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Water, Technology and the Nation-State

Water, Technology and the Nation-State

Swyngedouw, Erik
Menga, Filippo

Hardcover

Series: Earthscan Studies in Water Resource Management

Real EstateTechnology & EngineeringGeneral Political Science

ISBN10: 1138724653
ISBN13: 9781138724655
Publisher: Routledge
Published: May 23 2018
Pages: 226
Weight: 1.15
Height: 0.80 Width: 6.10 Depth: 9.30
Language: English

Just as space, territory and society can be socially and politically co-constructed, so can water, and thus the construction of hydraulic infrastructures can be mobilised by politicians to consolidate their grip on power while nurturing their own vision of what the nation is or should become. This book delves into the complex and often hidden connection between water, technological advancement and the nation-state, addressing two major questions. First, the arguments deployed consider how water as a resource can be ideologically constructed, imagined and framed to create and reinforce a national identity, and secondly, how the idea of a nation-state can and is materially co-constituted out of the material infrastructure through which water is harnessed and channelled.

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