Waterpower
Politics and the Geography of Water Provision
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 8375789 |
|---|---|
| Authors | John Agnew (0000-0003-3248-409X, University of California, Los Angeles, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2011 |
| Volume | 101 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 463-476 |
| Publication date | 2011-04-25 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Annals of the Association of American Geographers (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0004-5608 • E-ISSN: 1467-8306 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/00045608.2011.560053 |
| OpenAlex | W2143779834 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 34 |
| References cited | 78 |
Access to potable water is frequently said to be the defining world crisis of the twenty-first century. The argument is usually framed in terms of either direct environmental constraints or various totalistic views of how “the political” determines outcomes. There is little or no scope for the agency of practical politics. Both physical and human geographers tend to be dismissive of the possibilities of democratic politics ever resolving “crises” such as those of the geography of water provision, in part because of views of scientific expertise that devalue popular participation in decisions about “technical” matters such as water quality and distribution. Such dismissal also has much to do with a more generalized denigration of politics. Politics (the art of political deliberation, negotiation, and compromise) needs defending against its critics and many of its practitioners. Showing how politics is at work around the world in managing water problems and identifying the challenges that water problems pose for politics provides a retort to those who can only envisage inevitable destruction or a totalistic political panacea as the outcomes of “the crisis of the century.”
Agency (philosophy) · Argument (complex analysis) · Compromise · Democracy · Environmental ethics · Law and economics · Negotiation · Panacea (medicine) · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Social science · Sociology · Law · Transboundary Water Resource Management · Water Governance and Infrastructure · Water resources management and optimization
Governança multi-escalar dos recursos hídricos transfronteiriços na Amazônia
Desigualdades nos padrões de acesso à água e limites da cidadania hídrica em comunidades rurais do semiárido
Resources and Development
Institutional Discourses on Urban Water Poverty, Considering the Example of Dar es Salaam, Tanzania
Water and Ethnic Conflict in Iraq’s Internal Frontier
Water Use Monitoring for Irrigation in the United States
Responsibilization in Water Supply in International Development
Central American integration through infrastructure development
Water privatization, hegemony and civil society
The politics of securitization
Hardin’s legacy as a need for a ‘commoning turn’ in planning
Water Insecurity
Subject, action and polis
Democratic rivalry, institutional fragmentation, and the erosion of equitable water provision in urban Accra
Environmental and political implications of Vietnam's water vulnerabilities
Climate Change and Human Behavior
Liberal water law against itself
Are you Wittfogel or against him? Geophilosophy, hydro-sociality, and the state
Disputed water
Participants or customers in water governance? Community-public partnerships for peri-urban water supply
The Right to Water
How does the discourse surrounding the Murray Darling Basin manage the concept of entitlement to water
Governmentality and the conduct of water
Claiming Space, Claiming Water
Space for the State? Police, Violence, and Urban Poverty in Brazil
Bridging critical institutionalism and fragmented authoritarianism in China
Climate science and slow violence
Reading Angharad Closs Stephens's The Persistence of Nationalism. From imagined communities to urban encounters
Flows from beyond the Pyrenees. The Rhône River and Catalonia's search for water independence
Trends and triggers redux
Claiming geothermal water
Energopower, statecraft and political legitimacy
"Water as "Time-Substance
Scales of Exception
Oriental despotism
Water, Culture, and Power
Questioning Collapse
Rethinking Expertise
What Is Water?
Governing the Tap
Beyond panaceas in water institutions
Water scarcity
Positive Interactions Promote Public Cooperation
The structure of scientific revolutions
Oriental Despotism
Spaces of Democracy
Democracy Defended
Space in Contentious Politics
The reinvention of politics
Rationality and the Ideology of Disconnection
The Middle East Water Question
The Great Lakes Water Wars
Managing and Transforming Water Conflicts
Avoiding Politics
Working Together
Conflict and cooperation along international waterways
The Politics of Climate Change
The Structure of Scientific Revolutions
Philosophy and Real Politics
The Enigma of Capital
Indigenous Approaches to Water Conflict Negotiations and Implications for International Waters
International relations theory and water do mix
Dressing up domination as ‘cooperation’
Conspiracy Nation
The Modern Prince and Other Writings
When the Rivers Run Dry
The Sage Handbook of Political Geography
Contested H2O
River-basin planning and management
Profligacy and scarcity
How to speak for aquifers and people at the same time
Water and power networks and urban fragmentation in Los Angeles
Theorising democracy geographically
Innovative Approaches to Territorial Disputes
Claiming Space, Claiming Water
Spaces of Water Governance
Custom and Contradiction
Transparency
The Fate of Knowledge
The Public Sphere in the Field of Power
Acting in an uncertain world
Globalization and the changing logic of collective action
The benefit-sharing principle
Hidden theories, troubled waters
Mapping knowledge controversies
Reconfiguring environmental governance
The Tragedy of the Commons
Negotiating hydro-scales, forging states
The Power of Water
Groundwater governmentality
Water and Power
Who Wants To Deliberate-And Why
Does Liberal Democracy Presuppose a Cultural Nation? Four Arguments
A Behavioral Approach to the Rational Choice Theory of Collective Action
Stratagems and Spoils
Political Theology, Anthropomorphism, and Person-hood of the State
Critiquing Liberal Cosmopolitanism? The Limits of the Biopolitical Approach
| Unique citing works | 34 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 2,43 |
| Citation span | 2012 - 2026 (15) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 32 |