Fluid modernity : the politics of water in the Middle East / Gilberto Conde.

By: Conde, Gilberto [author.]Material type: TextTextLanguage: English Series: Routledge FocusPublisher: London ; New York, New York : Routledge, 2023Copyright date: ©2023Edition: First published 2023Description: xviii, 119 pages : illustrations, maps ; 21 xmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9781032412252 (hardback)Subject(s): Water-supply -- Political aspects -- Middle East | Water-supply -- Political aspects | Water resources development -- Political aspectsLOC classification: HD1698.M53 C663 2023
Contents:
Cover -- Half Title -- Series Information -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Table of Contents -- Maps -- Series Editor's Statement -- Preface -- Glossary of Concepts -- Introduction -- 1 On Fluid Modernity -- 1.1 A Fluid Mechanism -- 1.2 Fluid Modernity and Capitalism -- 1.3 The Middle East Hydropolitics Debate -- 1.4 Conclusions -- Notes -- 2 Making Fluid Modernity in the Middle East -- 2.1 Water and the Colonisation of Palestine -- 2.2 The Tigris-Euphrates and European Hegemony -- 2.3 Cold War, the Nile and the Jordan River -- 2.4 Cold War, the Asi and the Euphrates -- 2.5 Aswan and the War of 1956 -- 2.6 Conclusions -- Notes -- 3 Fluid Modernity in Coercive Mode -- 3.1 The Middle East Political Context -- 3.2 Flexing the Muscle Over the Jordan River -- 3.3 The Jordan-Yarmuk Water Apparatus -- 3.4 Frictions Along the Tigris-Euphrates: 1960-1976 -- 3.5 GAP in the Governmental Reason -- 3.6 In the Absence of Governmentality: the 1980s -- 3.7 Conclusions -- Notes -- 4 Fluid Modernity in Conditional Mode -- 4.1 The Context From 1991 Onwards -- 4.2 Water and Arab-Israeli Negotiations -- 4.2.1 The Israeli Water Apparatus On the Palestinians -- 4.2.2 Water and Jordanian-Israeli Peace -- 4.2.3 Water in Syrian-Israeli Negotiations -- 4.2.4 Water in the Lebanese-Israeli File -- 4.3 A Tigris-Euphrates Water Apparatus -- 4.3.1 The Tigris-Euphrates Apparatus in the 1990s -- 4.3.2 A New Governmental Reason in the Making -- 4.3.3 The Governmental Reason Breakdown -- 4.4 Conclusions -- Notes -- Epilogue -- Bibliography -- Index.
Subject: Fluid Modernity offers an innovative, encompassing, historical grasp of the politics of water in the Middle East in the context of modern capitalism and world politics. Drawing upon conceptions of power by Foucault and Agamben, it examines how water, through its modern capitalist production, is transformed into a water apparatus that binds people to power. In trans-boundary watercourses, states get involved in the formation of international governmentalities. The book revisits the history of fluid modernity in the Middle East from late Ottoman times to the present. It focuses on water conflict and cooperation between states (Israel and Arab states and Turkey, Syria and Iraq), on state policies towards subaltern subjects (Israel and Turkey in relation to Palestinians and Kurds, respectively) and on the water politics of rebellious movements. After a conceptual chapter discussing fluid modernity, the book traces water politics in the region in a diachronic perspective. It explores how water diplomacy, infrastructure loans, reservoir construction, discourses of sovereignty and conflict have weighed on the development of governance and governmentality in the region. Fluid Modernity will be of great interest to postgraduates, researchers, academics and intellectuals interested in Middle East Studies, Hydropolitics, Water and Society, Geopolitics, Political Theory, Resistance as well as to NGOs dealing with water. https://www.routledge.com/Fluid-Modernity-The-Politics-of-Water-in-the-Middle-East/Conde/p/book/9781032412252
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 117-131) and index (pages 113-119).

Cover -- Half Title -- Series Information -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Table of Contents -- Maps -- Series Editor's Statement -- Preface -- Glossary of Concepts -- Introduction -- 1 On Fluid Modernity -- 1.1 A Fluid Mechanism -- 1.2 Fluid Modernity and Capitalism -- 1.3 The Middle East Hydropolitics Debate -- 1.4 Conclusions -- Notes -- 2 Making Fluid Modernity in the Middle East -- 2.1 Water and the Colonisation of Palestine -- 2.2 The Tigris-Euphrates and European Hegemony -- 2.3 Cold War, the Nile and the Jordan River -- 2.4 Cold War, the Asi and the Euphrates -- 2.5 Aswan and the War of 1956 -- 2.6 Conclusions -- Notes -- 3 Fluid Modernity in Coercive Mode -- 3.1 The Middle East Political Context -- 3.2 Flexing the Muscle Over the Jordan River -- 3.3 The Jordan-Yarmuk Water Apparatus -- 3.4 Frictions Along the Tigris-Euphrates: 1960-1976 -- 3.5 GAP in the Governmental Reason -- 3.6 In the Absence of Governmentality: the 1980s -- 3.7 Conclusions -- Notes -- 4 Fluid Modernity in Conditional Mode -- 4.1 The Context From 1991 Onwards -- 4.2 Water and Arab-Israeli Negotiations -- 4.2.1 The Israeli Water Apparatus On the Palestinians -- 4.2.2 Water and Jordanian-Israeli Peace -- 4.2.3 Water in Syrian-Israeli Negotiations -- 4.2.4 Water in the Lebanese-Israeli File -- 4.3 A Tigris-Euphrates Water Apparatus -- 4.3.1 The Tigris-Euphrates Apparatus in the 1990s -- 4.3.2 A New Governmental Reason in the Making -- 4.3.3 The Governmental Reason Breakdown -- 4.4 Conclusions -- Notes -- Epilogue -- Bibliography -- Index.

Fluid Modernity offers an innovative, encompassing, historical grasp of the politics of water in the Middle East in the context of modern capitalism and world politics. Drawing upon conceptions of power by Foucault and Agamben, it examines how water, through its modern capitalist production, is transformed into a water apparatus that binds people to power. In trans-boundary watercourses, states get involved in the formation of international governmentalities.

The book revisits the history of fluid modernity in the Middle East from late Ottoman times to the present. It focuses on water conflict and cooperation between states (Israel and Arab states and Turkey, Syria and Iraq), on state policies towards subaltern subjects (Israel and Turkey in relation to Palestinians and Kurds, respectively) and on the water politics of rebellious movements. After a conceptual chapter discussing fluid modernity, the book traces water politics in the region in a diachronic perspective. It explores how water diplomacy, infrastructure loans, reservoir construction, discourses of sovereignty and conflict have weighed on the development of governance and governmentality in the region.

Fluid Modernity will be of great interest to postgraduates, researchers, academics and intellectuals interested in Middle East Studies, Hydropolitics, Water and Society, Geopolitics, Political Theory, Resistance as well as to NGOs dealing with water.

https://www.routledge.com/Fluid-Modernity-The-Politics-of-Water-in-the-Middle-East/Conde/p/book/9781032412252