Water, Sovereignty and Borders in Asia and Oceania

By: Devleena Ghosh (Editor), Heather Goodall (Editor), Stephanie Hemelryk Donald (Editor)

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Hardcover | 5 December 2008 | Edition Number 1

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This book restores water, both fresh and salt, to its central position in human endeavour, ecology and environment. Water access and the environmental and social problems of development are major issues of concern in this century. Drawing on water's many formations in debating human relationship with a major source of life and a major factor in contemporary politics, this book covers oceans and rivers to lagoons, billabongs and estuaries in Asia, Oceania and the West Pacific. In an interdisciplinary and cross-disciplinary analysis of the water problem, the contributors address the physical descriptors of water and water flow, and they interrogate the politicised administrations of water in closely corresponding regions.

Water, Sovereignty and Borders in Asia and Oceania identifies new discursive possibilities for thinking about water in theory and in practice. It presents those discourses that seem most useful in addressing the multiple crises the region is facing and thus should be of interest to scholars of Asian Studies, Geography, Environmental and Cultural Studies.

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List of figures
Fresh and salt	p. 1
The forms of water: in the land and in the soul	p. 14
Variable rights and diminishing control: the evolution of indigenous maritime sovereignty in Oceania	p. 20
Ocean, empire and nation: Japanese fisheries politics	p. 38
Water futures and their influence on sovereignty in the Marshall Islands	p. 50
'The Fisherman's Lot': popular responses to the Indian Ocean in economic and ecological crisis	p. 72
Boundaries, scale and power in South Asia	p. 87
Intellectual critiques, people's resistance and inter-riparian contestations: constraints to the power of the state regarding flood control and water management in the Ganges-Brahmaputra-Meghna Delta of Bangladesh	p. 104
Issues of scale in governing water as a common good: the Mekong River Basin	p. 125
Managing the Yellow River: questions of borders, boundaries and access	p. 134
Watered down? Legal constructs, tradable entitlements and the regulation of water	p. 147
Water - fluid perceptions	p. 169
For whom the Fitzroy River Hows: a fluctuating analysis of social and environmental sustainability and incremental sovereignty	p. 174
Salt Pan Creek: rivers as border zones within the colonial city	p. 189
Index	p. 210
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