Sökning: "hydro-hegemony"
Hittade 5 uppsatser innehållade ordet hydro-hegemony.
1. “We are dealing here with a hydroelectric dam, we are not building a nuclear plant” : A case study of securitization processes in water cooperation contexts
Kandidat-uppsats, Lunds universitet/Statsvetenskapliga institutionenSammanfattning : In 2011, Ethiopia began the construction of the “Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam” (GERD) in the Blue Nile and in 2020 the first filling took place which escalated tensions in the shared waters and provoked concerns from Egypt and Sudan. The aim of the thesis is to broaden the understanding of water sharing issues by conducting a case study of the GERD developments between 2011 and the beginning of 2022 with a focus on securitization processes. LÄS MER
2. Power Relations in the Mekong River Basin - A look into the discourse of the Mekong River Commission
Kandidat-uppsats, Lunds universitet/Institutionen för kulturgeografi och ekonomisk geografiSammanfattning : This study concerns itself with power assymetries between states as well as cooperative arrangements within the Mekong River Basin. Transboundary frameworks for cooperation are often faced with challenges in harmonizing policy in the face of competing interests and unequal power relations between states and stakeholders. LÄS MER
3. Lord of the Nile : Explaining how the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam has affected Ethiopian Foreign Relations
Master-uppsats, Linnéuniversitetet/Institutionen för statsvetenskap (ST)Sammanfattning : The aim of this essay is to examine how the foreign relationships of Ethiopia has developed as a result of the construction and filling of the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam between 2011 and 2021. This essay therefore asks: How has Ethiopia’s foreign relations with the EU, Egypt, Sudan and China changed, have those relationships become more conflictual or cooperative, and how could potential changes be explained using a constructivist perspective? Constructivism is used as a means of explaining changes in the statements, positions and policies of these countries through concepts such as “norms” and “identities”. LÄS MER
4. Environmentalism of the occupied: A slow violence perspective on the West Bank’s deteriorating agricultural sector, and an overview of Palestinian agro-resistance in the struggle towards food sovereignty
Master-uppsats, Lunds universitet/HumanekologiSammanfattning : This thesis explores what it means to struggle for food sovereignty under belligerent occupation. It makes the argument that the deliberate suppression of agriculture in the West Bank (occupied Palestinian territories) and ensuing deterioration of food sovereignty can be understood as an example of “slow violence,” further entrenching the settler-colonial occupation of Palestine. LÄS MER
5. Power use in water distribution under Islamic State : testing the Framework of Hydro-Hegemony on the case of Manbij, Syria
Master-uppsats, SLU/Dept. of Urban and Rural DevelopmentSammanfattning : This research looks at hydropolitics under Islamic State (IS). The research departs from the belief that power asymmetries determine to a significant extent the political distributional issue of ‘who gets what, when, where and why’ and who is left out. LÄS MER
