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    How dams climb mountains: China and India’s state-making hydropower contest in the Eastern-Himalaya watershed.Ruth Gamble - 2019 - Thesis Eleven 150 (1):42-67.
    The dam rush in the upper-Brahmaputra River basin and local, minority resistance to it are the result of complex geopolitical and parochial causes. India and China’s competing claims for sovereignty over the watershed depend upon British and Qing Dynasty imperial precedents respectively. And the two nation-states have extended and enhanced their predecessors’ claims on the area by continuing to erase local sovereignty, enclose the commons, and extract natural resources on a large scale. Historically, the upper basin’s terrain forestalled the thorough (...)
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    Watersheds in watersheds: The fate of the planet’s major river systems in the Great Acceleration.Ruth Gamble & Trevor Hogan - 2019 - Thesis Eleven 150 (1):3-25.
    Humans have, by biological necessity, always lived in watersheds. This article provides an overview of humans’ relationship to these watersheds as an introduction to a special issue of Thesis Eleven on watersheds. It describes the basic functioning of watersheds, how humans have always depended on them, and how they have slowly begun to manipulate them. Humans across the planet began by making strategic adjustments to water’s downward flow to aid the procurement of water and fish. As small states, empires, and (...)
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    (1 other version)Review of mark Siderits, personal identity and buddhist philosophy: Empty persons. [REVIEW]Ruth Gamble - 2008 - Sophia 47 (1):83-86.