Water Politics and Political Culture - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Water Politics and Political Culture write by Onur Oktem. This book was released on 2015-10-19. Water Politics and Political Culture available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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.
The Oxford Handbook of Water Politics and Policy
The Oxford Handbook of Water Politics and Policy - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Oxford Handbook of Water Politics and Policy write by Ken Conca. This book was released on 2018. The Oxford Handbook of Water Politics and Policy available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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 At this time, we cannot add information about unpublished articles in this handbook, however the table of contents will continue to grow as additional articles pass through the review process and are added to the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.
Water: Culture, Politics and Management
Water: Culture, Politics and Management - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Water: Culture, Politics and Management write by India International Centre. This book was released on 2009. Water: Culture, Politics and Management available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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.
Political Culture and Water Politics in Nevada
Political Culture and Water Politics in Nevada - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Political Culture and Water Politics in Nevada write by Andrea K. Gerlak. This book was released on 1992. Political Culture and Water Politics in Nevada available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Water, Power and Identity
Water, Power and Identity - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Water, Power and Identity write by Rutgerd Boelens. This book was released on 2015-04-10. Water, Power and Identity available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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.
