Split Waters: The Idea of Water Conflicts

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Cover Endorsement Page Half Title Title Page Copyright Page Table of Contents List of figures List of tables List of contributors Foreword Acknowledgements Introduction: Water conflicts: the social life of an idea What an idea is (and isn’t) The social life of an idea Part 1 Agential purchase of the idea of water conflict Chapter 1: Bowles in the UK Chapter 2: Mabon and Kawabe in Japan Chapter 3: Roth, Warner and Winnbust in the Netherlands Part 2 Instrumentalisation of the idea of water conflict Chapter 4: Bloodworth in the USA Chapter 5: Kroepsch in the USA Chapter 6: Lazzaretti in India Part 3 Naturalisation of environmental, ecological, technological and historical relations Chapter 7: Moreno Quintero and Selfa in Colombia Chapter 8: Grandi in Egypt and Ethiopia Chapter 9: Bresnihan in Bolivia Chapter 10: Van Hemert, Polsani and Ramnath in India Conclusion Notes References Part 1: Agential purchase of the idea Chapter 1: Can’t trust: The boaters of the waterways of South East England versus ‘the charity that makes you homeless’ Introduction Introducing the boaters ‘Condemned to drift or else be kept from drifting’ The water conflict Boaters and the state The water conflict as a contested narrative ‘Water, water, everywhere, nor any a drop to drink’: 11 water points and sanitation facilities Case 1: Old Ford Lock (Regent’s Canal) Case 2: the Olympics Conclusion Notes References Chapter 2: Fighting against harmful rumours, or for fisheries?: Evaluating framings and narrations of risk governance in marine radiation after the Fukushima nuclear accident Introduction Background: 11 March 2011 and thereafter Effects on fisheries Fuhyo higai: harmful rumours From Fukushima fisheries to Iwaki fisheries to Joban fisheries Discussion Conclusions Notes References Chapter 3: Room for the river, no room for conflict: Narratives of participation, win-win, consensus, and co-creation in Dutch spatial flood risk management Introduction From dikes to space: Dutch flood risk management policies at the crossroads Dike reinforcement: ‘battle against water’ The spatial turn: making ‘room for the river’ and ‘accommodating the water’ The Delta programme: ‘working together with water’ Losing the political? Three cases of depoliticised flood risk management intervention From dike enhancement towards radical spatial solutions: conflict about the Ooijpolder Kampen: river bypass as vehicle for urban planning Any real alternatives? Contested plans for a river bypass in Varik-Heesselt Analysing conflicts about spatial flood risk management policies: the consensus bias Conclusion Notes References Part 2: Instrumentalisation of the idea of water conflict Chapter 4: Tocks Island and the end of the big dam era in the USA Introduction Background of federal water conflicts Esprit de Corps The rise of recreation and environmentalism Changing the rules of the game Land acquisition Media wars Sunfish pond Sunfish media blitz Squatters and hippies! Conclusion Notes References Chapter 5: When oil meets water: Debating the hydraulic fracturing energy–water nexus in Colorado Introduction The energy–water nexus The South Platte river basin Theoretical and methodological framework Results Media coverage of the hydraulic fracturing debate Competition framing: who wins and loses relative to this new water use? Comparing narrations: media representations, everyday accounts Conclusion Notes References Chapter 6: Water and conflicts around religious heritage: Oscillations between centre and periphery? Introduction Minor water places and conflicts A conflicted space: the Vishvanath temple–Gyan Vapi mosque compound The well of knowledge in the narration of a conflicted space From centre to periphery: water neglected amidst security and development Security concerns Development and ‘beautification’ Contested narratives and future scenarios Notes References Part 3: Naturalisation of ecological, technological, and historical relations Chapter 7: Taming the Cauca river: Community and sugar landowners’ contrasting narratives in addressing flood risk in Valle del Cauca, Colombia Introduction The context of the study: tracing the origins of narratives of flood risk management in the region Water has memory: the flooding years of 2010 and 2011 Leaving room for the river: from the Netherlands to Colombia Clashing narratives: leaving room for the river in a sugarcane region Conclusions Notes References Chapter 8: Images of the Nile: How competing narratives frame water disputes The hydropolitics of the Nile: its evolution in a dynamic and uncertain context From the political framing of water conflict to the hydro-framing of political disputes Images from the Nile delta: narratives of river glorification in Egypt Images from the Ethiopian highlands: the resentment towards the Nile Conclusions: the framing of water dispute in the eastern Nile Notes References Chapter 9: Infrastructural care and water politics in Cochabamba, Bolivia ‘And after the water wars … what?’ 1 Collective water provisioning Infrastructural care Whose right to water? More-than-human infrastructures Conclusion Notes References Chapter 10: The negation of change as a narrative strategy of control: The case of the Polavaram mega-dam in India Introduction The Polavaram project The project on paper Brief history Approach to narrative analysis Hegemonic narrative The multipurpose mega-dam as a timeless solution Land-for-land as an innovative social policy Counter-narratives Questioning the project’s benefits Land alienation The practice of compensation Land, forest, food Conclusion Notes References Conclusion: Deepening the conversation around water conflicts Introduction Locating the book in the work of the Water Conflicts Forum Hirakud conflict and its narration 3 Deepening and broadening the conversation among activists and researchers Conclusion Notes References Index