Timescapes of Himalayan hydropower: Promises, project life cycles, and precarities,WIREs Water

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Timescapes of Himalayan hydropower: Promises, project life cycles, and precarities
WIREs Water ( IF 6.8 ) Pub Date : 2020-08-19 , DOI: 10.1002/wat2.1469
Austin Lord ₁ , Georgina Drew ₂ , Mabel Denzin Gergan ₃

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In this paper, we review the existing social science scholarship focused on hydropower development in the Himalayan region, using an interpretive lens attuned to issues of time and temporality. While the spatial politics of Himalayan hydropower are well examined in the literature, an explicit examination of temporal politics is lacking. In this paper, we present a conceptual framework organized around the heuristic of timescapes, highlighting temporal themes implicit in the existing literature. In three sections, we explore the temporal politics of anticipation that shape hydropower dreams, the intersecting temporalities and rhythms that modulate the life cycles of hydropower projects, and the ways that geological and hydrological time affect both hydropower development and broader Himalayan futures. Along the way, we pose a series of questions useful for framing future research given the significant climatic, geophysical, and sociopolitical changes underway in the Himalayan bioregion, calling for greater analytical attention to time, temporality, and temporal ethics in future studies of hydropower in the Himalayas and beyond.

中文翻译：

喜马拉雅水电的时空图：承诺，项目生命周期和脆弱性

在本文中，我们使用针对时间和时间问题的解释镜头，回顾了喜马拉雅地区专注于水电开发的现有社会科学奖学金。尽管在文献中对喜马拉雅水电的空间政治学进行了很好的研究，但对时间政治学却缺乏明确的研究。在本文中，我们提出了一个围绕时空启发法而组织的概念框架，突出了现有文献中隐含的时间主题。在三个部分中，我们探讨了塑造水电梦想的预期时空政治，影响水电项目生命周期的相交时空和节奏，以及地质和水文时间影响水电开发和喜马拉雅未来广阔前景的方式。一路上，

更新日期：2020-10-19

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