Cultivating the Nile

The Everyday Politics of Water in Egypt

Jessica Barnes (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

248 Seiten

2014
Duke University Press (Verlag)
978-0-8223-5756-8 (ISBN)

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The waters of the Nile are fundamental to life in Egypt. In this compelling ethnography, Jessica Barnes explores the everyday politics of water: a politics anchored in the mundane yet vital acts of blocking, releasing, channeling, and diverting water. She examines the quotidian practices of farmers, government engineers, and international donors as they interact with the waters of the Nile flowing into and through Egypt. Situating these local practices in relation to broader processes that affect Nile waters, Barnes moves back and forth from farmer to government ministry, from irrigation canal to international water conference. By showing how the waters of the Nile are constantly made and remade as a resource by people in and outside Egypt, she demonstrates the range of political dynamics, social relations, and technological interventions that must be incorporated into understandings of water and its management.

Jessica Barnes is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Geography and the Environment and Sustainability Program at the University of South Carolina.

A Note on Transliteration, Units, and Abbreviations vii Preface ix Acknowledgments xv 1. The End of a River 1 2. The Nile's Nadir: The Production of Scarcity 35 3. Fluid Governance: Water User Associations and Practices of Participation 72 4. Irrigating the Desert, Deserting the Irrigated: Land Reclamation at the Margins 106 5. Flows of Drainage: The Politics of Excess 137 6. Making Egypt's Water 169 Notes 179 References 199 Notes 223

Reihe/Serie	New Ecologies for the Twenty-First Century
Zusatzinfo	24 illustrations
Verlagsort	North Carolina
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Gewicht	340 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
	Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Ökologie / Naturschutz
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
	Wirtschaft ► Betriebswirtschaft / Management ► Rechnungswesen / Bilanzen
ISBN-10	0-8223-5756-9 / 0822357569
ISBN-13	978-0-8223-5756-8 / 9780822357568
Zustand	Neuware