Towards water regionalism? Examining the linkages between water, infrastructures, and regionalism in Turkey

Sayan, Ramazan Caner, Bilgen, Arda ORCID: 0000-0002-1670-7591 and Kibaroğlu, Ayşegül (2024) Towards water regionalism? Examining the linkages between water, infrastructures, and regionalism in Turkey. International Journal of Water Resources Development. ISSN 0790-0627

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Abstract

Moving beyond the purely material understanding of infrastructures, new perspectives in infrastructural regionalism assert that infrastructures and regions simultaneously shape each other. Drawing on this reciprocal relationship, we introduce the concept of ‘water regionalism’ to examine how regional factors, dynamics, and complexities shape water infrastructures, and how water infrastructures concurrently shape regions. Through qualitative research methodologies, we empirically demonstrate how this concept operates in practice by examining the history of regional planning and hydraulic infrastructure development in Turkey, particularly the process of how the South-eastern Anatolia Project (GAP) and the GAP region have shaped each other since the 1970s.

Item Type:	Article
Additional Information:	© 2024 The Author(s)
Divisions:	Middle East Centre
Subjects:	H Social Sciences > HC Economic History and Conditions T Technology > TC Hydraulic engineering. Ocean engineering
Date Deposited:	10 Dec 2024 09:24
Last Modified:	16 Dec 2024 10:18
URI:	http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/id/eprint/126296

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