Beyond the Big Ditch: Politics, Ecology, and Infrastructure at the Panama Canal
Beyond the Big Ditch: Politics, Ecology, and Infrastructure at the Panama Canal
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超越大沟：巴拿马运河的政治、生态和基础设施
DOI：
10.7551/mitpress/9780262028110.001.0001
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发表时间：
2014
影响因子：
3.3
通讯作者：
A. Carse
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A. Carse
在这本创新的书中，Ashley Carse追溯了进出巴拿马运河的水，解释了全球航运是如何与巴拿马的文化和自然景观纠缠在一起的。通过跟踪集装箱船沿着海上路线向下游行驶，并沿着为运河提供水源的人口密集的分水岭逆流而上，他探索了围绕一条水道的环境管理政治，这条水道将遥远的港口和市场与附近的农场、森林、城市和农村社区连接起来。Carse利用了广泛的人种学和档案材料，展示了巴拿马各地交通运输的社会和生态影响。运河通过一个水上船闸楼梯运送船只，这些船闸需要从周围地区获得大量淡水。每艘经过的船只向大海排放5200万加仑的水--这个数量相当于50万巴拿马人每天的用水量。卡斯认为，像巴拿马运河这样的基础设施不仅仅是征服自然，它们还以服务于特定政治和经济优先事项的方式改造生态系统。从一个世纪前美国运河区域的人口减少到运河水域的道路建设冲突和水葫芦入侵等历史交织在一起，这本书阐明了人类和非人类行为者聚集在这条著名的贸易路线的边缘。2014年是巴拿马运河开通100周年。Beyond the Big Ditch呼吁我们考虑基础设施是如何在物质上嵌入到位的，创造出有赢家和输家的环境。
In this innovative book, Ashley Carse traces the water that flows into and out from the Panama Canal to explain how global shipping is entangled with Panama's cultural and physical landscapes. By following container ships as they travel downstream along maritime routes and tracing rivers upstream across the populated watershed that feeds the canal, he explores the politics of environmental management around a waterway that links faraway ports and markets to nearby farms, forests, cities, and rural communities. Carse draws on a wide range of ethnographic and archival material to show the social and ecological implications of transportation across Panama. The Canal moves ships over an aquatic staircase of locks that demand an enormous amount of fresh water from the surrounding region. Each passing ship drains 52 million gallons out to sea -- a volume comparable to the daily water use of half a million Panamanians. Infrastructures like the Panama Canal, Carse argues, do not simply conquer nature; they rework ecologies in ways that serve specific political and economic priorities. Interweaving histories that range from the depopulation of the U.S. Canal Zone a century ago to road construction conflicts and water hyacinth invasions in canal waters, the book illuminates the human and nonhuman actors that have come together at the margins of the famous trade route. 2014 marks the 100th anniversary of the Panama Canal. Beyond the Big Ditch calls us to consider how infrastructures are materially embedded in place, producing environments with winners and losers.