Title Dams, displacement, and the delusion of development : Cahora Bassa and its legacies in Mozambique, 1965-2007 / Allen F. Isaacman and Barbara S. Isaacman

Published Athens : Ohio University Press, [2013] ©2013

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Description 1 online resource (xvi, 291 pages) : illustrations, maps Series New African histories New African histories series Contents Introduction : Cahora Bassa in broader perspective -- The Zambezi River Valley in Mozambican history : an overview -- Harnessing the river : high modernism and building the dam, 1965-75 -- Displaced people : forced eviction and life in the protected villages, 1970-75 -- The Lower Zambezi : remaking nature, transforming the landscape, 1975-2007 -- Displaced energy -- Legacies Summary Cahora Bassa Dam on the Zambezi River, built in the early 1970s during the final years of Portuguese rule, was the last major infrastructure project constructed in Africa during the turbulent era of decolonization. Engineers and hydrologists praised the dam for its technical complexity and the skills required to construct what was then the world's fifth-largest mega-dam. Portuguese colonial officials cited benefits they expected from the dam - from expansion of irrigated farming and European settlement, to improved transportation throughout the Zambezi River Valley, to reduced flooding in this area of unpredictable rainfall. "The project, however, actually resulted in cascading layers of human displacement, violence, and environmental destruction. Its electricity benefited few Mozambicans, even after the former guerrillas of FRELIMO (Frente de Libertaça̋o de Moçambique) came to power; instead, it fed industrialization in apartheid South Africa. This in-depth study of the region examines the dominant developmentalist narrative that has surrounded the dam, chronicles the continual violence that has accompanied its existence, and gives voice to previously unheard narratives of forced labor, displacement, and historical and contemporary life in the dam's shadow. -- Publisher's website Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes English Print version record Subject Economic development projects -- Mozambique Forced migration -- Zambezi River Valley HISTORY -- Africa -- South -- General. BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Real Estate -- General. Economic development projects Forced migration Rural conditions Energiewirtschaft Umsiedlung Umweltveränderung Umweltschaden SUBJECT Cahora Bassa Dam (Mozambique) -- History Zambezi River Valley -- Rural conditions Subject Mozambique Mozambique -- Cahora Bassa Dam Zambezi River Valley Moçambique Sambesi Cabora-Bassa-Staudamm Genre/Form History Form Electronic book Author Isaacman, Barbara LC no. 2012049113 ISBN 0821444506 9780821444504

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