Citations:Rhodanian

English citations of Rhodanians and Rhodanian

• 2011, Sara B. Pritchard, Confluence: The Nature of Technology and the Remaking of the Rhône, Cambridge/London: Harvard University Press, →ISBN, chapter 1: “Envisioning a New Rhône”, page 41:

  Édouard Herriot, a leading figure in the Radical Party and future prime minister, defended local perspectives while arguing that the state should take up the urgent cause of the Rhône’s multipurpose development, and he hoped to convene all interested groups to participate collectively in decision making. Yet Herriot demanded that national officials be excluded from the discussion, avowing that the right to decide the river’s future should be reserved exclusively for Rhodanians and their political representatives.

• ibidem, page 42:

  Although laudable in many ways, Perrier ultimately failed to eliminate conflict among interest groups or to outline a clear formula for fair representation. His regional statism crystallized, rather than mitigated, the decades-old conflicts among constituencies in the Rhône valley, and between Parisians and Rhodanians.

• ibidem, chapter 2: “Imagining the Nation’s River”, page 58:

  Nonetheless, while Herriot and Perrier had hoped to develop the Rhône by and for Rhodanians during the early twentieth century, the experience of World War II and its legacy, the onset of the Cold War, and the perceived hegemony of the United States helped reframe the meaning of the river’s development after 1945.

• ibidem, page 66:

  As an article in Paris match put it, Donzère-Mondragon enabled the “return to old sources [of energy] in order to forge the future,” and other journalists emphasized that the CNR’s “development plan” would “safeguard Rhodanian partimony” for “future generations” and continue to allow traditional activities such as fishing.

• ibidem, chapter 5: “Rethinking the Nation”, page 179:

  Meanwhile, some communities along the lower Rhône complained that the BRL’s project allowed inland residents to receive “their” water, a grievance that echoed Rhodanians’ objections in the late nineteenth century, when Parisians and northern industrialists had sought access to Rhône-produced electricity.

• ibidem, chapter 7: “A New Modern”, page 224:

  Some fishers opposed Brégnier-Cordon because it would destroy several lônes, a specifically Rhodanian term for the small, temporary islands created by the river’s meanders that created especially rich fish habitat.