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Title
A Matter of Relationships: Actor-Networks of Colonial Rule in the Gezira Irrigation System, Sudan |
Date
2016 |
Author(s)
Ertsen, M.W. (author) |
Abstract
In the first half of the 20th century, colonial rulers, a British firm and Sudanese farmers changed the Gezira Plain in Sudan into a large-scale irrigated cotton scheme. Gezira continues to be in use up to date. Its story shows how the abstract concept 'development' is shaped through the agency of humans and non-humans alike in government offices and muddy fields. Gezira provides a well-suited starting point for moving into the networks of development without any pre-suggested division in terms of levels, contexts or relations. Hierarchies, arenas and institutions do exist. Such power relations are associations between humans and non-humans: relatively stable relations are typically produced when non-human agency is involved, for example through books, roads, and money. The Gezira case shows the potential of actor-network theory in building and understanding of conceptual and empirical links between water, infrastructure and political rule. - Water Resources |
Subject(s)
Actor-network theory; material agency; power; infrastructure; social relations; Gezira scheme; Sudan |
Language
en |
Relation
http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:a75752ce-590e-4c6d-a8f5-2b596571e8f0; Water Alternatives--1965-0175--7080d1d5-86ab-4d77-b790-1ee2fd366a7c |
Type of publication
journal article |
Rights
© 2016 M.W. Ertsen |
Identifier
uuid:a75752ce-590e-4c6d-a8f5-2b596571e8f0 |
Repository
Delft - Technische Universiteit Delft
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