scholarly journals Reconceptualizing hegemony: the circle of hydro-hegemony

Water Policy ◽  
2015 ◽  
Vol 18 (2) ◽  
pp. 401-418 ◽  
Author(s):  
Filippo Menga

This paper proposes a partial reconceptualization and a redesign of the Framework of Hydro-Hegemony, an analytical tool devised to study how power, hegemony, and power asymmetries can influence transboundary water politics. This is done by presenting the original Circle of Hydro-Hegemony (CHH), an analytical framework that places the neo-Gramscian notion of hegemony at the centre of its structure, to illustrate how various forms of power are connective in the function of hegemony. Following a theoretical discussion on how the concepts of power and hegemony can interact, the case of the Aral Sea basin in Central Asia provides a practical application of the CHH to transboundary water politics.

2009 ◽  
Vol 33 (2) ◽  
pp. 134-149 ◽  
Author(s):  
Manzoor Qadir ◽  
Andrew D. Noble ◽  
Asad S. Qureshi ◽  
Raj K. Gupta ◽  
Tulkun Yuldashev ◽  
...  

2019 ◽  
Vol 6 (3) ◽  
pp. 238-243
Author(s):  
M. H. Glantz

The region historically referred to as Soviet Central Asia includes the 5 Central Asian Republics (CARs) of the Former Soviet Union (FSU): Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan, Tajikistan and Kyrgyzstan. Their political status changed drastically when the Soviet Union collapsed in 1991 and they became independent republics. Since the early 1990s, Central Asian leaders have referred on occasion to neighboring Afghanistan as the sixth CAR. In fact, it does occupy 14% of the Aral Sea Basin and its mountains supply about 15% of streamflow to the region’s mighty Amu Darya River that used to flow into Central Asia’s Aral Sea.


2019 ◽  
Vol 51 ◽  
pp. 101693 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jiaoyou Zhang ◽  
Yaning Chen ◽  
Zhi Li ◽  
Jinxi Song ◽  
Gonghuan Fang ◽  
...  

2012 ◽  
Vol 28 (3) ◽  
pp. 419-432 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jakob Granit ◽  
Anders Jägerskog ◽  
Andreas Lindström ◽  
Gunilla Björklund ◽  
Andrew Bullock ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Aral Sea ◽  

2007 ◽  
Vol 67 (3) ◽  
pp. 357-370 ◽  
Author(s):  
Philippe Sorrel ◽  
Speranta-Maria Popescu ◽  
Stefan Klotz ◽  
Jean-Pierre Suc ◽  
Hedi Oberhänsli

AbstractHigh-resolution pollen analyses (∼ 50 yr) from sediment cores retrieved at Chernyshov Bay in the NW Large Aral Sea record shifts in vegetational development from subdesertic to steppe vegetation in the Aral Sea basin during the late Holocene. Using pollen data to quantify climatic parameters, we reconstruct and date for the first time significant changes in moisture conditions in Central Asia during the past 2000 yr. Cold and arid conditions prevailed between ca. AD 0 and 400, AD 900 and 1150, and AD 1500 and 1650 with the extension of xeric vegetation dominated by steppe elements. These intervals are characterized by low winter and summer mean temperatures and low mean annual precipitation (Pmm < 250 mm/yr). Conversely, the most suitable climate conditions occurred between ca. AD 400 and 900, and AD 1150 and 1450, when steppe vegetation was enriched by plants requiring moister conditions (Pmm ∼ 250–500 mm/yr) and some trees developed. Our results are fairly consistent with other late Holocene records from the eastern Mediterranean region and the Middle East, showing that regional rainfall in Central Asia is predominantly controlled by the eastern Mediterranean cyclonic system when the North Atlantic Oscillation (NAO) is in a negative phase.


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