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> The Power of Water:
> Landscape, Water and the State in Southern & Eastern Africa
> 28-29 March 2007
>
> An interdisciplinary conference
> being held in the Wolfson Centre, Main Library, George Square,
> Edinburgh
> sponsored by:Centre of African Studies,University of Edinburgh.
>
> For more information about attending
> and registration for this conference please visit
> http://www.cas.ed.ac.uk or contact Grace Owens at CAS.
> Tel. +44(0)131 6503878 or email: [log in to unmask]
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>
> Speakers:
> Dr David Mosse
> Dr Joann McGregor
> Dr Lyn Schumaker
> Professor Terence Ranger
>
>
> The conference will focus on the following three themes in order to
> explore the interrelationship between practices and discourses of
> water, landscape and the state in southern Africa.
> a) Water, landscape and the past
> b) The urbanisation of water
> c) Water, governance and development intervention
>
> Although it has become commonplace to hear about pending threats to
> the world?s most critical natural resource ? water, in recent years
> there has been a growing interest in the social, cultural and
> political roles of water. This broadening of interest beyond the
> limitations of hydrology, public engineering and irrigation
> planning has been reflected in a proliferation of works dealing
> with the complex relationships of water with society, culture,
> history and political organisation. David Mosse?s book The Rule of
> Water broke new ground by exploring the complexity of historically
> and culturally situated inter-relationships between irrigation, ?
> the elementary facts of ecology? and social and political
> organisation in India. Taking forward this carefully picked path
> between the pitfalls of environmental determinism and the extremes
> of social constructivism, the aim of this conference is to use
> water as a ?conceptual lubricant? to explore the inter-linkages
> between practices and discourses of the postcolonial state, and the
> cultural, environmental and experiential aspects of landscape. We
> seek to explore how practices and discourses of water and landscape
> are inevitably tied up with, and invoke, different ideas,
> imaginations and perceptions of what the postcolonial state is,
> should and could be in southern Africa.
>
>
> CONFERENCE OUTLINE
> The Power of Water: Landscape, Water and the State in Southern and
> Eastern Africa
> March 28-29, 2007
>
> Wolfson Centre, Main Library, George Square, University of Edinburgh
>
> Wednesday 28th March 2007
> Introduction
>
> 9.00 ? 9.15 Paul Nugent & Joost Fontein
>
> Theme one: Water, landscape & the past
>
> 9.15 ? 10.00 Keynote address Joann McGregor (Chair: Paul Nugent)
> Claiming the Zambezi. Reflections on rivers and history.
>
> 10.00 ? 10.45 Session 1 ? Water and the African past (Chair: Alan
> Barnard)
> i) Munyaradzi Manyanga ? Debating the influence of water resources
> on Pre-historic settlements patterns over the past 1000 years in
> the Shashe-Limpopo Basin, southern Zimbabwe.
>
>
> 11.15-12.45 Session 2 ? African Waters (Chair: Joost Fontein)
> i) Joseph Mujere - The Marumbi Cult: Gender and the Interface
> between rainmaking and the politics of water in Gutu.
>
> ii) Gerald Mazarire ? The Chishanga waters have their owners: water
> Politics and Development in Southern Zimbabwe
>
>
> 13.45 ? 15.15 Session 3 ? Colonial waters (Chair: John McCracken)
> i) D.Hughes ? The Art of Belonging: Whites writing Landscape in
> savannah Africa.
>
> ii) S. Nakayama ? Economy as Place-making: The urban/Rural
> Dichotomy in Lake Malawi Fishery.
>
>
> Theme two: The urbanisation of water
>
> 15.30 ? 16.15 Keynote address Lyn Schumaker (Chair: Sara Rich Dorman)
> Slimes and Death-dealing Dambos: Water, Industry and the garden
> city on Zambia?s Copperbelt.
>
> 16.30 ?18.00 Session 1 ? Privatisation of Water (Chair: Tom Molony)
> i) M.Musemwa ? Turning off the privatisation tap: From private to
> public water utility in the city of Bulawayo, Zimbabwe: 1894-1925.
>
> ii) A.Von Schnitzler ? The properties of water: Operation Gcin?
> amanzi and the question of post-apartheid citizenship.
>
>
> Thursday 29th March 2007
>
> Theme three: Water, governance & development intervention
>
> 9.00- 9.45 Keynote address: David Mosse (Chair: James Smith)
> The cultural politics of water in south India
>
> 9.45 ?11.15 Session 1 ? Nation & Irrigation (Chair: Rebecca Marsland)
> i) M. Ersten ? Depending on a fairly rigid schedule of operations:
> History and Context of the Mwea irrigation scheme.
>
> ii) M.Bender ? Water is Life: Developing water and the nation on
> Kilimanjaro, Tanzania, 1950-1975.
>
> iii) S.Struck & D.Bradley ? Predict settlement Behaviour and Plan
> water before allocating land: settling Pastoralists and Access to
> Water in south-west Uganda.
>
> 11.45 ?13.00 Session 2 ? Governing and Legislating for water
> (Chair: Olga Morawczynski)
> i) E. Mufema: Old wine in new bottles: Water governance and
> development Interventions in Zimbabwe 1980s- 2000.
>
> ii) L.Swatuk ? Mainstreaming Politics: A critical Interpretation
> of ?benefit sharing? in Transboundary water resource governance.
>
> Closing remarks
>
> 14.00 ? 15.00 Professor Terence Ranger
>
>
>
>
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>
>
> Dr Joost Fontein
> British Academy Research Fellow
> Social Anthropology/Centre of African Studies
> University of Edinburgh
>
> CAS Annual Conference:
> The Power of Water: Landscape, Water and the State in Southern Africa
> Wed. 28 and Thurs. 29 March 2007
>
>
>
>
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