Allen Isaacman
· Regents ProfessorUniversity of Minnesota · History
Active 1967–2025
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About
Allen Isaacman is a Regents Professor in the Department of History at the University of Minnesota. His academic role involves engaging in research and teaching within the field of history, contributing to the department's diverse and interdisciplinary scholarly environment. As a distinguished faculty member, he is recognized for his expertise and leadership in historical studies, although specific details about his research focus, background, or key contributions are not provided in the page text.
Research topics
- Sociology
- Political Science
- Ecology
- Pedagogy
- Law
- Engineering
- Fishery
- Political economy
- Gender studies
- Economics
Selected publications
Dams, Displacement and the Delusion of Development
Ohio University Press eBooks · 2013-01-01 · 91 citations
book1st authorCorrespondingWater Security in Africa in the Age of Global Climate Change
Daedalus · 2021 · 12 citations
1st authorCorrespondingAbstract This essay explores the multiple ways in which the nexuses between water scarcity and climate change are socially and historically grounded in ordinary people's lived experiences and are embedded in specific fields of power. Here we specifically delineate four critical dimensions in which the water crises confronting the African continent in an age of climate change are clearly expressed: the increasing scarcity, privatization, and commodification of water in urban centers; the impact o…
Extending South Africa's Tentacles of Empire: The Deterritorialisation of Cahora Bassa Dam
Journal of Southern African Studies · 2015-05-04 · 6 citations
article1st authorCorrespondingIn 1969, Portugal and South Africa signed an agreement that enabled the apartheid regime effectively to extend its tentacles of empire over the proposed dam at Cahora Bassa. Located in the heart of central Mozambique, far from the South African frontier, the dam became a security project masked as a development initiative. Cahora Bassa, including the massive lake behind the dam, rather than becoming the multi-purpose dam originally envisaged by Portuguese planners, was transformed into a strateg…
Cahora Bassa Dam & the Delusion of Development
Daedalus · 2021 · 4 citations
1st authorCorrespondingAbstract On December 6, 1974, two pressure-driven steel gates of the Cahora Bassa Dam, each weighing 220 tons, stopped the mighty Zambezi River in its course. After five years of toil by more than five thousand workers, the construction of Mozambique's Cahora Bassa was complete. At the time, it was the fifth-largest dam in the world. The hydroelectric dam was the last megaproject constructed in Africa during the turbulent era of decolonization. Through the voices of peasants and fishermen, displ…
Ohio University Press eBooks · 2020-09-08 · 3 citations
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Frequent coauthors
- 32 shared
Barbara Isaacman
- 14 shared
Frederick Cooper
- 12 shared
Derek Peterson
- 10 shared
Yussuf Adam
Fetal Medicine Foundation Belgium
- 10 shared
Patrick Harries
- 10 shared
Benigna Zimba
- 10 shared
Edward A. Alpers
- 9 shared
Ayesha Jalal
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Awards & honors
- Fellow, American Academy of Arts and Sciences, 2002
- College of Liberal Arts Graduate/Professor Teaching Award, U…
- College of Liberal Arts Scholars of the College, University…
- College of Liberal Arts Teaching Award, University of Minnes…
- Fulbright Scholar Award
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