Cultivating the Nile : the everyday politics of water in Egypt / Jessica Barnes.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Barnes, Jessica, 1978-

Series:

New ecologies for the twenty-first century

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Water resources development--Egypt.

Water resources development.

Water-supply--Egypt.

Water-supply.

Water use--Egypt.

Water use.

Nile River.

Nile River Region.

Egypt.

Physical Description:

xvii, 230 pages : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

Durham : Duke University Press, 2014.

Summary:

The waters of the Nile are fundamental to life in Egypt. In this compelling ethnography, Jessica Barnes explores the everyday politics of water: a politics anchored in the mundane yet vital acts of blocking, releasing, channeling, and diverting water. She examines the quotidian practices of farmers, government engineers, and international donors as they interact with the waters of the Nile flowing into and through Egypt. Situating these local practices in relation to broader processes that affect Nile waters, Barnes moves back and forth from farmer to government ministry, from irrigation canal to international water conference. By showing how the waters of the Nile are constantly made and remade as a resource by people in and outside Egypt, she demonstrates the range of political dynamics, social relations, and technological interventions that must be incorporated into understandings of water and its management. Book jacket.

Contents:

The end of a river

The Nile's nadir : the production of scarcity

Fluid governance : water user associations and practices of participation

Irrigating the desert, deserting the irrigated : land reclamation at the margins

Flows of drainage : the politics of excess

Making Egypt's water.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780822357414

0822357410

9780822357568

0822357569

OCLC:

873985190