Governmentality and the conduct of water: China's South–North Water Transfer Project

Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers - Tập 41 Số 4 - Trang 429-441 - 2016
Sarah Rogers1, Jon Barnett2, Michael Webber2, Brian Finlayson2, Mark Wang2
1Centre for Contemporary Chinese Studies University of Melbourne Parkville Victoria 3010 Australia
2School of Geography University of Melbourne Parkville Victoria 3010 Australia

Tóm tắt

Governmentality is a way of thinking about dispersed practices of governing, including attempts to render space governable. China's South–North Water Transfer (SNWT) project, the world's largest interbasin water transfer project, is a programme of government that attempts to render the distribution of water across space more governable and administrable. This article analyses English and Chinese academic, media and government documents through a governmentality lens. It aims to examine the SNWT project's machinery, mentality and spatiality, including its narrative, its constitution of objects and subjects in space, its multiple techniques of government, and its physical and administrative assemblages. In decentring the problem of the state in relation to the SNWT project we can learn much about both the politics of water and the nature of Chinese governmentalities. This article shows how the SNWT naturalises water scarcity, normalises the pre‐eminence of North China, sustains engineering over regulatory solutions and reconfigures hydrosocial relations, while also outlining the limits to and endemic conflicts within this vast programme of government.

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