Continuity in a changing environmental discourse: film depictions of Corps of Engineers projects in South Florida |
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| Authors: | William Eugene O’Brien |
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| Institution: | 1. Harriet L. Wilkes Honors College, Florida Atlantic University, 5353 Parkside Drive, Jupiter, FL, 33458, USA
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| Abstract: | The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has undergone an apparent shift from an agency frequently accused of degrading environments to one that now embraces ecological restoration as a primary mission. Through a review of promotional films from the 1950s to the present, this paper assesses the changing ways in which the Corps and their partner resource management agencies represent their activities in the South Florida ecosystem, including the Everglades and Kissimmee River. I assess this paradigm shift in resource management from a feminist perspective illuminating continuities in depictions of science and technology-based ecological interventions. Based on this analysis I suggest that appeals to certainty of knowledge and technological control persist across time despite a shift in managerial ecology toward acknowledging imperfect knowledge and the unintended consequences of technological intervention. |
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