Contested Waters: Sub-national Scale Water and Conflict in Pakistan

by Daanish Mustafa

Overview

Contested Waters provides an in-depth analysis of trans-boundary water conflict involving the Indus Basin in Pakistan. The book focuses on both national scale and local scale case studies to illustrate how these water conflicts are both discursively and materially driven by human institutions and politics. Through case studies of controversy over large dams, local flooding and irrigation methods, Daanish Mustafa highlights the various deeply political and institutional factors driving water conflict - specifically the disparity between national scale strategies of water politics and local scale water politics - and calls for engagement with water conflict in political terms.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780755635238
Publisher:	Bloomsbury Academic
Publication date:	08/25/2022
Pages:	128
Product dimensions:	6.14(w) x 9.21(h) x 0.27(d)

About the Author

Daanish Mustafa is Professor of Critical Geography at King's College London, UK.

Table of Contents

Chapter 1: Introduction: Contested Waters in Hydro-Hazardscapes
Chapter 2: Nationalist Hazardscapes: The Case of Inter-Provincial Water Conflict
Chapter 3: Local Scale Water Conflict over Surface and Groundwater in Rural Pakistan
Chapter 4: Contested Hazards in Local Hazardscapes: From Floods to Pollution
Chapter 5: Conflict Over Domestic Water Supply: The Case of Karachi
Chapter 6: Conclusion: Towards Normalizing Uncertainty
References
Index

Editorial Reviews

"Water is about power. This book demonstrates powerfully how water, power, contestations and cooperation operate across scales in Pakistan. Mustafa covers a wide range of issues, from urban water conflicts to sub-national hydro-hegemony, in how developmental pans and political economies of water coproduce various forms of hazardscapes, and how different groups of peoples are impacted by water scarcity. This book should be of great interest to scholars of water as well as those of Pakistan." --Dr. Farhana Sultana, Associate Professor of Geography & Research Director (Environment), Program for the Advancement of Research on Conflict and Collaboration (PARCC), Maxwell School of Citizenship & Public Affairs, Syracuse University, USA

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