Making small-dams work
Everyday politics around irrigation cooperatives in Turkey
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2631460 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Selin Le Visage (0000-0002-5765-9688, Université de Pau et des Pays de l'Adour, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2024 |
| Volume | 39 |
| Publication date | 2024-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | European journal of Turkish studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1773-0546 • E-ISSN: 1773-0546 |
| Publisher | OpenEdition (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.4000/ejts.7099 |
| OpenAlex | W3210941120 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 58 |
Much research on environmental issues in Turkey has focused on conflictual state-led projects, for example on the large-scale GAP irrigation schemes or hydroelectric plants. This article shows that, in a complementary way, it is also necessary to study less contested projects, since power struggles for control over natural resources tend to occur in the implementation and everyday management of these as well. It analyses the everyday dynamics of negotiations and the arrangements found locally during the implementation of the national programme '1000 gölet in 1000 days'. Gölet, hillside reservoirs built for irrigation, enabled the government to demonstrate its involvement at a very local level in numerous villages in Turkey. However, the complex implementation of these numerous and relatively small projects compelled agents of the hydraulic administration to negotiate the transfer of their management to local actors. Taking irrigation cooperatives in the Izmir region as a starting point, this article highlights how the shaping of social arrangements for managing the new water resource depends both on local and supralocal power relations. It challenges the idea of a monolithic state disconnected from homogenous communities of irrigators, and reveals the flexibility of these relations. It focuses on the way actors - not only irrigators but also state officials at the local level - adapt norms, bend rules and find arrangements in order to shape new water institutions and infrastructure
Business · Irrigation · Political science · Politics · Water resource management · Agriculture, Land Use, Rural Development · Engineering · Environmental Science · Law · Water Governance and Infrastructure · Water-Energy-Food Nexus Studies
The State in Political Ecology
The Everyday Life of the State
Dialectics of Reform and Repression
La question des barrages et du GAP dans le Sud-Est anatolien
Pour une géographie du pouvoir
State in Society
The rise and decline of an anti-dam campaign
Epilogue
Présidents avant-gardes
Le pouvoir des élus vs le pouvoir des nommés, ou la recentralisation des pouvoirs locaux
State as Socionatural Effect
Water Rich, Resource Poor
The Theory of Street-Level Bureaucracy
A project of destruction, peace, or techno-science? Untangling the relationship between the Southeastern Anatolia Project (GAP) and the Kurdish question in Turkey
Erdoğan’s three-pillared neoliberalism
Contested hydrosocial territories and disputed water governance
Development through design
Tool-power
Droit à la ville et contestation de l’ordre moral urbain en Turquie
Uses and Abuses of “State and Civil Society” in Contemporary Turkey
Political ecology II
Political ecologies of the state
Between Longing and Despair
The socioenvironmental state
The political ecology of uncertainty
Scientific Empire and Imperial Science
Colonial and Contemporary Ideologies of 'Community Management
Résistances spatiales et identitaires. La construction d'un barrage dans une ville arabo-kurde
Le Topkapı Kültür Parkı
Re-Considering State-Society Dynamics in Turkey's Kurdish Southeast
States at the Limit
Coping with Bureaucracy
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |