Fluid Modernity: The Politics of Water in the Middle East

by Gilberto Conde

Fluid Modernity offers an innovative, encompassing, historical grasp of the politics of water in the Middle East in the context of modern capitalism and world politics. Drawing upon conceptions of power by Foucault and Agamben, it examines how water, through its modern capitalist production, is transformed into a water apparatus that binds people to power. In trans-boundary watercourses, states get involved in the formation of international governmentalities...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1032412259
• ISBN13: 9781032412252
• Release Date: October 2022
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 120 Pages
• Weight: 0.68 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.5" x 8.5"