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Water Politics and Political Culture
Onur Oktem
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Hardback. Water Politics and Political Culture Num Pages: 194 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DVT; 1QFE; JPA; JPB; RNFD; TQSW. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 155 x 17. Weight in Grams: 490.
This book presents an analysis of the main traits of the Turkish political culture and articulates some of the most important deeply embedded social qualifications of political life in Turkey. It reveals that when water management is historically and socially shaped by heavily technical knowledge systems of engineering it becomes a particularly useful tool for various political interests. The book analyses how Turkish freshwater management is socially constructed as both an engineering discourse and a paternalistic bureaucratic transaction. Such a construction stands in stark contrast to the water management discourse of the European Water Framework Directive (WFD), the European Unions ... Read more
This book presents an analysis of the main traits of the Turkish political culture and articulates some of the most important deeply embedded social qualifications of political life in Turkey. It reveals that when water management is historically and socially shaped by heavily technical knowledge systems of engineering it becomes a particularly useful tool for various political interests. The book analyses how Turkish freshwater management is socially constructed as both an engineering discourse and a paternalistic bureaucratic transaction. Such a construction stands in stark contrast to the water management discourse of the European Water Framework Directive (WFD), the European Unions ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Springer International Publishing AG Switzerland
Number of pages
194
Condition
New
Number of Pages
182
Place of Publication
Cham, Switzerland
ISBN
9783319214788
SKU
V9783319214788
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