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Mollinga, Peter (2019) 'Cultural Political Economy and Critical Water Studies: An Introduction to the Special Themed Section.' Water Alternatives, 12 (3). pp. 788-801.

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Abstract

The attraction of taking a Cultural Political Economy (CPE) perspective in the analysis of questions related to water use, management and governance is threefold: (i) CPE is an effort to capture the multidimensionality of social dynamics by emphasising the cultural dimension of political economy and then investigating the internal relations of these different dimensions; (ii) CPE addresses both the structure and agency dimensions of social reproduction and transformation; it proposes a particular (strategic-relational) way of studying the two in an interlinked manner; (iii) the object of (most) CPE analysis – the state – is highly relevant to water studies, as the state is a, if not the, central actor in water governance, with state action as regards water resources increasingly set in the context of globalisation and neoliberalisation.

Item Type: Journal Article
SOAS Departments & Centres: Departments and Subunits > Department of Development Studies
ISSN: 19650175
Copyright Statement: This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike license which permits any non commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author(s) and source are credited. see https: //creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/fr/deed.en
Date Deposited: 06 Feb 2023 15:07
URI: https://eprints.soas.ac.uk/id/eprint/38757

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