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
P - Projekt vyzkumu a vyvoje financovany z verejnych zdroju (s odkazem do CEP)
Others
Publication year
2022
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
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Book/collection name
A New Ecological Order. Development and the Transformation of Nature in Eastern Europe
ISBN
9780822947172
Number of pages of the result
26
Pages from-to
130-155
Number of pages of the book
292
Publisher name
University of Pittsburgh Press
Place of publication
Pittsburgh
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