Southern megadams run on transnational funding while American ones were nationally contained

Evidence

The aesthetic contrasts embedded in all this are deeply informed by divergent economic structures. The contest over the Colorado dams remained internal to the United States: the economics of the megadams was federally managed and nationally contained. By contrast, the damming of the Narmada Valley—as is typical in the global South, from Panama, Guatel-mala, and Belize to Cameroon, Cambodia, and Krygystan—was dependent on transnational funding structures of neoliberal globalization. Hence the Sardar Sarovar became an iconic battle with ramifications far beyond India. This is where Roy, for all her contentiousness within India, became an indispensable translator for international audiences of the wider implications the Narmada Valley struggle had for environmental justice movements elsewhere. — Rob Nixon, Slow Violence and the Environmentalism…, 438

Categorization

• XREF: Directly extends the reader’s ch8 claim that capital moves freely while ecologically dispossessed people become stationary displaced. — connects to: Southern megadams masked dependence and corruption beneath independence glamour — Rob Nixon, Slow Violence and the Environmentalism…, 466

Broader Connections

• Southern megadams masked dependence and corruption beneath independence glamour #expands (0.90) — Rob Nixon, Slow Violence and the Environmentalism…, 466