UID:
almahu_9949385888602882
Format:
1 online resource (x, 211 pages)
ISBN:
9781000042764
,
1000042766
,
9781003026402
,
1003026400
,
9781000042801
,
1000042804
Content:
This book examines Nile water security through the morphology of the river: it uses the always changing form of the river as a theoretical and empirical device to map and understand how infrastructures and discourses dynamically interact with the Nile. By bringing a history of two centuries of dam development on the Nile in relation with the drainage of a hill slope in Ethiopia on the one hand and irrigation reform in Sudan on the other, the author shows how the scales, units and 'populations' figuring in projects to securitize the river emerge through the rearrangement of its water and sediments. The analysis of 'Making water security' is more than yet another story of how modern projects of water security have legitimized often violent dispossessions of Nile land and water. It shows how no water user is confined by the roles assigned by project engineers and planners. As ongoing modern 'development' of the river reduces the prospects for new large diversions of water, the targeted subjects of development and modernization make use of newly opened spaces to carve out their own projects. They creatively mobilize old irrigation and drainage infrastructures in ways that escape the universal logic of water security
Note:
Introduction -- Materializing water security: two hundred years of modern hydraulic development on the Nile (1817-2017) -- The political morphology of drainage: how gully formation links to state formation in the Choke Mountains of Ethiopia -- Friction along the canal: reforming irrigation infrastrucutre and water user identities in the Gezira irrigation scheme in Sudan -- The (re)making of a water accounting culture: entanglements of water science and development in the Waha irrigation scheme in Sudan -- Conclusion
Additional Edition:
Print version: SMIT, HERMEN. MAKING WATER SECURITY. [S.l.] : CRC PRESS, 2020 ISBN 0367460041
Language:
English
Keywords:
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URL:
https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/9781003026402
