Abstract: Riverscapes are constructs that mix natural components with political, socioeconomic, and technicalstrategies. This article shows how the riverscapes of the Rh^one in France have changed under the influenceof different power relations. We use newspapers to highlight the potential of news outlets as a data sourcewith which to apply Foucault’s critical and genealogical methods and to develop a political ecology ofsocioecological fixes. Media coverage is proxied by a content analysis and textual data analysis of 1,079articles published in Le Mon...
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Political economy