Cultivating the Nile
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Cultivating the Nile

The Everyday Politics of Water in Egypt

  1. English
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  3. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

Cultivating the Nile

The Everyday Politics of Water in Egypt

About this book

The waters of the Nile are fundamental to life in Egypt. In this compelling ethnography, Jessica Barnes explores the everyday politics of water: a politics anchored in the mundane yet vital acts of blocking, releasing, channeling, and diverting water. She examines the quotidian practices of farmers, government engineers, and international donors as they interact with the waters of the Nile flowing into and through Egypt. Situating these local practices in relation to broader processes that affect Nile waters, Barnes moves back and forth from farmer to government ministry, from irrigation canal to international water conference. By showing how the waters of the Nile are constantly made and remade as a resource by people in and outside Egypt, she demonstrates the range of political dynamics, social relations, and technological interventions that must be incorporated into understandings of water and its management.

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Table of contents

  1. Contents
  2. Note on Transliteration, Units, and Abbreviations
  3. Preface
  4. Acknowledgments
  5. Chapter 1. The End of a River
  6. Chapter 2. The Nile’s Nadir: The Production of Scarcity
  7. Chapter 3. Fluid Governance: Water User Associations and Practices of Participation
  8. Chapter 4. Irrigating the Desert, Deserting the Irrigated: Land Reclamation at the Margins
  9. Chapter 5. Flows of Drainage: The Politics of Excess
  10. Chapter 6. Making Egypt’s Water
  11. Notes
  12. References
  13. Index