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- Title
Contraflujos: orden hidráulico y ecologías residuales en el paisaje dominicano.
- Authors
BLACKMORE, LISA
- Abstract
This article argues that transnational capitalism is buoyed up by a “hydraulic order:” a paradigm that advocates unfettered flows of capital, commodities, and people as conduits for development. I trace the asymmetries of this paradigm through the landscape formations and visual economy of the Dominican Republic’s mass tourist industry, highlighting how the State exercises “hydraulic power” (Deleuze & Guattari) to produce and regulate a Caribbean fantasy landscape. Against this spectacle, I analyze recent landscape representations in the visual arts to argue that in making visible residual ecologies, and marginal places and subjects, they create counterflows to hydraulic order.
- Subjects
ECOLOGY; CAPITALISM; ECONOMIC systems; ARTS; LANDSCAPES; NATURE; HYDRAULICS; TOURISTS
- Publication
IBEROAMERICANA. América Latina - España - Portugal, 2019, Vol 19, Issue 72, p57
- ISSN
1577-3388
- Publication type
Article