Water, civilization, and power in Sudan : the political economy of military-Islamist state-building
Harry Verhoeven
Bok · 2015
| Utgitt | New York : Cambridge University Press , 2015
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| Omfang | 338 p.
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| Opplysninger | Cover; Half-title Page; Series Page; Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; Figures, Tables and Pictures; Map; Acknowledgements; Prologue The Inauguration of the Merowe Dam ; The Argument; Situating the Book; Chapter 1 State Building, the Environment and the Civilisation Mission ; Imagining the Environment: Paradigms of Development, Cooperation and Conflict; Neither Cornucopia nor Dystopia: Political ecology, the State and Violence; Chapter 2 Hydraulic Civilisation and Land of Famine: The Crafting of the Sudanese State and Its Sources of Power Egypt under the Pharaohs: A Very Different Logic of Water, Civilisation and PowerThe Nile as a Product of Modernity: Muhammad Ali and the Reinvention of the Water-Agriculture Nexus; Colonising the Nile: Slavery, Hydropolitics and State Building in Sudan; "Sudan Must Feed the World": The Fata Morgana of Becoming the Regional Breadbasket; Conclusion; Chapter 3 Mashru Al-Hadhari: The Rise of Sudan's Al-Ingaz Regime and Its Civilisation Project ; The Rise of the Islamists: Ideas, Power and Money; Salvation for Sudan: the Revolution and Its Vision Mashru Al-Hadhari: Building a New State, a New Economy and a New SocietyConclusion; Chapter 4 The Hydro-Political Economy of Al-Ingaz: Economic Salvation Through "Dams are Development" ; The Salvation Overreaches: Al-Ingaz and Its Contradictions in the Late 1990s; The Hydro-Agricultural Mission: Al-Ingaz Reinvents Itself; The Hamdi Triangle and Islamist Hegemony: The Grand Strategy behind the Hydro-Agricultural Mission; Conclusion; Chapter 5 The Geopolitics of the Nile: Khartoum's Dam Programme and Agricultural Revival in the Global Political Economy The Shadow of the Pharaohs: Egypt and the Hydropolitical Status QuoThe "New" Global Political Economy of the Nile: The Gulf Arabs; "A Sino-Sudanese Model of Development": China and the Economic Salvation Agenda; How Al-Ingaz Changed the Nile Basin: Sudan and the Erosion of the Hydropolitical Status Quo; Conclusion; Chapter 6 Military-Islamist State Building and Its Contradictions: Mirages in the Desert, South Sudan's Secession and the New Hydropolitics of the Nile ; The Achilles' Heel of Al-Ingaz: The Failure of the Hydro-Agricultural Mission Water, Civilisation and Power in the Peripheries: Novelty, not ChangeThe Nile's New Hydropolitics; Conclusion; Conclusion Water, Civilisation and Power; Water and Power: State Building's Violent Contradictions and Sudan's Hydropolitical Economy; Water and Civilisation: State Building in Sudan and Discursive Entrapment; Dams as "Temples of Modernity" and "Veins of the Nation"; Islamism, Illiberal State Building and the Geopolitics of Water: Sudan's Salvation Experiment as a Model?; Appendix Elite Interviews and In-Depth Testimonies; Bibliography; Index
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| Emner | Barrages
Dams Development Economic development Vis mer... Environment
Environmental conditions Government policy Islam Islamism Islamists Nile Political aspects Political powers Politics Rivers Sudan Water management Water resources Water supply Diplomacygroup Energygroup Peacegroup Securitygroup TfP2021 |
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| ISBN | 1-107-44776-3
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