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DESCRIPTION:Today\, hydropower is promoted as a greener alternative to foss
 il fuel power. While historians have developed vigorous discussions about 
 coal and oil\, such as “carbon democracy” and “carbon technocracy\,
 ” hydropower has received little theoretical attention\, despite its sig
 nificance. Many countries have heavily relied on hydropower for their indu
 strialization since the late 19th century\, and dam construction was and s
 till is a popular big-ticket development aid project after 1945. This pane
 l aims to develop an analytical framework to examine hydropower and the po
 litics of water management under the theme of hydro developmentalism in th
 e Japanese empire.\n \nWe tackle the following questions: What social\, ge
 opolitical\, and environmental conditions enable hydro developmentalism\, 
 and what new power dynamics does hydro developmentalism generate? How did 
 these dynamics develop differently between colonial\, postcolonial\, and s
 ocialist nation-building contexts? How might hydro developmentalism differ
  from coal/petro developmentalism? How have diverse historical actors unde
 rstood the linkages between hydropower\, development\, and their ecologica
 l ramifications? Four panelists present our current research to engage wit
 h these questions: Wilson on conflicts between hydro developers and affect
 ed local residents in early twentieth-century Japan\, Mizuno on the Japane
 se empire’s “carbon technocracy” and “hydro technocracy” in colo
 nial Korea and Manchuria/northeast China\, Yamane on wartime dam construct
 ion and its direct influence postwar land development policies and project
 s and Dinmore on a Japanese-Indonesian large dam and aluminum smelting pro
 ject in Suharto-era Sumatra.
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LOCATION:Room 304 PC Desk (Seats 36)
SUMMARY:Hydro Developmentalism in and after the Empire of Japan - Roderick 
 Wilson\, Eric Dinmore\, Hiromi Mizuno\, Nobuhiro Yamane
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