The Political Economy of Regions

Research Article| May 01 2018 The Political Economy of Regions: Climate Change and Dams in Guyana Sarah E. Vaughn Sarah E. Vaughn Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Radical History Review (2018) 2018 (131): 105–125. https://doi.org/10.1215/01636545-4355157 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter Email Permissions Search Site Citation Sarah E. Vaughn; The Political Economy of Regions: Climate Change and Dams in Guyana. Radical History Review 1 May 2018; 2018 (131): 105–125. doi: https://doi.org/10.1215/01636545-4355157 Download citation file: Zotero Reference Manager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex toolbar search Search nav search search input Search input auto suggest search filter Books & JournalsAll JournalsRadical History Review Search Advanced Search This article charts the role damming practices play in rescaling the geopolitical interests of engineers in Guyana. It focuses on engineers' responses to a disastrous flood in 1934, the first flood in their recorded history to compromise the East Demerara Water Conservancy. I argue that their responses rested on ideas about regionalism. By damming for local flood hazards, they recognized their failure to mobilize plantation agriculture which had provided an economic base for the rest of the (British) Caribbean. At the same time, their ideas about the formation of a regional political economy were subject to variation over time because of these flood hazards. Engineers, in other words, are political actors because they produce geographic frameworks for relating development to a changing climate. By tracing the work of engineers, this article is a modest attempt to understand what climate change can tell us about the pasts and futures of regional identity in the Global South. The text of this article is only available as a PDF. regions, climate change, Global South, histories of engineering Copyright © 2018 by MARHO: The Radical Historians' Organization, Inc.2018 You do not currently have access to this content

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