El Nilo argentino

This work will explore a comparison between the Río Negro (Argentina) and the Nile River (Egypt) that recurs throughout the first half of the 20th century among various actors connected to the field of hydraulics. From a historical anthropology of the "deserts," we have traced this comparison and aim to tightly describe the web of practices and narratives in which this comparison "makes" sense. A net in which one river refers to another, one colonization to another, and one "desert" to another. The ways of making and thinking civilization thus challenge scalar logics, and the notions of "situated" and "universal

Water Governance and Infrastructure · Geology