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List of contents
Chapter 1: Introduction: Contested Waters in Hydro-Hazardscapes
Chapter 2: Nationalist Hazardscapes: The Case of Inter-Provincial Water Conflict
Chapter 3: Local Scale Water Conflict over Surface and Groundwater in Rural Pakistan
Chapter 4: Contested Hazards in Local Hazardscapes: From Floods to Pollution
Chapter 5: Conflict Over Domestic Water Supply: The Case of Karachi
Chapter 6: Conclusion: Towards Normalizing Uncertainty
References
Index
About the author
Daanish Mustafa is Professor of Critical Geography at King's College London, UK.
Summary
Contested Waters provides an in-depth analysis of trans-boundary water conflict involving the Indus Basin in Pakistan. The book focuses on both national scale and local scale case studies to illustrate how these water conflicts are both discursively and materially driven by human institutions and politics. Through case studies of controversy over large dams, local flooding and irrigation methods, Daanish Mustafa highlights the various deeply political and institutional factors driving water conflict – specifically the disparity between national scale strategies of water politics and local scale water politics – and calls for engagement with water conflict in political terms.
Foreword
An examination of water-driven conflict in the Indus Basin.
Additional text
Water is about power. This book demonstrates powerfully how water, power, contestations and cooperation operate across scales in Pakistan. Mustafa covers a wide range of issues, from urban water conflicts to sub-national hydro-hegemony, in how developmental pans and political economies of water coproduce various forms of hazardscapes, and how different groups of peoples are impacted by water scarcity. This book should be of great interest to scholars of water as well as those of Pakistan.
