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Wasser | Macht | Raum
Das vorliegende Buch zeigt am Beispiel der Stadt Antofagasta im Norden Chiles, wie entlang hydro-sozialer Versorgungsinfrastrukturen urbane Lebensräume und Identitäten (re-)konfiguriert werden. Auf Basis von sieben Monaten sozialgeographischer Feldforschung beleuchtet das Buch die verschiedenen Dimensionen der täglichen Wasserbeschaffung und -nutzung in Antofagastas Campamentos (“informelle Siedlungen”). Konzeptionelle Zugänge aus der Urbanen Politischen Ökologie, der foucaultschen Gouvernementalitätsanalyse und der Citizenship-Forschung werden zu einem hydro-sozialen Analyseraster kombiniert. Mit diesem Raster wird der Lauf des Wassers entlang machtgeladener hydraulischer Infrastr...
Political Waters
Political Waters examines how recent reforms of decentralization, privatization, and commercialization are initiated and implemented with regard to water management in Khartoum. In so doing, it uses the prism of water to gain insights into Sudanese (water) politics, power strategies, and state-society relationships. Drawing on detailed, actor-oriented, and ethnographic analyses based on political ecology and on organization sociology, the main findings develop important aspects of rule and emphasize the relevance of studying local micropolitical contexts in order to understand macropolitical dynamics. This work obtained the DAVO (German Middle East Studies Association) Dissertation Award 2012. Dissertation. (Series: Forum Political Geography / Forum Politische Geographie - Vol. 7)
Charity Drops
The study investigates how the current Islamist regime in Sudan influences the Zakat Chamber to control the Zakat collection and distribution. It argues that these reforms are founded on the extension of fiqh sources introducing modern interpretations of Zakat and based on the prioritization between the Zakat categories according to their definition of 'the public interest'. Thus, the Zakat Chamber funds service projects such as water services for the poor. The study is the first in-depth empirical research on the politics of the Zakat Chamber in Sudan. It gives a novel understanding of internal dynamics of the state and civil society in Sudan.
More Than Sport: Soft Power and Potemkinism in the 2018 Men's Football World Cup in Russia
This book explores the 2018 Men's Football World Cup in Russia through a comparison of the host cities of Ekaterinburg and Volgograd - two major but peripheral cities little discussed outside of Russia. It unpacks the World Cup at multiple scales of analysis, from global political economic processes, Russian national state spatial strategies, uneven municipal developments, the creation and distribution of soft power narratives to the domestic audience, and varieties of adoption or refusal of those narratives among host city residents. In so doing, the book offers a light and revisable framework for understanding mega-events regardless of national context. Sven Daniel Wolfe is junior lecturer at the University of Lausanne. He studies mega-events, urban development, and the cultures of protest and resistance.
The Gift of Water
"Pierre Bourdieu conceptualizes the social as an economy. With an empirical example of free water transfers between 'water rich' and 'water poor' neighbours, this book demonstrates the relevance of moral considerations in habitualized everyday practice. Using Luc Boltanski's work on Justifications, the analysis introduces economic imperfection into Bourdieu's 'perfect' Economy of Symbolic Goods. By presenting a Poltiical Ecology of the neighbourly waterscape from the perspective of water consumers, this book is a scientific plea for a holistic analysis of water beyond the scale of policy making"--Publisher's description
The Attempt to Stay
The construction of the Merowe Dam along the Nile in northern Sudan flooded local villages and forced thousands of inhabitants to flee to higher ground. Despite the radical social and environmental transformations and an uncertain future, the Manasir have tried to continue their peasant way of life and resisted relocating to state-run resettlement schemes. Rather than focusing on migration and resettlement, the author follows the people’s attempts to preserve their homeland and have meaningful lives along the emerging reservoir. The book grapples with the fundamental question of how to re-establish life in a world that is falling apart.
States at Work
States at Work explores the mundane practices of state-making in Africa by focussing on the daily functioning of public services and the practices of civil servants.
University Governance in (Post-)Conflict Southern Sudan 2005–2011
Few studies have looked into the governance of universities in societies affected by armed conflicts, because they are either meant for practitioners or focused on the role of universities for peace and development. Akiiki Babyesiza offers an in-depth analysis of the relationship between state, higher education, and society in a multicultural and multi-religious post-conflict setting and uses empirical data to question university governance concepts. She explores the role that civil wars played in university development and governance in Sudan with a particular focus on Southern Sudan after the peace agreement of 2005 and before its secession in 2011.
The Genocide-Ecocide Nexus
In a world gripped by an ever-worsening ecological crisis there are present and increasing genocidal pressures on many culturally distinct social groups, such as indigenous peoples. This is where the genocide-ecocide nexus presents itself. The destruction of ecosystems, ecocide, can be a method of genocide if, for example, environmental destruction results in conditions of life that fundamentally threaten a social group's cultural and/or physical existence. Given the looming threat of runaway climate change, the attendant rapid extinction of species, destruction of habitats, ecological collapse and the self-evident dependency of the human race on our bio-sphere, ecocide (both "natural" and "...
Foncier Périurbain, Citoyenneté et Formation de l'Etat au Niger
Cette ethnographie d’une capitale africaine peu connue examine les transformations urbaines rapides qui s’opèrent dans les périphéries de Niamey au Niger. L’urbanisation croissante met en exergue le dessous des conflits fonciers historiques et contemporains. Les anciennes plantations d’arbres, l’étalement urbain sur des terres coutumières, et les nouveaux lotissements qui versent dans un marché foncier en frénésie témoignent tous des liens intimes entre foncier, citoyenneté et autorité publique. A travers les profondes mutations qui s’accomplissent dans les modes d’accès à la terre et son appropriation en marge de la ville sont mobilisés différents registres de reconnaissance, d’autorité et de légitimité. Cet ouvrage se veut ainsi une contribution à l’étude des processus locaux de la formation de l’Etat en Afrique, lu à travers le prisme des enjeux politiques autour des espaces périurbains.
