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Gorenstein, S. Government Rationality and Risk Production: Case Study from River Communities in Peru. Preprints2023, 2023010566. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202301.0566.v1
Gorenstein, S. Government Rationality and Risk Production: Case Study from River Communities in Peru. Preprints 2023, 2023010566. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202301.0566.v1
Gorenstein, S. Government Rationality and Risk Production: Case Study from River Communities in Peru. Preprints2023, 2023010566. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202301.0566.v1
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Gorenstein, S. (2023). Government Rationality and Risk Production: Case Study from River Communities in Peru. Preprints. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202301.0566.v1
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Gorenstein, S. 2023 "Government Rationality and Risk Production: Case Study from River Communities in Peru" Preprints. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202301.0566.v1
Abstract
Based on ten months of ethnographic fieldwork in marginal, low-income, Belenino river communities located in Iquitos, a fluvial city in the Amazon basin. By using ethnographic methods and semi-structured interviews, this article traces how risk is associated with life in Belenino communities and how the identity of Beleninos and the river at the heart of a resettlement project are politically constructed rather than empirically constructed. In this case study of resettlement, understandings of risk and development by Belenino river communities and the government both conflicted and overlapped, I identified three elements that help to shape the concept of risk in both groups that highlight the disjunctive meanings provided by culture and demonstrate the complexity of the analysis of both populations. Finally, by putting the state’s weak presence after a developmental project failure under ethnographic approximation, the article reveals an imbalance in validity and power in terms of the perspectives of the river and Belen.
Keywords
Risk; resettlement; governmentality; development; river communities
Subject
Social Sciences, Sociology
Copyright:
This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
