Qinhong Xu, CASAS’ member, has just published an article in the Journal of Peasant Studies with Rutgerd Boelens & Gert Jan Veldwisch
Abstract: The article investigates the evolution of rural water governance in the People’s Republic of China through a historical review of its water governance transformations, including the ideology, institutions, and discourses. It is argued that the evolution of agricultural water management and rural drinking water development in China is inextricably linked to addressing political legitimacy. Rural water governance, is shown to be intertwined with state identity and citizenship formation, in order to produce and control hydrosocial territorial objects and subjects.
Read the full text: https://doi.org/10.1080/03066150.2023.2261860
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The Collective of Agrarian Scholar-Activists from the Global South (CASAS) is a community of Scholar-Activists working in critical agrarian studies.