Interdisciplinary Workshop on Water, Technology and the Nation-State The University of Manchester, Geography Arthur Lewis Building 27 and 28 October 2016 Convened by Filippo Menga

Preliminary programme Thursday, 27 October 2016 9 – 9.40

Arrival and Registration

9.40-10

Opening remarks Professor Jamie Woodward, Head of Geography, University of Manchester Dr Filippo Menga, Marie Sklodowska-Curie Research Fellow, University of Manchester

10-11

Keynote address by Professor Erik Swyngedouw, University of Manchester, “Not a Drop of Water...: State, Modernity and the Production of Nature in Spain, 19982010”

11-11.30

Coffee break

11.30-13

Session 1: Water and Transnational Relations Chair: Michael Mason, London School of Economics and Political Science

Presentations Jeremy Allouche, Institute of Development Studies, Brighton, UK Nationalism, Beliefs and Power in Transboundary Water Relations Filippo Menga, University of Manchester, UK The Modern Polis in Water Politics Hussam Hussein and Muna Dajani, University of East Anglia and London School of Economics and Political Science, UK Shaping Waterscapes: Hydraulic Mission and Hydro-political Dynamics in the Jordan River Basin Hannah Boast, University of York, UK Drinking the Sea, Making the Desert Bloom: Literature and Hydro-Nationalism in Israel/Palestine 13-14

Lunch

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14-15:45

Session 2: Space, Water and Social Power Chair: Mark Usher, University of Manchester

Presentations Daanish Mustafa, King’s College London, UK Privatization by Other Means: Social Power, Tankers and Techno-assemblages of Water Supply in Amman, Jordan Joe Williams, University of Manchester, UK Correcting the Colorado: Removing salt and politics from water through binational desalination Stathis Arapostathis, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece Water Techno-Politics as National Politics: Resource Space, Natural Commons and the Social Construction of a River in 20th Century Greece Majed Akhter, Indiana University, USA Desiring the Data State: Technocracy, Nationalism, and Water in the Capitalist Periphery David J.H. Blake, Independent Researcher Irrigational Illusions, Delusions and Idealised Constructions of Water, Agriculture and Society in Southeast Asia: the Case of Thailand 15:45-16:15

Coffee break

16:15-18

Session 3: Dams as drivers of development Chair: Jamie Linton, University of Limoges

Presentations Nancy Reynolds, Washington University in St. Louis, USA Egypt’s Nile: Postcolonial Reclamation of River and Nation in the Final Flood of 1964 Christine Gilmore, University of Leeds, UK National Development, Nubian Disaster? The Contested Legacy of the Aswan High Dam in Contemporary Nubian Fiction Roman Foy, Independent Researcher Nation-State Building and Arid Margin Integration: Forced-march Modernization in the Euphrates Project in Syria (1966-1983) Mllion Gebreyes, University of Bonn, Germany Dam-Nation-State Building: The case of the Great Ethiopian Renaissance Dam Woldegebrael Edegilign Hailu, University Paris-Ouest-Nanterre-La-Défense, France Large Dams and State Building in Ethiopia: A View from Gibe III Hydropower Development Project 19

Social Dinner (location TBA)

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Friday, 28 October 2016 9:15-11

Session 4: Dams and State-building Chair: Nancy Reynolds, Washington University in St. Louis

Presentations Flora Roberts, University of Tübingen, Germany The ‘Tajik Sea’: Fraternal Cooperation, Rivalry, and the Making of a Dam Jamie Linton and Etienne Delay, University of Limoges, France Death by Certainty: The Vinca Dam, the French State, and the Withering of Canal Associations in the Têt Basin of the Eastern French Pyrenees Collin Mabiza, University of Zimbabwe, Zimbabwe A Nation Dammed: Perspectives on the Role of Dam Construction and State Building in Zimbabwe between 1900 and 2016 Niranjana Ramesh, University College London, UK Desalination as infrastructural space: creating expertise through water governance Wondwosen Michago Seide, Lund University, Sweden Between Collective Memory and Nationalism:Remembering Aswan High Dam and Imagining Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam 11-11:30

Coffee break

11:30-13

Session 5: Contested Waters and Nations Chair: Joe Williams, University of Manchester

Presentations Santiago Gorostiza, Hug March and David Saurí, University of Coimbra, Portugal Flows from Beyond the Pyrenees. Rhône River and Catalonia’s Own National Search for Water Independence from Spain Veronica Ibarra and Alejandra Pena, National Autonomous University of Mexico and Mexican Institute of Water Technology, Mexico Large Hydraulic Infrastructure in Post-Revolutionary Mexico (1940-1982) Michael Mason and Muna Dajani, London School of Economics and Political Science, UK Water Infrastructure as Resistance in the Occupied Golan Heights Panayiota Pyla and Petros Phokaides, University of Cyprus, Cyprus, and National Technical University of Athens, Greece ‘The most dam-dense country in Europe’: Ethnic Conflict and Supra-national claims in Cyprus 13-14

Lunch

14-15:30

Session 6: State formation, nation-building and water 3

Chair: Majed Akhter, Indiana University Presentations Johanna Koehler, University of Oxford, UK Do Close Elections Benefit the Poor? Water Policy Choices with Decentralised Politics in Kenya Viktoria Akchurina, University of Trento, Italy Follow the Water: Resources, Societal Interdependence, and the Incomplete State Andrea Zinzani, Leibniz Center for Tropical Marine Ecology, Germany Water Development Policies Reconfiguration and State Consolidation Processes in Central Asia: Evidence from Uzbekistan Emanuele Fantini, Hermen Smit, and Margreet Zwarteveen, UNESCO-IHE Institute for Water Education, The Netherlands Water Management and State Formation in Ethiopia: Old Frontiers, New Centres and Their Margins in a Large Scale Investment on Irrigation in the Tana Beles Valley 15:30-16

Coffee break

16-17:30

Session 7: Water Nations Chair: Jeremy Allouche, Institute of Development Studies, Brighton

Presentations Ahmet Conker, Yildiz Technical University, Turkey Understanding Turkish Water Nationalism and its Role in Hydraulic Development of Turkey Mark Usher, University of Manchester, UK Desali-nation: Restructuring the Hydraulic State through Reverse Osmosis Technology in Singapore Austin Lord, Cornell University, USA Securing/Securitizing the Hydropower Nation: Hopeful Infrastructures & Energy Security in Post-Earthquake Nepal Alessandro Uras, University of Cagliari, Italy A new province in the making. The South China Sea and the built of a national maritime culture 17:30-18

Concluding remarks and discussion on future publications

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