Negotiating hydro-scales,forging states: Comparison of the upper Tigris/Euphrates and Jordan River basins |
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| Authors: | Leila M Harris Samer Alatout |
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| Institution: | 1. Institute for Resources, Environment, and Sustainability, and Center for Women''s and Gender Studies, University of British Columbia, 2220 Main Mall, 421 AERL, Vancouver, BC V6T 1Z4, Canada;2. Department of Community and Environmental Sociology, and Nelson Institute for Environmental Studies, University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA;1. UEA Water Security Research Centre, and School of International Development, University of East Anglia, Norwich NR2 1SF, UK;2. UEA Water Security Research Centre, and School of International Development, University of East Anglia, Norwich NR2 1SF, UK,;3. IRI THESys, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Germany;4. Department of International Development, London School of Economics and Political Science, UK;5. Richard Carter and Associates Ltd., Visiting Professor Cranfield University, Senior Research Associate ODI, UK;6. Arjen Hoekstra, Twente Water Centre, University of Twente, P.O. Box 217, 7500 AE Enschede, The Netherlands;7. Department of Geography, University College London, UK;8. Aalto University, Finland;9. Department of Geography, University of Sheffield, UK;10. CEDLA (Center for Latin American Research and Documentation) and Dept. Geography, Planning and International Development Studies, University of Amsterdam, and Dept. Environmental Sciences, Wageningen University, The Netherlands;11. School of Environment Enterprise and Development, University of Waterloo, Canada;12. WWF-UK and UEA Water Security Research Centre, UK;13. Udall Center for Studies in Public Policy, and School of Geography & Development, The University of Arizona, United States;14. Department of Geography, King’s College London, UK;15. CGIAR Program on Water, Land and Ecosystems, UK;1. Water Resource Management Group, Department of Environmental Sciences, Wageningen University, P.O. Box 47, 6700, AA, Wageningen, The Netherlands;2. CEDLA (Centre for Latin American Research and Documentation), University of Amsterdam, Roetersstraat 33, 1018, WB, Amsterdam, The Netherlands;3. Department of Geography, Planning and International Development, University of Amsterdam, P.O. Box 15629, 1001, NC, Amsterdam, The Netherlands;1. Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Madrid, Spain;2. Water Observatory, Botín Foundation, Madrid, Spain;3. Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR, USA;4. Centro de Estudios Avanzados en Zonas Áridas, La Serena, Chile;1. Dipartimento di Scienze Economiche, Università di Bologna, via Angherà, 22, 47900 Rimini, Italy;2. Università di Bologna, Italy;1. Water Security Research Centre and Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research, School of International Development, University of East Anglia (UEA), Norwich Research Park, NR4 7TJ, Norwich, UK;2. Issam Fares Institute for Public Policy and International Affairs, American University of Beirut (AUB), P.O.Box 11-0236, Riad El-Solh, Beirut, 1107 2020, Lebanon |
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| Abstract: | In this comparative study of two water basins in the Middle East, we examine the hydro-political construction of scale as central to state and nation building, and their territorial consolidation. We argue that scalar negotiations and constructions of freshwater became central to the very consolidation of both Turkey and Israel. The examples we offer also illustrate the usefulness of a performative approach to scale, benefiting from but moving beyond a politics of scale approach. The comparative focus on hydro-scalar politics and performativities in relation to state and nation building offered a) lends to an enriched understanding of water politics in these two contested river basins, b) enables fuller understanding of how water becomes central to the processes by which nations, states, and territories are consolidated in this region, and c) contributes to recent debates in political geography by demonstrating the value of scalar and performative approaches. Underscoring these linkages, the analysis differs from many works on water in the Middle East, contributes to studies of state and nation building as contested processes, and avoids the assumption of state or national scales as ontological pre-givens. |
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