eprintid: 34775
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type: article
metadata_visibility: show
creators_name: Ley, Lukas
creators_name: Krause, Franz
title: Ethnographic conversations with Wittfogel’s ghost: An introduction
ispublished: pub
subjects: ddc-300
subjects: ddc-320
subjects: ddc-390
divisions: i-100700
keywords: Water, state, anthropology, ethnography, Wittfogel
note: Dieser Beitrag ist aufgrund einer (DFG-geförderten) Allianz bzw. Nationallizenz frei zugänglich. *** This publication is freely accessible due to an Alliance licence and a national licence (funded by the DFG, German Research Foundation) respectively.
abstract: 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.
date: 2019
date_type: published
publisher: Sage Publications
id_scheme: DOI
id_number: 10.11588/heidok.00034775
official_url: https://doi.org/10.1177/2399654419873677
ppn_swb: 1887872191
own_urn: urn:nbn:de:bsz:16-heidok-347754
language: eng
bibsort: LEYLUKASETHNOGRAPH20191113
full_text_status: public
publication: Environment and Planning C: Politics and Space
volume: 37
number: 7
place_of_pub: Los Angeles
pagerange: 1151-1160
pages: 10
issn: 2399-6544 (Druck-Ausg.); 2399-6552 (Online-Ausg.)
edition: Zweitveröffentlichung
citation:   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.)     
document_url: https://archiv.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/volltextserver/34775/1/10.1177_2399654419873677.pdf