From Nature to National Networks. Hydraulic Bureaucracy and the Modernization of Waters in Czechia, 1890s-1960s

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Jazyk výsledku

angličtina

Název v původním jazyce

From Nature to National Networks. Hydraulic Bureaucracy and the Modernization of Waters in Czechia, 1890s-1960s

Popis výsledku v původním jazyce

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).

Název v anglickém jazyce

From Nature to National Networks. Hydraulic Bureaucracy and the Modernization of Waters in Czechia, 1890s-1960s

Popis výsledku anglicky

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).

Druh

C - Kapitola v odborné knize

CEP obor

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OECD FORD obor

60101 - History (history of science and technology to be 6.3, history of specific sciences to be under the respective headings)

Projekt

<a href="/cs/project/GJ18-05095Y" target="_blank" >GJ18-05095Y: Vodní socialismus: Voda, životní prostředí a socialistické panství v Československu</a><br>

Návaznosti

P - Projekt vyzkumu a vyvoje financovany z verejnych zdroju (s odkazem do CEP)

Rok uplatnění

2022

Kód důvěrnosti údajů

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Název knihy nebo sborníku

A New Ecological Order. Development and the Transformation of Nature in Eastern Europe

ISBN

9780822947172

Počet stran výsledku

26

Strana od-do

130-155

Počet stran knihy

292

Název nakladatele

University of Pittsburgh Press

Místo vydání

Pittsburgh

Kód UT WoS kapitoly

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