Waterpower: Politics and the Geography of Water Provision
Waterpower: Politics and the Geography of Water Provision
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10.1080/00045608.2011.560053
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2011-03
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J. Agnew
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J. Agnew
人们经常说，获得饮用水是21世纪具有决定性意义的世界危机。这种论据通常要么是直接的环境制约，要么是关于“政治”如何决定结果的各种极权主义观点。实际政治的代理空间很小，甚至根本没有。自然地理学家和人文地理学家往往对民主政治解决供水地理等“危机”的可能性不屑一顾，部分原因是科学专门知识的观点贬低了公众对水质和供水等“技术性”问题决策的参与。这样的解雇也与对政治的更广泛的诋毁有很大关系。政治(政治商议、谈判和妥协的艺术)需要为其批评者和许多从业者辩护。展示世界各地的政治如何在管理水问题方面发挥作用，并确定水问题对政治构成的挑战，这对那些只能将不可避免的破坏或极权主义政治灵丹妙药想象为“本世纪危机”的人提供了反驳。
Access to potable water is frequently said to be the defining world crisis of the twenty-first century. The argument is usually framed in terms of either direct environmental constraints or various totalistic views of how “the political” determines outcomes. There is little or no scope for the agency of practical politics. Both physical and human geographers tend to be dismissive of the possibilities of democratic politics ever resolving “crises” such as those of the geography of water provision, in part because of views of scientific expertise that devalue popular participation in decisions about “technical” matters such as water quality and distribution. Such dismissal also has much to do with a more generalized denigration of politics. Politics (the art of political deliberation, negotiation, and compromise) needs defending against its critics and many of its practitioners. Showing how politics is at work around the world in managing water problems and identifying the challenges that water problems pose for politics provides a retort to those who can only envisage inevitable destruction or a totalistic political panacea as the outcomes of “the crisis of the century.”