The fence ‘didn’t work’: the mundane engagements and material practices of state-led development in China’s Danjiangkou Reservoir

Lamb, Vanessa; Rogers, Sarah; Wang, Mark

doi:10.1080/21622671.2022.2041475

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“…A conventional, security‐ or state‐centred lens poorly reflects these dynamics: space needs to be made for documenting the multiple and contested hydropolitics evident in Chinese infrastructural investment and Chinese actors' roles in transboundary river governance. Within China, despite strong recentralising tendencies in recent years, we still understand the state to be fragmented, rife with conflict between different agencies, and with clear limits in its ability to establish and maintain political authority through its water projects (see for instance Lamb et al., 2022): China as a regional hydro‐hegemon is simply not very useful as a conceptual frame.…”

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Beyond state politics in Asia's transboundary rivers: Revisiting two decades of critical hydropolitics

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For the past two decades, work across a range of fields, but particularly geography, has engaged ‘critical hydropolitics’ as a way to highlight not only the politics inherent in decisions about water, but also the foundational assumptions of more conventional hydropolitical analyses that tend to focus on conflicts and cooperation over water resources, with a heavy emphasis on ‘the state’ as the key actor and scale of analysis. In this article we review critical hydropolitical literature that focuses on transboundary rivers that descend from the eastern Tibetan Plateau, namely the Lancang‐Mekong, Yarlung Tsangpo‐Brahmaputra and Nu‐Salween river basins. We highlight five key and interrelated themes that have emerged in the literature to date ‐ the state, scale, infrastructure, knowledge and logics, and climate change ‐ and discuss how these provide useful tools for more fine‐grained analyses of power, control and contestation.

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Beyond state politics in Asia's transboundary rivers: Revisiting two decades of critical hydropolitics

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Convivial fences? Property, ‘right to wildlife’ and the need for redistributive justice in South African conservation

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Caring for the river‐border: Struggles and opportunities along the Salween River‐border

Lamb

2024

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Geographers have shown how borders rely on the enactment of state power and violence to reinforce territorial integrity and sovereign authority, or even perpetuate the destruction of nature. Moving away from an emphasis on violence, in this paper, I take an approach to borders and bordering that emphasises the opportunities of the border when it is also a river to understand borders as a resource and site of engagement with the state by a range of actors, including variants of care. To illustrate this, I draw on longstanding research along the Salween River, the 120 km stretch where the river forms the Thai–Myanmar (Burma) border, to reveal the ways in which borders as rivers can provide new insights into socio‐natural bordering processes. In particular, I illustrate a range of ways local residents are caring for a river‐border, and how even an ‘exploding’ or ‘hungry’ river‐border can be a fragile space for care and for non‐state actors to enact the border ‘differently’ in everyday life.

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The fence ‘didn’t work’: the mundane engagements and material practices of state-led development in China’s Danjiangkou Reservoir

Cited by 3 publications

References 50 publications

Beyond state politics in Asia's transboundary rivers: Revisiting two decades of critical hydropolitics

Beyond state politics in Asia's transboundary rivers: Revisiting two decades of critical hydropolitics

Convivial fences? Property, ‘right to wildlife’ and the need for redistributive justice in South African conservation

Caring for the river‐border: Struggles and opportunities along the Salween River‐border

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