Water, Power and Politics in the Middle East: The Other Israeli-Palestinian Conflict

by Jan Selby

Overview

Jan Selby draws on numerous sources, from testimonies of local water engineers and administrators, to narrative accounts of citizens, and eyewitness accounts of people's coping strategies to examine the water crisis in the Middle East. He argues that the water crisis needs to be approached from a range of scales and perspectives -from the long historical patterns of state formation and development within which water crises emerge, to the practices through which people adapt to water shortages in the course of their everyday interaction-and frames the problems in relation to broader patterns of politics, political economy, state formation and development.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781860649349
Publisher:	Bloomsbury Academic
Publication date:	10/24/2003
Series:	Library of Modern Middle East Studies , #25
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	288
Product dimensions:	6.14(w) x 9.21(h) x 0.69(d)

About the Author

Jan Selby is with the Department of Politics, University of Aberystwyth, UK.

Table of Contents

Part 1: Theoretical and Historical Contexts
• Explaining Water Crises: Ecological, Technical and Political Discourses.
• Explaining Water Conflict in the Jordan Basin--The West Bank under Occupation
• Part II: The Oslo Period
• Dressing up Domination as Cooperation
• The Case of the Eastern Aquifer
• Explaining Oslo
• Administering Water Under Oslo
• The Arts of Getting By
• Conclusions