Split Waters: The Idea of Water Conflicts

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