Water, Sovereignty and Borders in Asia and Oceania

by Ghosh; Devleena

• ISBN13: 9780415437264
• ISBN10: 0415437261
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2009-01-13
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

From oceans and rivers to lagoons, billabongs and estuaries, this volume draws on water's many formations in debating human relationships as a major source of life and a major factor in contemporary politics.

Table of Contents

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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