Water, technology and the nation-state / edited by Filippo Menga and Erik Swyngedouw.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Menga, Filippo, editor.

Swyngedouw, E. (Erik), editor.

Series:

Earthscan studies in water resource management

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Water resources development--Government policy--Case studies.

Water resources development.

Water resources development--International cooperation--Case studies.

Nation-state--Case studies.

Nation-state.

Nation-building--Case studies.

Nation-building.

Water resources development--International cooperation.

Water resources development--Government policy.

Genre:

Case studies.

Physical Description:

xvi, 225 pages ; 25 cm.

Place of Publication:

Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2018.

Contents:

States of water / Filippo Menga and Erik Swyngedouw

The ocean bountiful? : de-salination, de-politicisation, and binational water governance on the Colorado River / Joe Williams

Piercing the Pyrenees, connecting Catalonia to Europe : the ascendancy and dismissal of the Rhône Water Transfer Project (1994-2016) / Santiago Gorostiza, Hug March and David Saurí

Death by certainty : the Vinça Dam, the French state, and the changing social relations of irrigation the Têt basin of the eastern French Pyrénées / Jamie Linton and Etienne Delay

Big projects, strong states? : large scale investments in irrigation and state formation in the Beles Valley, Ethiopia / Emanuele Fantini, Tesfaye Muluneh and Hermen Smit

Water nationalism in Egypt : state-building, nation-making and Nile hydro-politics / Ramy Hanna and Jeremy Allouche

Troubled waters of hegemony : consent and contestation in Turkey's hydropower landscapes / Bengi Akbulut, Murat Arsel and Fikret Adaman

"The most dam-dense country in Europe" : ethnic conflict and the contradictions of statehood in Cyprus / Panayiota Pyla and Petros Phokaides

Counter-infrastructure as resistance in the hydrosocial territory of the occupied Golan Heights / Muna Dajani and Michael Mason

Development initiatives and transboundary water politics in the Talas waterscape (Kyrgyzstan-Kazakhstan) : towards the conflicting borderlands hydrosocial cycle / Andrea Zinzani

Speculation and seismicity : reconfiguring the hydropower future in post-earthquake Nepal / Austin Lord

Irrigational illusions, national delusions and idealised constructions of water, agriculture and society in Southeast Asia : the case of Thailand / David J.H. Blake

Building a dam for China in the Three Gorges region, 1919-1971 / Covell F. Meyskens.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781138724655

1138724653

OCLC:

1016049073