Seminars
Hydro-Hegemony Convenors: King’s College London, London Water Research Group, Stockholm International Water Institute (SIWI) and the Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency (Sida)
This seminar will provide analytical tools to enable progress to be made by those responsible for projecting the concerns of individual riparians. It will also help those who have been immersed in the confusing world of trying to interpret relations over shared waters in circumstances of asymmetric power relations. Very inadequate theory has been developed in the fields of international relations and international law. There has been endless frustration for all concerned with transboundary water relations. The concepts of hydro-hegemony developed in the recent past have rejuvenated an element of the social science community concerned with transboundary relations. These ideas are beginning to impact the wider discourse
on who gets what in transboundary settings. The seminar will present the latest theorising on hydro-hegemony and counter-hegemony. It will show that just as history is written by the victor, so transboundary relations are directed by the basin hegemon. The hegemonised have to achieve a new basis for engagement which is much more related to power than principle. The first part of the seminar will deal with these determining contextual discursive issues. The second part will use the analytical frameworks of hegemony and counter-hegemony to reveal the nature of transboundary relations in four river basins through the contributions of key riparians.
Friday 25 August
Photo: Mats Lannerstad
Thursday 24 August
Programme
Norra Latin, Room 253
Poster Sessions General Information
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Special Sessions
13:00 Lunch 14:00 Panel Discussion: Hydro-Hegemony on the Ganges Mediator: Dr. Anthony Turton, Council of Scientific and Industrial Research, South Africa Discussants: • Dr. David Grey, The World Bank (tbc) • Dr. Jerome Delli-Priscoli, US Army Corps of Engineers, Institute for Water Resources, USA (tbc) Panellists: • Dr. Dipak Gyawali, Former Minister of Water, Nepal • Dr. Daanish Mustafa, King’s College London, UK • Mr. Narasimah Rao Chilukuri, National Level Monitor under the Ministry of Rural Development of the Government of India • Prof. Habibur Rahman, Bangladesh University of Environmental Engineering, Bangladesh (tbc) 15:15 Closing Remarks Dr. Anders Jägerskog, SIWI Prof. John Anthony Allan, King’s College London, UK 15:30 End of Seminar
Saturday 26 August
Chairs: Dr. Anders Jägerskog, SIWI, and Prof. John Anthony Allan, King’s College London, UK 09:00 Introductory Framework • Introduction. Dr. Anders Jägerskog, SIWI, and Prof. John Anthony Allan, King’s College London, UK • Power, Hegemony and Water Conflict Analysis. Dr. Mark Zeitoun, King’s College London, UK • Multiple Layers of Hydro-Hegemony. Mr. Jeroen Warner, Wageningen University, The Netherlands • Counter Hydro-Hegemony in the Nile River Basin. Ms. Ana Cascao, King’s College London, UK • Hydro-Hegemony and International Water Law. Mr. Melvin Woodhouse, UNESCO Centre for Water Law, Dundee University, UK • Question and Answer Period 10:45 Coffee Break 11:00 Panel Discussion: Hydro-Hegemony on the Jordan Mediator: Dr. Mark Zeitoun, King’s College London, UK Discussants and Panellists: Representatives from the respective states (tbc)
Thursday 24 August, 09:00–15:30