Christine Bichsel

Conflict Transformation in Central Asia

Irrigation disputes in the Ferghana Valley

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book deals with irrigation disputes and conflict transformation in Central Asia. It analyzes aid projects which seek to transform inter-community conflicts between Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan and Tajikistan in the Ferghana Valley, addressing both the practicalities of aid and the discourses within which notions of these practicalities are formed.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 184
• Erscheinungstermin: 4. März 2011
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 10mm
• Gewicht: 268g
• ISBN-13: 9780415620048
• ISBN-10: 041562004X
• Artikelnr.: 54571856

Autorenporträt

Christine Bichsel is a research fellow at the Department of Geography, University of Berne, Switzerland. Her research interests include development studies and studies of peace and conflict.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction 2. Seeing like a Project: Three Cases in the Ferghana
Valley 3. Sources of Thought: The Ideational Background 4. The Way of the
Water: Irrigation and Conflict 5. White Beards and Active Citizens:
Institutions for Conflict Transformation 6. The Crucible of Harmony:
Violence and Politics 7. Trouble on the Margins: States, Borders and People
8. Conclusion