Contested Knowledges: Water Conflicts on Large Dams and Mega-Hydraulic Development

Water acquisition, storage, allocation and distribution are intensely contested in our society, whether, for instance, such issues pertain to a conflict between upstream and downstream farmers located on a small stream or to a large dam located on the border of two nations. Water conflicts are mostl...

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Автори: Shah, Esha, Boelens, Rutgerd, Bruins, Bert
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description Water acquisition, storage, allocation and distribution are intensely contested in our society, whether, for instance, such issues pertain to a conflict between upstream and downstream farmers located on a small stream or to a large dam located on the border of two nations. Water conflicts are mostly studied as disputes around access to water resources or the formulation of water laws and governance rules. However, explicitly or not, water conflicts nearly always also involve disputes among different philosophical views. The contributions to this edited volume have looked at the politics of contested knowledge as manifested in the conceptualisation, design, development, implementation and governance of large dams and mega-hydraulic infrastructure projects in various parts of the world. The special issue has explored the following core questions: Which philosophies and claims on mega-hydraulic projects are encountered, and how are they shaped, validated, negotiated and contested in concrete contexts? Whose knowledge counts and whose knowledge is downplayed in water development conflict situations, and how have different epistemic communities and cultural-political identities shaped practices of design, planning and construction of dams and mega-hydraulic projects? The contributions have also scrutinised how these epistemic communities interactively shape norms, rules, beliefs and values about water problems and solutions, including notions of justice, citizenship and progress that are subsequently to become embedded in material artefacts.
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modernist traditions
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hydraulic utopia
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DR Congo
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knowledge systems
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knowledge politics
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San Lorenzo irrigation project
politics of the governed
North Sikkim
uncertainty
Bolivia
hydrosocial territory
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hydropolitics
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power
socioenvironmental impacts
socio-economic impacts
public knowledge controversies
mega-hydraulic projects
hydropower
environmental impacts
Site C
knowledge encounters
dam safety
Dzumsa
energy policy
anti-dam movement
hydroelectric megaprojects
Spain
hydraulic projects
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co-creation
Mekong River Basin
dehumanizing rationality
hydroelectric development
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Contested Knowledges: Water Conflicts on Large Dams and Mega-Hydraulic Development
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politicized collective identity
first nations
socio-technical imaginaries
dam
political ecology
STS
irrigation
contested knowledge
negotiation
Guatemala
social construction of technology
indigenous peoples
multi-actor multi-scalar alliances
vernacular statecraft
compensation measures
modernist traditions
hydropower development
agonistic unity
Ecuador
anti-dam resistance movements
fantasy
environmental governance
collective action
modernity
depoliticization
British Columbia
hydraulic utopia
A.O. Hirschman
megadams
India
Canada
hiding hand
large dams
Jacques Lacan
commensuration
DR Congo
Málaga
technological design
Peru
knowledge systems
manufactured ignorance
knowledge politics
Himalayas
San Lorenzo irrigation project
politics of the governed
North Sikkim
uncertainty
Bolivia
hydrosocial territory
psychoanalysis
marginalization
territorial control
mega-dam
hazard risk
UnGovernance
hydropolitics
expectations
power
socioenvironmental impacts
socio-economic impacts
public knowledge controversies
mega-hydraulic projects
hydropower
environmental impacts
Site C
knowledge encounters
dam safety
Dzumsa
energy policy
anti-dam movement
hydroelectric megaprojects
Spain
hydraulic projects
Chixoy irrigation project
co-creation
Mekong River Basin
dehumanizing rationality
hydroelectric development
Inga
territory
knowledge arenas
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contested knowledge
negotiation
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social construction of technology
indigenous peoples
multi-actor multi-scalar alliances
vernacular statecraft
compensation measures
modernist traditions
hydropower development
agonistic unity
Ecuador
anti-dam resistance movements
fantasy
environmental governance
collective action
modernity
depoliticization
British Columbia
hydraulic utopia
A.O. Hirschman
megadams
India
Canada
hiding hand
large dams
Jacques Lacan
commensuration
DR Congo
Málaga
technological design
Peru
knowledge systems
manufactured ignorance
knowledge politics
Himalayas
San Lorenzo irrigation project
politics of the governed
North Sikkim
uncertainty
Bolivia
hydrosocial territory
psychoanalysis
marginalization
territorial control
mega-dam
hazard risk
UnGovernance
hydropolitics
expectations
power
socioenvironmental impacts
socio-economic impacts
public knowledge controversies
mega-hydraulic projects
hydropower
environmental impacts
Site C
knowledge encounters
dam safety
Dzumsa
energy policy
anti-dam movement
hydroelectric megaprojects
Spain
hydraulic projects
Chixoy irrigation project
co-creation
Mekong River Basin
dehumanizing rationality
hydroelectric development
Inga
territory
knowledge arenas
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