Jacques Leslie
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"In Deep Water, Jacques Leslie dramatizes the effects of dams to tell the story of globalization and the world we live in. In the great tradition of long-form reportage, he went afield with three experts on dams: Medha Patkar, a charismatic Indian activist who has fought against the completion of a giant dam in India by chaining herself to it each year as the water rises, threatening to let herself be drowned unless construction is ceased; a Berkeley...