This page will be used to pull together examples of scholarship that are akin to what we are up to with our 6 Cities study, or suggest types of analyses that we should do within the study.
Sara Pritchard's book on the governance of France's Rhone River, titled Confluence: The Nature of Technology and the Remaking of the Rhône (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2011). The book examines "the history of the transformation of France's Rhône River since World War II. She shows not only how technological development and environmental management were central to state building and shifting political identities in France, but also how historical actors reworked the boundaries of nature and technology, both materially and discursively."
Stanley Higenbotham's The Four Faces of Indian Bureacracy, which tries to explain the different "thought styles" of agricultural organizations established in India in different historial periods. Here's a very critical review, which could help us think further about the kinds of organizational analysis that we should (and shouldn't) do.
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Sara Pritchard's book on the governance of France's Rhone River, titled Confluence: The Nature of Technology and the Remaking of the Rhône (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2011). The book examines "the history of the transformation of France's Rhône River since World War II. She shows not only how technological development and environmental management were central to state building and shifting political identities in France, but also how historical actors reworked the boundaries of nature and technology, both materially and discursively."
Stanley Higenbotham's The Four Faces of Indian Bureacracy, which tries to explain the different "thought styles" of agricultural organizations established in India in different historial periods. Here's a very critical review, which could help us think further about the kinds of organizational analysis that we should (and shouldn't) do.