title: Ethnographic conversations with Wittfogel’s ghost: An introduction
creator: Ley, Lukas
creator: Krause, Franz
subject: ddc-300
subject: 300 Social sciences
subject: ddc-320
subject: 320 Political science
subject: ddc-390
subject: 390 Customs, etiquette, folklore
description: This theme issue re-engages the ghost of Wittfogel in ethnographically grounded conversations around the imbrication of water, power, and infrastructure. It examines social and political relations in ways that take their tensions and correspondences with water seriously, as Wittfogel did half a century ago, but in a less monolithic and totalizing manner. Instead, the contributions pay attention to the situated, partial, multiple, and open-ended encounters that (un)make these links. Together, the papers collected in this theme issue build a critical conversation around the role of water in configuring and reproducing power. Its major threads are the construction of authority through water, the social complexity of water relations, and the interrelationships between water, infrastructure, and political rule.
publisher: Sage Publications
date: 2019
type: Article
type: info:eu-repo/semantics/article
type: NonPeerReviewed
format: application/pdf
identifier: https://archiv.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/volltextserverhttps://archiv.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/volltextserver/34775/1/10.1177_2399654419873677.pdf
identifier: DOI:10.11588/heidok.00034775
identifier: https://doi.org/10.1177/2399654419873677
identifier: urn:nbn:de:bsz:16-heidok-347754
identifier:   Ley, Lukas ; Krause, Franz  (2019) Ethnographic conversations with Wittfogel’s ghost: An introduction.  Environment and Planning C: Politics and Space, 37 (7).  pp. 1151-1160.  ISSN 2399-6544 (Druck-Ausg.); 2399-6552 (Online-Ausg.)     
relation: https://archiv.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/volltextserver/34775/
rights: info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess
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language: eng