The SAGLS aimed to connect -using nuclear excavation techniques, if necessary- the Amazon and other mayor rivers of the continent into a series of massive interlocked artificial reservoirs. Its goal was to “improve” the environmental, economic, social, cultural, and political landscapes of South America. Craib ( “South American Great Lakes System” (SAGLS) was a geographical engineering project of the 1960s that was never implemented. Taming the Insurgent Tropical Landscapes: Cold War, Geographical Engineering and the Cartographies of Underdevelopment in Latin America (1960-1973). My dissertation focus on mega-infrastructures, hydro-power, counterinsurgency, cartography and development programs in Latin America during the Cold War. My research combines the history of cartography, science and technology studies, geopolitics, environmental history and digital humanities.
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