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Third International Workshop on Hydro-Hegemony, LSE, May 2007 Do not cite without author’s permission.
RESISTANCE AND RESISTANCE AND COUNTERCOUNTER--HEGEMONY IN HEGEMONY IN
TRANSBOUNDARY RIVER BASINSTRANSBOUNDARY RIVER BASINSIII Workshop on Hydro-Hegemony
Third International Workshop on Hydro-Hegemony, LSE, May 2007 Do not cite without author’s permission.
A POLITICAL SPECTRUMUp in the scaleUp in the scale• More confrontational (anti-status
quo)• More organised• More articulated• More active/activism• More challenging• More strategic/programmatic• More sustained/legitimated• More audible • More long-term targets• More transformative potential
Down the scaleDown the scale• Legitimacy• Common sense• Sanctioned discourse• Quiescence• Compliance• Conformism• Passivity• ‘Catch-all’ arguments
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BEYOND POLARITIESBEYOND POLARITIES
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MOMENT OF COUNTER-HEGEMONY
What can be defined as the Moment of Counter Hydro-Hegemony?
Redistribution of water resources based on a truly egalitarian, rational and fair allocation? Assertion and extension of explicit water rights (for diverse users and uses)? Water classified as a public and collective asset?
OR
Erosion of the current power configuration and replacement of the current hydro-hegemon by another one, but still based on asymmetrical allocation of water resources?
IDEAL!
SHIFT
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3 – MECHANISMS OF RESISTANCE AND COUNTER-HEGEMONY
1 1 –– Violent Violent
2 2 –– FunctionalFunctional
3 3 –– Cooperative Cooperative
4 4 –– LiberatingLiberating
See Nile case
Third International Workshop on Hydro-Hegemony, LSE, May 2007 Do not cite without author’s permission.