How Infrastructures Age: Engineering, Nature, and Environmental Justice in the Lower Mississippi Delta- [electronic resource]
How Infrastructures Age: Engineering, Nature, and Environmental Justice in the Lower Mississippi Delta- [electronic resource]
- 자료유형
- 학위논문파일 국외
- 최종처리일시
- 20240214101514
- ISBN
- 9798380848688
- DDC
- 900
- 서명/저자
- How Infrastructures Age: Engineering, Nature, and Environmental Justice in the Lower Mississippi Delta - [electronic resource]
- 발행사항
- [S.l.]: : Harvard University., 2023
- 발행사항
- Ann Arbor : : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses,, 2023
- 형태사항
- 1 online resource(295 p.)
- 주기사항
- Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 85-05, Section: B.
- 주기사항
- Advisor: Oreskes, Naomi.
- 학위논문주기
- Thesis (Ph.D.)--Harvard University, 2023.
- 사용제한주기
- This item must not be sold to any third party vendors.
- 초록/해제
- 요약This dissertation is about living in a world of aging infrastructure with a focus on impacts to environmental and community health rather than technological function. In this study I bring together the history of technology and environmental history to show how places and infrastructures age alongside each other in the Lower Mississippi Delta, and how communities, engineers, and policy makers engaged in debates related to infrastructures across their lifetimes. In four chapters I examine four technological infrastructures that sit along the lower Mississippi River: the Mississippi River and Tributaries Project the Army Corps began constructing after the flood of 1927; a closed down TVA power plant in Memphis, Tennessee; an as-yet uncompleted flood mitigation project in Mississippi's Yazoo Delta floodplain; and the web of petroleum canals, pipelines, and refineries of Louisiana's Terrebonne basin. By taking the principles of environmental justice as a foundational starting point for understanding community-defined goals for good infrastructures and healthy environments, my work demonstrates how the harmful effects of these technologies impact communities unevenly-with Native, Black, immigrant, and low-income communities bearing the burdens of pollution and environmental harm. My work builds on the tradition of environmental justice scholarship produced by and for people of the US South by articulating how Southeastern Native epistemologies disrupt the ongoing harms of settler colonialism and racial capitalism and offer alternative, more just futures.
- 일반주제명
- History.
- 일반주제명
- Environmental studies.
- 일반주제명
- Native American studies.
- 일반주제명
- Environmental justice.
- 키워드
- Community health
- 키워드
- Policy makers
- 기타저자
- Harvard University History of Science
- 기본자료저록
- Dissertations Abstracts International. 85-05B.
- 기본자료저록
- Dissertation Abstract International
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