Water, civilisation and power in Sudan: the political economy of military-Islamist state building
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Beteilige Person: Verhoeven, Harry 1985- (VerfasserIn)
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:Englisch
Veröffentlicht: Cambridge Cambridge Univ. Press 2015
Ausgabe:1. publ.
Schriftenreihe:African studies 131
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Links:https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781107447769
https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781107447769
https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781107447769
https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781107447769
Beschreibung:Includes bibliographical references (pages 283-306) and index
Prologue: the inauguration of the Merowe Dam -- State-building, the environment and the civilisation mission -- Hydraulic civilisation and land of famine: the crafting of the Sudanese state and its sources of power -- Mashru al-Hadhari: the rise of Sudan's Al-Ingaz regime and its civilisation project -- The hydro-political economy of Al-Ingaz: economic salvation through "dams as development" -- The geopolitics of the Nile: Khartoum's dam programme and agricultural revival in the global political economy -- Military-Islamist state-building and its contradictions: mirages in the desert, South Sudan's secession and the new hydropolitics of the Nile -- Conclusion: water, civilisation and power -- Appendix: elite interviews and in-depth testimonies
Umfang:1 Online-Ressource (1 online resource (xvi, 314 pages)) illustrations
ISBN:9781107447769
DOI:10.1017/CBO9781107447769