Water, civilization, and power in Sudan
Subtitle: the political economy of military-Islamist state-building
By: Harry Verhoeven, University of Oxford
Series: The African studies series -- 131; African studies series (Cambridge, England) -- 131.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2015
Place of publication: New York, NY
Language: eng
Subjects: Water resources development; Government policy; Water-supply; Barrages; Dams; Economic development; Politics and government; Islam and politics
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Prologue: the inauguration of the Merowe Dam --; title: State-building, the environment and the civilisation mission --; title: Hydraulic civilisation and land of famine: the crafting of the Sudanese state and its sources of power --; title: Mashru al-Hadhari: the rise of Sudan's Al-Ingaz regime and its civilisation project --; title: The hydro-political economy of Al-Ingaz: economic salvation through "dams as development" --; title: The geopolitics of the Nile: Khartoum's dam programme and agricultural revival in the global political economy --; title: Military-Islamist state-building and its contradictions: mirages in the desert, South Sudan's secession and the new hydropolitics of the Nile --; title: Conclusion: water, civilisation and power --; title: Appendix: elite interviews and in-depth testimonies.