Saving Wild Rice
The Rise and Fall of the Nett Lake Dam
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12304014 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Tsegaye Nega (Carleton College, corresponding author), Tsegaye Habte Nega (Environment and Technology Studies Program Carleton College One North College St, Northfield, MN, 55057) |
| Year | 2008 |
| Volume | 14 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 5-39 |
| Publication date | 2008-01-23 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Environment and History (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0967-3407 • E-ISSN: 1752-7023 |
| Publisher | Liverpool University Press (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.3197/096734008x271841 |
| OpenAlex | W2080035682 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
| References cited | 36 |
This paper examines the interrelations of technology, environment and people by exploring the origin, design and implementation of a dam-building project intended to control water-level fluctuations and enhance the Nett Lake wild rice ecosystem at Bois Forte Indian Reservation in northern Minnesota. Informed by the interdisciplinary field of science and technology studies (STS), it is argued that technologies, such as the dam, do not fail or succeed because they are ill or well conceived. Rather, they acquire these properties depending on whether the boundaries of the technology, user and ecosystem become stable. This implies that even if we can point to the separate entities involved, their boundaries cannot be determined a priori. Instead, they emerge constantly, renegotiated by a complex interplay of heterogeneous elements, including scientific, economic, political, cultural, legal and natural factors
Archaeology · Biology · Control (management · Economics · Ecosystem · Environmental ethics · Environmental resource management · Field (mathematics · Geography · Management · Natural (archaeology · Political science · Politics · Reservation · American Environmental and Regional History · Environmental Science · Geographies of human-animal interactions · Law · Water Governance and Infrastructure · Ecology
The Structure of scientific theories
Shaping technology/building society
Science as Practice and Culture
Cognition in the Wild
The structure of scientific revolutions
Knowledge and social imagery
The organic machine
Handbook of Science and Technology Studies
Social impact assessments of large dams throughout the world
Confronting Nature
Enclosing the Floodplain
Interests, Positivism and History
Northwest Passage
Structures in the Stream
Health impacts of large dams
Water and Conflict
Grand Coulee
Hoover Dam
Legal Origins of the Indian Reservation in Colonial Massachusetts
The Social Construction of What
Rural Women, Displacement and the Three Gorges Project
History of Science and its Sociological Reconstructions
Big Dams and Other Dreams
Wild Rice and the Ojibway People
Making PCR
Some Elements of a Sociology of Translation
The Elements of Social Theory
Leviathan and the Air-Pump
The Egg and the Sperm
| Citations per year | 0.21 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2012 - 2023 (12) |
| Highly cited | No |