Beyond the Big Ditch Politics, Ecology, and Infrastructure at the Panama Canal

Name: Beyond the Big Ditch Politics, Ecology, and Infrastructure at the Panama Canal
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ISBN: 9780262028110

ISBN-10: 0262028115

ISBN-13: 9780262028110

Edition: 2014

Authors: Ashley Carse

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In this innovative book, Ashley Carse traces the water that flows into and out fromthe Panama Canal to explain how global shipping is entangled with Panama's cultural and physicallandscapes. By following container ships as they travel downstream along maritime routes and tracingrivers upstream across the populated watershed that feeds the canal, he explores the politics ofenvironmental management around a waterway that links faraway ports and markets to nearby farms,forests, cities, and rural communities. Carse draws on a wide range ofethnographic and archival material to show the social and ecological implications of transportationacross Panama. The Canal moves ships over an aquatic…

Book details

List price: $37.00
Copyright year: 2014
Publisher: MIT Press
Publication date: 10/24/2014
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 288
Size: 6.25" wide x 9.25" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 1.210
Language: English

Ashley Carse, an anthropologist, is currently a National Science Foundation PostdoctoralFellow in Science, Technology, and Society at the University of Virginia.