Journal
MEDITERRANEAN POLITICS
Volume 27, Issue 3, Pages 297-320Publisher
ROUTLEDGE JOURNALS, TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD
DOI: 10.1080/13629395.2020.1799167
Keywords
Middle East and North Africa; hydraulic infrastructures; water policy; hydraulic mission; hydropolitics
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- Oxford Martin School Programme on Transboundary Resource Management, University of Oxford
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This paper analyzes the trend of massive hydraulic infrastructure construction and how government elites justify their actions, using insights from major transboundary waterscapes. The study identifies four distinctive discursive practices that are efficiently used in the case studies.
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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