TY - BOOK ID - 33645 TI - Contested Knowledges: Water Conflicts on Large Dams and Mega-Hydraulic Development AU - Shah, Esha AU - Boelens, Rutgerd AU - Bruins, Bert PY - 2019 SN - 9783038978107 / 9783038978114 DB - DOAB KW - hydroelectric development KW - hydropower KW - dam KW - indigenous peoples KW - first nations KW - Canada KW - Site C KW - British Columbia KW - environmental impacts KW - socio-economic impacts KW - hydropower KW - Mekong River Basin KW - political ecology KW - STS KW - public knowledge controversies KW - large dams KW - dam safety KW - hazard risk KW - environmental governance KW - uncertainty KW - knowledge politics KW - marginalization KW - political ecology KW - Himalayas KW - India KW - hydropower development KW - politicized collective identity KW - territory KW - collective action KW - agonistic unity KW - vernacular statecraft KW - Dzumsa KW - North Sikkim KW - hydrosocial territory KW - knowledge encounters KW - hydraulic utopia KW - modernity KW - commensuration KW - anti-dam movement KW - Málaga KW - Spain KW - hiding hand KW - A.O. Hirschman KW - irrigation KW - hydraulic projects KW - San Lorenzo irrigation project KW - Chixoy irrigation project KW - Peru KW - Guatemala KW - megadams KW - social construction of technology KW - politics of the governed KW - anti-dam resistance movements KW - technological design KW - contested knowledge KW - Ecuador KW - expectations KW - hydroelectric megaprojects KW - socio-technical imaginaries KW - Ecuador KW - energy policy KW - large dams KW - socioenvironmental impacts KW - compensation measures KW - knowledge systems KW - commensuration KW - negotiation KW - territorial control KW - Bolivia KW - Jacques Lacan KW - psychoanalysis KW - fantasy KW - mega-dam KW - Inga KW - DR Congo KW - hydropolitics KW - mega-hydraulic projects KW - modernist traditions KW - knowledge arenas KW - manufactured ignorance KW - depoliticization KW - UnGovernance KW - dehumanizing rationality KW - multi-actor multi-scalar alliances KW - co-creation KW - power KW - n/a UR - https://www.doabooks.org/doab?func=search&query=rid:33645 AB - Water acquisition, storage, allocation and distribution are intensely contested in our society, whether, for instance, such issues pertain to a conflict between upstream and downstream farmers located on a small stream or to a large dam located on the border of two nations. Water conflicts are mostly studied as disputes around access to water resources or the formulation of water laws and governance rules. However, explicitly or not, water conflicts nearly always also involve disputes among different philosophical views. The contributions to this edited volume have looked at the politics of contested knowledge as manifested in the conceptualisation, design, development, implementation and governance of large dams and mega-hydraulic infrastructure projects in various parts of the world. The special issue has explored the following core questions: Which philosophies and claims on mega-hydraulic projects are encountered, and how are they shaped, validated, negotiated and contested in concrete contexts? Whose knowledge counts and whose knowledge is downplayed in water development conflict situations, and how have different epistemic communities and cultural-political identities shaped practices of design, planning and construction of dams and mega-hydraulic projects? The contributions have also scrutinised how these epistemic communities interactively shape norms, rules, beliefs and values about water problems and solutions, including notions of justice, citizenship and progress that are subsequently to become embedded in material artefacts. ER -