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Water Politics and Political Culture

2015-10-19 Technology & Engineering
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Release : 2015-10-19
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Book Synopsis Water Politics and Political Culture by : Onur Oktem

Download or read book Water Politics and Political Culture written by Onur Oktem. This book was released on 2015-10-19. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents an analysis of the main traits of the Turkish political culture and articulates some of the most important deeply embedded social qualifications of political life in Turkey. It reveals that when water management is historically and socially shaped by heavily technical knowledge systems of engineering it becomes a particularly useful tool for various political interests. The book analyses how Turkish freshwater management is socially constructed as both an engineering discourse and a paternalistic bureaucratic transaction. Such a construction stands in stark contrast to the water management discourse of the European Water Framework Directive (WFD), the European Union’s common water policy. Of all the issues faced in Turkish water management, none are as important and problematic as the issue of complying with European Union (EU) accession criteria. Not only is water socially, economically and environmentally important; its water management is a useful prism through which the EU accession process can be viewed as a whole. It showcases the complementarities and divergences between Turkish and EU bureaucratic constructs and value systems.

Water: Culture, Politics and Management

2009
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Release : 2009
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Book Synopsis Water: Culture, Politics and Management by : India International Centre

Download or read book Water: Culture, Politics and Management written by India International Centre. This book was released on 2009. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Water: Culture, Politics and Management comprises essays highlighting the cause of conservation of water, illustrating how water has been treated in mythology, revealing the ecological messages underlying these myths, and describing the culture that developed around water. Also essays on maritime trade, the craft of boat- and ship-building, politics of water emerging out of issues like dam construction, pollution of rivers and the scope of social services in flood-ravaged areas, imagery of water in Indian cinema, poems, photographs are included.

The Oxford Handbook of Water Politics and Policy

2018 Political Science
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Release : 2018
Genre : Political Science
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Book Synopsis The Oxford Handbook of Water Politics and Policy by : Ken Conca

Download or read book The Oxford Handbook of Water Politics and Policy written by Ken Conca. This book was released on 2018. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This handbook is currently in development, with individual articles publishing online in advance of print publication. At this time, we cannot add information about unpublished articles in this handbook, however the table of contents will continue to grow as additional articles pass through the review process and are added to the site. Please note that the online publication date for this handbook is the date that the first article in the title was published online. For more information, please read the site FAQs.

Political Culture and Water Politics in Nevada

1992 Environmental policy
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Release : 1992
Genre : Environmental policy
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Book Synopsis Political Culture and Water Politics in Nevada by : Andrea K. Gerlak

Download or read book Political Culture and Water Politics in Nevada written by Andrea K. Gerlak. This book was released on 1992. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Water, Power and Identity

2015-04-10 Political Science
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Release : 2015-04-10
Genre : Political Science
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Book Synopsis Water, Power and Identity by : Rutgerd Boelens

Download or read book Water, Power and Identity written by Rutgerd Boelens. This book was released on 2015-04-10. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book addresses two major issues in natural resource management and political ecology: the complex conflicting relationship between communities managing water on the ground and national/global policy-making institutions and elites; and how grassroots defend against encroachment, question the self-evidence of State-/market-based water governance, and confront coercive and participatory boundary policing (‘normal’ vs. ‘abnormal’). The book examines grassroots building of multi-layered water-rights territories, and State, market and expert networks’ vigorous efforts to reshape these water societies in their own image – seizing resources and/or aligning users, identities and rights systems within dominant frameworks. Distributive and cultural politics entwine. It is shown that attempts to modernize and normalize users through universalized water culture, ‘rational water use’ and de-politicized interventions deepen water security problems rather than alleviating them. However, social struggles negotiate and enforce water rights. User collectives challenge imposed water rights and identities, constructing new ones to strategically acquire water control autonomy and re-moralize their waterscapes. The author shows that battles for material control include the right to culturally define and politically organize water rights and territories. Andean illustrations from Peru, Ecuador, Bolivia and Chile, from peasant-indigenous life stories to international policy-making, highlight open and subsurface hydro-social networks. They reveal how water justice struggles are political projects against indifference, and that engaging in re-distributive policies and defying ‘truth politics,’ extends context-particular water rights definitions and governance forms.

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