Publications of Christine Folch    :chronological  alphabetical  combined listing:

%% Books   
@book{fds346251,
   Author = {Folch, C},
   Title = {Hydropolitics The Itaipu Dam, Sovereignty, and the
             Engineering of Modern South America},
   Pages = {272 pages},
   Publisher = {Princeton University Press},
   Year = {2019},
   Month = {September},
   ISBN = {9780691186603},
   Abstract = {An in-depth look at the people and institutions connected
             with the Itaipoe Dam, the world's biggest producer of
             renewable energy, Hydropolitics is a groundbreaking
             investigation of the world's largest power plant and the
             ways energy shapes ...},
   Key = {fds346251}
}


%% Published Articles   
@article{fds361758,
   Author = {Wasti, A and Ray, P and Wi, S and Folch, C and Ubierna, M and Karki,
             P},
   Title = {Climate change and the hydropower sector: A global
             review},
   Journal = {Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Climate
             Change},
   Volume = {13},
   Number = {2},
   Year = {2022},
   Month = {March},
   url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/wcc.757},
   Abstract = {Renewable sources of electricity, such as solar and wind,
             need to be paired with sources of reliable baseload.
             Hydropower is a renewable, low-emission source of
             electricity baseload available throughout much of the world
             as an alternative to electricity conventionally provided by
             thermal combustion of fossil fuels; however, the global
             hydropower sector as it stands relies upon surface water
             flows of substantial and predictable volume. This makes it
             vulnerable to climate change. The impact of climate change
             on the hydropower sector is difficult to predict, and not
             globally uniform. It might be positive, negative, or
             inconsequential depending upon the local timing and
             magnitude of changes, reservoir size, allocation priority,
             and the energy market. The secondary effects of climate
             change on glacier lake outbursts floods, landslides, and
             sediment load are poorly understood. In addition, when
             planning hydropower projects for the future, attention must
             be given to the greenhouse gas contribution of the impounded
             waters behind storage dams, and the impact of dams on water
             temperature. In the past decade, sovereign nations and
             international development agencies worldwide have evaluated
             the potential of hydropower as a cost-effective, clean,
             sustainable option for baseload electricity supply. There is
             therefore a crucial need to assess the opportunities and
             risks hydropower poses across a wide range of potential
             future climate conditions. This review paper conducts a
             global survey of the literature on the effect of climate
             change on hydropower and identifies room for improvement in
             current approaches to evaluation of the net benefits of
             hydropower projects under climate change. This article is
             categorized under: Vulnerability and Adaptation to Climate
             Change > Learning from Cases and Analogies Assessing Impacts
             of Climate Change > Evaluating Future Impacts of Climate
             Change.},
   Doi = {10.1002/wcc.757},
   Key = {fds361758}
}

@article{fds355643,
   Author = {Folch, C},
   Title = {Ceremony, Medicine, Caffeinated Tea: Unearthing the
             Forgotten Faces of the North American Stimulant Yaupon (Ilex
             vomitoria)},
   Journal = {Comparative Studies in Society and History},
   Volume = {63},
   Number = {2},
   Pages = {464-498},
   Publisher = {Cambridge University Press (CUP)},
   Year = {2021},
   Month = {April},
   url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0010417521000116},
   Abstract = {Yaupon (the unfortunately named Ilex vomitoria) is a holly
             commonly used as yard décor in the southeast United States,
             but many North Americans will be surprised to learn that it
             is the source of a stimulant tea that has been in continuous
             use for nearly a millennium. Yaupon is more than a drink; it
             is a window into questions of identity, community belonging,
             and how the New World was inserted into the global economy.
             From Cabeza de Vaca's sixteenth-century brush with the
             beverage, yaupon has iterated between ceremony, medicine,
             and caffeinated tea as inhabitants of North
             America-Indigenous, enslaved, and settler colonial
             inhabitants of North America-have harnessed the leaf's
             properties to different, culturally situated aims. This
             article traces narratives, recipes, and medical descriptions
             of yaupon from contact to the present, and compares these
             against material and archeological records to explore
             differences between settler and extractive colonial
             encounters with Indigenous psychoactive substances (and thus
             indigeneity). The story of yaupon reveals contests between
             regimes of knowledge, the political economy of colonialisms,
             and the fraught intersections of identity and cuisine.
             Despite abundant ethnographic, documentary, and scientific
             evidence to the contrary, the scientific and medical
             literature long mislabeled yaupon as emetic. This raises
             questions about how knowledge is transferred and how
             scientific authority is constructed. I argue that
             indigeneity, race, and class have steered how yaupon has
             been understood, and help to explain why a popular
             caffeinated product waned at a time when the use of
             stimulants was increasing, and proletarian hunger-killers
             were on the rise.},
   Doi = {10.1017/S0010417521000116},
   Key = {fds355643}
}

@article{fds336349,
   Author = {Folch, C},
   Title = {The nature of sovereignty in the anthropocene: Hydroelectric
             lessons of struggle, otherness, and economics from
             paraguay},
   Journal = {Current Anthropology},
   Volume = {57},
   Number = {5},
   Pages = {565-585},
   Publisher = {University of Chicago Press},
   Year = {2016},
   Month = {October},
   url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1086/688580},
   Abstract = {Leftist former Bishop Fernando Lugo came to power in
             Paraguay in 2008 with the pledge to “recover Paraguay’s
             hydroelectric sovereignty” from Brazil by demanding
             greater control of the energy and finances of Itaipú
             Binational Hydroelectric Dam. This article explores what is
             meant by “hydroelectric sovereignty” and argues for a
             new approach to how to theorize sovereignty within
             anthropology by urging that scholars move beyond a focus on
             the exception, biopower, and bare life. The (re)turn I
             propose situates sovereignty historically in terms of
             nature, economics, cultural otherness, and imperialism by
             engaging an older genealogy of sovereignty, the
             sixteenth-century Spanish school of Salamanca, which
             centered on the rights of indigenous peoples to control
             their natural resources and govern themselves. This
             tradition gave rise to international law, setting in place a
             framework that continues to structure the global economy and
             natural resources, including the hydroelectric potential of
             Itaipú Dam. By exploring how hydroelectric sovereignty is
             an example of theorizing from the margins, I show how the
             asymmetrical dominance between Brazil and Paraguay, the
             desirability of natural resources in a time of environmental
             scarcity, and the supremacy of economic imperative presage
             twenty-first-century changes in eco-environmental
             sovereignties.},
   Doi = {10.1086/688580},
   Key = {fds336349}
}

@article{fds292443,
   Author = {Folch, C},
   Title = {The Cause of All Paraguayans? Defining and Defending
             Hydroelectric Sovereignty},
   Journal = {Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Anthropology},
   Volume = {20},
   Number = {2},
   Pages = {242-263},
   Publisher = {WILEY},
   Year = {2015},
   Month = {January},
   ISSN = {1935-4932},
   url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/jlca.12147},
   Abstract = {Although Paraguay produces (and exports) more hydroelectric
             energy per capita than any other country in the region,
             these resources are situated on the border with Argentina
             and Brazil, inflecting national energy matters with
             transnational complexities. Popular sectors framed Itaipú
             (with Brazil) and Yacyretá (with Argentina) dams as
             imperialistic predation. In the last decade, the Paraguayan
             nation became the possessor of "hydroelectric sovereignty,"
             which is always threatened. Energy experts from the left
             conceptualized hydroelectric sovereignty as the proper
             relationship of "nation" to "territory" mediated by the
             "state," through grassroots struggles to regain control of
             the country's hydroelectric resources. As part of an ethic
             of renewable energy, "hydroelectric sovereignty" results in
             a new kind of territoriality. Through the discursive and
             civic creation of hydroelectric sovereignty in an electoral
             campaign to "recover hydroelectric sovereignty," I show how
             "nature" and "nation" are altered by hydroelectric
             statecraft, political-economic and symbolic structures that
             emanate from hydroelectricity.},
   Doi = {10.1111/jlca.12147},
   Key = {fds292443}
}

@article{fds350287,
   Author = {Folch, C},
   Title = {The Paraguay Reader: History, Culture, Politics},
   Journal = {Hispanic American Historical Review},
   Volume = {94},
   Number = {2},
   Pages = {306-307},
   Publisher = {Duke University Press},
   Year = {2014},
   Month = {May},
   url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1215/00182168-2641316},
   Doi = {10.1215/00182168-2641316},
   Key = {fds350287}
}

@article{fds292442,
   Author = {FOLCH, C},
   Title = {Surveillance and State Violence in Stroessner's Paraguay:
             Itaipú Hydroelectric Dam, Archive of Terror},
   Journal = {American Anthropologist},
   Volume = {115},
   Number = {1},
   Pages = {44-57},
   Publisher = {American Anthropological Association},
   Year = {2013},
   ISSN = {1548-1433},
   url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1548-1433.2012.01534.x},
   Abstract = {Like other dictators, Paraguay's Alfredo Stroessner staked
             his regime's claims to modernity on a massive hydroelectric
             project, Itaipú Dam. Critiques of dams tend to focus on
             environmental degradation caused by flooding, forced
             displacement of communities, and fiscal malfeasance. But
             Itaipú, the world's largest dam, also participated in the
             Stroessner regime's secret police terror apparatus. A series
             of formerly classified documents about Itaipú Dam show how
             the secret police used the dam in its security and
             intelligence apparatus to violently suppress any opposition.
             They also reveal how the opposition to the Stronato grew and
             mobilized around the dam. By interlacing these two threads,
             this historical ethnography explores "hydroelectric
             statecraft" in Itaipú Dam-that is, how the harnessing of
             the dam's resources has given rise to particular political
             practices and structures within Paraguay. RESUMEN El
             dictador paraguayo, Alfredo Stroessner, basó el modernismo
             de su régimen en un proyecto hidroeléctrico gigantesco, la
             represa Itaipú Binacional. Las críticas sobre los efectos
             políticos de represas se centran en tres áreas:
             degradación ambiental, el desalojo forzado de comunidades,
             e irregularidades financieras. Mas Itaipú Binacional, la
             represa más grande del mundo, también formó parte del
             aparato del terror de la dictadura stronista. Por medio de
             unos documentos secretos que se trataron de o circulaban por
             la Itaipú, esta obra de etnografía histórica narra dos
             historias: la primera, cómo la dictadura usó la represa
             para reprimir la oposición; la segunda, cómo la oposición
             creció por medio de sus manifestaciones contra la represa.
             Juntos, estos dos hilos muestran "la política de estado
             hidroeléctrico" de Itaipú-es decir, cómo el
             aprovechamiento de los recursos de la represa ha resultado
             en prácticas y estructuras políticas distintas dentro del
             Paraguay. © 2013 by the American Anthropological
             Association.},
   Doi = {10.1111/j.1548-1433.2012.01534.x},
   Key = {fds292442}
}

@article{fds292441,
   Author = {Folch, C},
   Title = {Stimulating consumption: Yerba mate myths, markets, and
             meanings from conquest to present},
   Journal = {Comparative Studies in Society and History},
   Volume = {52},
   Number = {1},
   Pages = {6-36},
   Publisher = {Cambridge University Press (CUP)},
   Year = {2010},
   Month = {January},
   ISSN = {0010-4175},
   url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0010417509990314},
   Abstract = {Before Najla passes me the gourd brimming with yerba mate,
             she makes sure to wipe the end of the metal drinking straw
             with the fragrant leaves of a local herbfor the flavor and
             to clean it she explains in her Venezuela-accented Spanish.
             We sit under the welcome shade of a veranda, each taking our
             turn to drain the gourd and then returning it to Najla to
             fill once more with warm water from the teakettle. After
             splashing a pitcher of cold water on the concrete to cool
             it, her husband offers us a rare privilege: the liberty to
             ask any question we wish about the Druze religion. The
             Druze, an offshoot from eleventh-century Shi'a Islam, are
             endogamous and usually reveal the tenets of their faith only
             to those born within their community. Though we are speaking
             a mixture of English and Spanish, we are all guests at the
             Lebanese mountaintop home of Najla's deceased grandfather,
             an important Druze warlord during the civil war of the 1970s
             and 1980s. Najla and her husband are vacationing from their
             home in the Persian Gulf and staying with her unmarried
             female cousins, our hosts. Copyright © 2010 Society for the
             Comparative Study of Society and History.},
   Doi = {10.1017/S0010417509990314},
   Key = {fds292441}
}

@article{fds292440,
   Author = {FOLCH, C},
   Title = {Fine Dining: Race in Pre-Revolution Cuban
             Cookbooks},
   Journal = {Latin American research review},
   Volume = {43},
   Number = {2},
   Pages = {205-223},
   Year = {2008},
   ISSN = {1542-4278},
   Abstract = {This article treats pre-1959 Cuban cookbooks as
             interlocutors to see how the struggle to define Cuba's
             racial and national body can be found in efforts to
             characterize what goes into that body by setting a close
             textual analysis of the books alongside an account of their
             historical context. In examining recipes, visuals, and
             nonrecipe prose, this article explores how later authors
             attempt to represent Cuba as white and European by ignoring
             and trivializing the culinary contributions of nonwhite
             Cubans and particularly Afro-Cubans, a move that encounters
             resistance in the ongoing persistence and popularity of
             Afro-Cuban cuisine. As an interface between political
             economic processes and personal choice, the author argues
             that cookbooks act as a site for assertions of racial and
             national identity in which some authors embarked on a racial
             project to civilize the consumer by civilizing cuisine via
             the cookbook, thus illustrating social fissures, tensions,
             and contradictions that climaxed in the 1959 revolution. ©
             2008 by the Latin American Studies Association.},
   Key = {fds292440}
}


%% Articles & Book Chapters   
@article{fds340104,
   Author = {Folch, C},
   Title = {Ciudad del Este and the common market: A tale of two
             economic integrations},
   Pages = {267-284},
   Booktitle = {Big Water: The Making of the Borderlands Between Brazil,
             Argentina, and Paraguay},
   Year = {2018},
   Month = {January},
   ISBN = {9780816537143},
   Key = {fds340104}
}