Democratising Micro-Hydel: Structures, Systems and Agents in Adaptive Technology in the Hills of Nepal - Softcover

Regmi, Amreeta

Softcover

ISBN 10: 8125026770 ISBN 13: 9788125026778

Publisher: Orient Longman, 2004

Synopsis

Micro-hydel technology is often percieved as a 'community-oriented' alternative system of rural electrification. This book documents micro-hydel technology realities and hydropower policy by mapping an interdisciplinary technography of four hydel systems from the Central Hills of Nepal. It examines how these socio-technical systems have been constructed within and by the community during a period when the research area exploded into local action generated by the Maoist movement. This book shows that hydel technology in Nepal illustrates significant characteristics of authoritarianism in design. It further reveals that society and humans shape 'technological democracy'. The adaptive micro-hydel not only represents illumination and development but also identity, conflict, power, violence, control and democracy.

Edition details

• Publisher: Orient Longman
• Publication date: 2004
• ISBN 10: 8125026770
• ISBN 13: 9788125026778
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 307