Small is beautiful but not trendy: Understanding the allure of big hydraulic works in the Euphrates-Tigris and Nile waterscapes

被引:28
作者
Hussein, Hussam [1 ]
Conker, Ahmet [2 ]
Grandi, Mattia [3 ]
机构
[1] Univ Oxford, Dept Polit & Int Relat DPIR, Oxford, England
[2] Yildiz Tech Univ, Dept Polit Sci & Int Relat, Istanbul, Turkey
[3] Scuola Super Sant Anna, Dirpolis Inst, Pisa, Italy
关键词
Middle East and North Africa; hydraulic infrastructures; water policy; hydraulic mission; hydropolitics; ANATOLIA PROJECT GAP; WATER; DAMS; CONFLICT; POLITICS; ETHIOPIA; ROGUN; POWER; WAR;
D O I
10.1080/13629395.2020.1799167
中图分类号
K9 [地理];
学科分类号
0705 ;
摘要
The number of massive hydraulic infrastructures such as large-scale dams, huge hydropower plants, and broad irrigation networks has increased to an unprecedented level during the twentieth century. While the trend has recently slowed, building giant water infrastructures is still an utmost priority in many parts of the world across state elites. Informed by insights from major transboundary waterscapes - the river basins of the Euphrates-Tigris and the Nile - this paper analyses how states ' elites justify their hydraulic mission, finding that four distinctive discursive practices are efficiently used in the case studies: securitization, opportunization, de-politicization, and framing.
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页码:297 / 320
页数:24
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