The Political Economy of ‘Failure’ in The World Bank‐funded Bisri Dam in Lebanon
Mona Khneisser
Abstract:The World Bank‐funded Bisri Dam in Lebanon represents an emblematic case of a high‐modernist project that has foundered on a mix of hydrogeological recalcitrance, popular opposition and compounding crises. Examining the popular contestation surrounding the Bisri Dam, this article offers a socio‐ecological material lens on post‐colonial state building and the political economy of infrastructural failure. Avoiding the analytical impasse of crisis epistemes and heuristics of failure within the long tradition of d… Show more
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