UID:
edocfu_9959677625002883
Format:
1 online resource (249 p.)
ISBN:
0-8223-5756-9
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0-8223-7621-0
Series Statement:
New ecologies for the twenty-first century
Content:
〈div〉In this compelling ethnography, Jessica Barnes demonstrates how the waters of the Nile are constantly made and remade as a resource by people in and outside of Egypt. Looking at the practices of farmers, government bureaucrats, and NGO policymakers, she illuminates the range of political dynamics, social relations, and technological interventions that must be incorporated into understandings of water and its management.〈BR〉〈/div〉
Note:
Description based upon print version of record.
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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.
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English
Additional Edition:
ISBN 1-322-04747-2
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-8223-5741-0
Language:
English
DOI:
10.1515/9780822376217
URL:
https://doi.org/10.1515/9780822376217
URL:
https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780822376217
